The Unknown Child and the Dragons
YYH/IY crossover with a few X-1999 characters
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or Inu Yasha or X. I do not own the children of the Inu Yasha characters either. They belong to my friends. I own the Yu Yu Hakusho and X-1999 characters' children.
Chapter 1 (15 years after the Prologue)
The warm morning sun shone into a small Tokyo apartment, falling gently on the only 2 occupants in the bedroom still sleeping. One occupant was a 14 year old girl with long black hair and, though you couldn't see them while she slept, bright emerald eyes. The other occupant was what appeared to be a small stuffed animal, a pink dragon lying on the pillow wrapped up in the young girl's hair. Then the pink dragon began to wake up. It wasn't a stuffed animal at all, but a Spirit Beast. The little dragon stretched and went to work trying to wake up her mistress. As always the young girl kept rolling over on her side, muttering, "It's too early Chi. Go back to sleep." Chi finally had enough and lightly bit the girl's nose. That got her up and really pissed off. "Damn it Chi you didn't have to do that! I'm up, I'm up!" The dragon simply answered "Chi, chi" and went to find her mistress's school uniform. "Man, Baa-san must have told her to do that," mumbled the girl.
The young girl, Sakura Urameshi, was Genkai's latest pupil. Well, she was the daughter of Baa-san's last pupil, who was stuck somewhere in Makai at the moment. Sakura had never met her father or her brother for that matter since she was born after they were all banished to Makai. Sakura really wanted to meet her father, since everyone said she looked like him and even acted like him sometimes, according to Baa-san. For the most part Sakura was a pretty quite person, unless you got her really pissed off. Then even she couldn't control her powers. Of course after she calmed down again, she would get very depressed, since she hated not having control of her powers. That was the problem with being one of the only surviving members of an almost extinct race of demons – no one knew anything about her powers. All she knew was that she could summon dragons, the souls of universe as one dragon told her, but she didn't know how or why she could. She liked the dragons though; they were all so kind to her. She could tell them anything and they would never tell anyone about it. They were also very protective of her. She always had at least one dragon if not more close by in case she got into any trouble. The dragons were the only friends she had. Well, not the only friends...
Sakura finally decided to get out of bed and get ready for school. Chi had found Sakura's uniform and carried it over to her. Sakura and Chi had been born together. According to Baa-san, Sakura was clutching Chi's egg when she was born. The egg hatched on Sakura's first birthday and Chi came out. She named the little dragon Chi because that's all it could say, "Chi." When she had finally gotten herself ready to head out to school; she stopped to look at the picture sitting in her bedroom window. The picture was of her and her mother Keiko when she was five. It was taken before the attack...
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(Sakura 5 years old)
Sakura and Keiko were sitting on the bus on the way to see Genkai. Even at such a young age Sakura's powers were incredibly strong. The only explanation anyone could give was that it was caused by the demon blood that flowed in Sakura's veins. Sakura liked to go visit Baa-san since Baa- san was the only person besides her mother who didn't look at her like a complete freak. The kids at school picked on Sakura terribly because of her weird powers. Sakura hated going to school for that very reason. She had no friends except for Chi and Puu, her father's Spirit Beast, who lived with Baa-san.
They were almost to Baa-san's when it happened. A group of Dark Knights attacked the bus, killing everyone in sight. Keiko held Sakura as close to her as she could, trying to keep the monsters from seeing her daughter. Keiko knew that they were after Sakura. The Knights had been after the two since before Sakura was born. However it didn't work. A Knight caught site of the Urameshi women, grinning evilly at the sight of his prey. As the Knight closed in for the kill, Keiko clung to Sakura, who began to glow a soft pink. Then the light around Sakura grew and enclosed the whole bus. Any Knight touched by Sakura's aura disintegrated immediately. However before the last Knight turned to dust, he killed the driver, sending the bus off the road and down the side of the mountain. When the bus finally settled at the foot of the mountain, the only survivors were Keiko and Sakura. However, the accident had left Keiko in a coma. Sakura went to live with Keiko's aunt and uncle after that.
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Sakura put down the picture, wiped the tears that were beginning to form and checked her watch. Shit! She had to go or she'd be late. She grabbed her lunch, said goodbye to Chi, and raced outside the door. Sakura was glad she had already made the trip to school; she really would have been late if she didn't know her way. As Sakura dashed off to school, a boy about her age sat on the roof of her building. "Hn. She'll never change." The boy was Ryu, a 14 year old fire demon Sakura had rescued after he fell through a rip in the barrier between Makai and Ningenkai.
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(Sakura and Ryu age 9)
Sakura had just moved in with Genkai a few weeks before. She had been staying with Keiko's aunt and uncle in Kyoto, but neither of them treated Sakura kindly. They thought of her as some type of devil spawn. When her powers became to much for them to handle, they finally sent her to Genkai, the person she was originally suppose to live with if anything happened to Keiko. Sakura had also finally gotten sick of always being picked on, so she fought back, literally. If any one said anything about her, she would beat the shit out of them. So now instead of being made fun of, she was the most feared kid around. So Genkai had taken her out of school so she wouldn't kill anyone.
Sakura ran through the woods behind Genkai's temple. An Evergreen Dragon had told her about a young boy in the forests that was badly injured. Sakura wouldn't have care had the dragon not told her that the boy had 3 eyes. Sakura finally found the boy the dragon told her about. He was covered in blood and bruises. His normal eyes were closed but his Jagan was open, looking around at what was probably a strange environment to him. Sakura felt sad for this boy lying on the ground broken and bruised. So Sakura summoned a Wind Dragon to carry the boy back to the temple. "Baa-san will know how to help you," she whispered to the little demon. "Only a demon would have three eyes," Sakura told herself. And with that she led the dragon carrying the young demon back to the temple.
When Ryu finally woke up, he was in a strange room. He tried to remember what had happened to him. He remembered that he and his father were out training when the king's lackeys attacked them. He remembered being separated from his father and the stronger demons cornering him at a cliff. He remembered falling off the cliff and then nothing. As Ryu tried to figure out where he was, the door to the room opened and a young girl around his age walked in. She was small, like him, with long jet black hair and beautiful emerald eyes. She smiled at him and said "You're awake. I'm glad."
Ryu stared at the little girl in front of him, wondering who she was and where he was.
"You're a demon, right?" the girl asked him.
"Yes, I am," he answered her.
"My name is Sakura and I'm part demon," she told him.
"I'm Ryu," he replied. Ryu wondered why he was telling this Sakura
his name.
"What kind of demon are you?"
Ryu didn't like all the questions she was asking him. He was afraid that he was being tricked by a lackey of the king or something. As if reading his mind, Sakura informed him that he wasn't in Makai anymore. This was Ningenkai and most people here didn't have 3 eyes.
"So this is Ningenkai?" Ryu asked her.
"Yep," she answered.
"I didn't know there were any part demons here. I thought they were all sent to Makai."
At Ryu's last remark, his new companion became very sad looking. "There aren't any other demons, part or full, left here. I'm the only one. I was born after everyone got sent to Makai. Papa and my big brother are there. Mama's in a coma because of a bus accident. All I have is Baa-san now." She lowered her eyes so Ryu wouldn't see her cry.
Now Ryu felt bad for making the poor thing sad. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you."
Sakura looked up at Ryu. She wiped her eyes and said "It's nothing. I've never told anyone this." She smiled at him and he smiled back.
~She's really cute,~ thought Ryu.
The two children talked for the rest of the day, watched over by Genkai. ~I'm glad she finally has a friend,~ thought the older woman. With that Genkai left the two children alone to get dinner ready.
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Using his Jagan, Ryu watched over Sakura as she ran to school. Ryu was a fairly average height by human standards. He looked like his father, with short, spiky black hair and crimson eyes. He also had his father's taste in clothes: black and lots of it. He had on black jeans with black biker boots, a white t-shirt and a black leather jacket he most likely stole from a human. He, however, didn't have to wear a headband to cover his Jagan. He could will it to disappear when he wasn't using it. Ryu also had another interesting power – he could control both fire and ice. No one could explain why, not even his father, Hiei, and it was probably because of his unusual power that the king's lackeys had been after him that day.
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(Higurashi Shrine)
Leiko and Kazuo Higurashi hated going to school. They hated it so much, because the 14 year old twins of Kagome and Inu-Yasha were very different from the rest of their classmates. They were hanyous, like their parents, and could travel into the past through a well in the shrine they called home. The time travel however, was not the reason they didn't fit in, they didn't let anyone know about that. The 'problem' was that Leiko looked almost exactly like her father with white hair and gold eyes, and while Kazuo did too, he had black hair and brown eyes like his mother, and both of them also had their father's dog ears, Leiko's white, and Kazuo's black, which they had to hide when they went out in public. Each twin also always carried their guardian swords everywhere they went. Both of the swords were made of a fang from Inu-Yasha and a fang from whichever child the sword belonged to. Leiko's sword was called Kigaisaiga, and Kazuo's was Fushisaiga, and keeping said swords with them was mandatory.
The two had actually just come from the past, bringing back with them their two friends, who were more like cousins to them, Shina and Kanaye. Shina and Kanaye were the children of Sango and Miroku. Shina looked exactly like her mother, except she had her father's blue eyes and heightened sex drive. Her brother, Kanaye, a year older, was pretty much a clone of Miroku with slightly longer hair and freckles. He also had his father's 'affections' for the opposite sex. All 4 teenagers were on their way to school, they had all transferred in the trimester before, getting kicked out of their old school for being 'troublemakers'. It wasn't their fault they were always being hunted by the agents of Reikai, what could they do but fight back?
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(The Kuwabara Residence)
Hina Kuwabara raced out the door, yelling goodbye to her father. She was so late, and what was worse, she had classroom duties today. Hina was a very tall 15 year old girl now. Her long, orange and turquoise-streaked hair was tied up in a very messy bun. She was good student, simply because she didn't want to disappoint her father. He wouldn't yell or anything if she got bad grades. It's just she didn't like the sad look he got in his eyes. They made her feel like a 2 year old again.
Hina was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't notice someone was walking in front of her until she nearly knocked the poor kid over. However, Hina had really good reflexes from playing on the girl's basketball team that she was able to catch the younger boy before he fell. "You ok Touya-kun?" she asked the 14 year old boy.
"Yeah Hina-chan I'm ok." Touya Minamino was the youngest of the Minamino family. His short, light blue hair was done up in punk spikes and his amethyst eyes looked slightly dull. He was the top student in his class, like his father always was before him. He and Hina went to the same school, Nadeshiko Academy. It was a private high school and junior high combined that was home to many of the richer people's children. Hina and Touya were both able to get in on scholarships and with some money saved up by both families. "Late for classroom duties again Hina-chan?" Touya asked the older girl.
"Shut up man. You know I hate getting up this early. I wish the teachers wouldn't give me classroom duty the first day of the new trimester." "Then shouldn't you get going?" he asked her again. Hina looked her watch, screamed some kind of profanity, and ran at full speed to get to school. Touya laughed and continued walking to school.
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Sakura was walking down the halls of Nadeshiko Academy, looking for her first class. A girl about her age walked up to her and asked,
"You lost?"
"Yeah," she answered.
"Come on homeroom is this way," directed the young girl.
"Thanks," Sakura replied.
"Oh by the way, I'm Kaori Sumergai. And you are?"
Sakura looked at Kaori and said, "Sakura Urameshi." Kaori was a little
taller than Sakura with shoulder length dark brown hair and light
brown eyes. She smiled at Sakura sweetly, which put Sakura at ease.
"Maybe it won't be so bad here," she thought as Kaori lead her to
their homeroom.
"Looks we're in the same class," commented Kaori.
"Seems so," replied Sakura.
"Hey may I call you Sakura-chan?" Kaori asked her as they each took
seats in the back of the room.
"Sure, I'd love it."
"Great!" Squealed Kaori. "And you can call me Kaori-chan."
"Ok," Sakura happily said. She now had a new friend. Maybe Tokyo
wasn't such a bad place.
Touya entered his homeroom to see Kaori talking to a new student. "Kaori-chan, who's your new friend?" he asked her. "Didn't your mother ever teach you manners Minamino-kun? You don't say good morning anymore?" was Kaori's reply. "Since when do I need manners when talking to you? You never seemed to care before," Touya rebutted. Kaori looked at Sakura and pointed to Touya. "This is Touya Minamino-kun," she said in a matter of fact voice. "I've known him since I was little. He's a total book worm with bad manners." "I have manners, Kaori-chan," Touya yelled. "I just never use them when you're around." "Do you two ever stop fighting?" a new voice called out. Another classmate walked into the room. She had ear-length honey colored hair and baby blue eyes. She was a little taller than Touya. "Good morning Anzu-chan," Touya said quite politely. "Hey how come Anzu-chan gets a 'Good morning' but I don't?" complained Kaori. "'Cause she's a lady and you're not," Touya replied. "Minamino-kun you are so dead!" threatened Kaori.
Sakura watched the antics of her new classmates and burst out laughing. No one had ever acted this way in front of her before. "You must think we're idiots," Kaori said to Sakura. "Actually, you guys seem really close. It's refreshing. No one wanted to be near me in my old school." "Why?" asked a curious Touya. "People thought I was a freak and stayed away from me 'cause I lived in a temple. They thought I had weird powers or something." Sakura didn't know she could open up to people like she was doing now. "Oh, where are my manners? My name is Sakura Urameshi." "Well, I'm Touya Minamino and this is Anzu-chan Rei." Anzu bowed and said "Nice to meet you." "It's nice to meet all of you as well." For the first time in her life, Sakura didn't feel out of place. Maybe this is where she belonged all along.
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As always, Please Review
YYH/IY crossover with a few X-1999 characters
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or Inu Yasha or X. I do not own the children of the Inu Yasha characters either. They belong to my friends. I own the Yu Yu Hakusho and X-1999 characters' children.
Chapter 1 (15 years after the Prologue)
The warm morning sun shone into a small Tokyo apartment, falling gently on the only 2 occupants in the bedroom still sleeping. One occupant was a 14 year old girl with long black hair and, though you couldn't see them while she slept, bright emerald eyes. The other occupant was what appeared to be a small stuffed animal, a pink dragon lying on the pillow wrapped up in the young girl's hair. Then the pink dragon began to wake up. It wasn't a stuffed animal at all, but a Spirit Beast. The little dragon stretched and went to work trying to wake up her mistress. As always the young girl kept rolling over on her side, muttering, "It's too early Chi. Go back to sleep." Chi finally had enough and lightly bit the girl's nose. That got her up and really pissed off. "Damn it Chi you didn't have to do that! I'm up, I'm up!" The dragon simply answered "Chi, chi" and went to find her mistress's school uniform. "Man, Baa-san must have told her to do that," mumbled the girl.
The young girl, Sakura Urameshi, was Genkai's latest pupil. Well, she was the daughter of Baa-san's last pupil, who was stuck somewhere in Makai at the moment. Sakura had never met her father or her brother for that matter since she was born after they were all banished to Makai. Sakura really wanted to meet her father, since everyone said she looked like him and even acted like him sometimes, according to Baa-san. For the most part Sakura was a pretty quite person, unless you got her really pissed off. Then even she couldn't control her powers. Of course after she calmed down again, she would get very depressed, since she hated not having control of her powers. That was the problem with being one of the only surviving members of an almost extinct race of demons – no one knew anything about her powers. All she knew was that she could summon dragons, the souls of universe as one dragon told her, but she didn't know how or why she could. She liked the dragons though; they were all so kind to her. She could tell them anything and they would never tell anyone about it. They were also very protective of her. She always had at least one dragon if not more close by in case she got into any trouble. The dragons were the only friends she had. Well, not the only friends...
Sakura finally decided to get out of bed and get ready for school. Chi had found Sakura's uniform and carried it over to her. Sakura and Chi had been born together. According to Baa-san, Sakura was clutching Chi's egg when she was born. The egg hatched on Sakura's first birthday and Chi came out. She named the little dragon Chi because that's all it could say, "Chi." When she had finally gotten herself ready to head out to school; she stopped to look at the picture sitting in her bedroom window. The picture was of her and her mother Keiko when she was five. It was taken before the attack...
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(Sakura 5 years old)
Sakura and Keiko were sitting on the bus on the way to see Genkai. Even at such a young age Sakura's powers were incredibly strong. The only explanation anyone could give was that it was caused by the demon blood that flowed in Sakura's veins. Sakura liked to go visit Baa-san since Baa- san was the only person besides her mother who didn't look at her like a complete freak. The kids at school picked on Sakura terribly because of her weird powers. Sakura hated going to school for that very reason. She had no friends except for Chi and Puu, her father's Spirit Beast, who lived with Baa-san.
They were almost to Baa-san's when it happened. A group of Dark Knights attacked the bus, killing everyone in sight. Keiko held Sakura as close to her as she could, trying to keep the monsters from seeing her daughter. Keiko knew that they were after Sakura. The Knights had been after the two since before Sakura was born. However it didn't work. A Knight caught site of the Urameshi women, grinning evilly at the sight of his prey. As the Knight closed in for the kill, Keiko clung to Sakura, who began to glow a soft pink. Then the light around Sakura grew and enclosed the whole bus. Any Knight touched by Sakura's aura disintegrated immediately. However before the last Knight turned to dust, he killed the driver, sending the bus off the road and down the side of the mountain. When the bus finally settled at the foot of the mountain, the only survivors were Keiko and Sakura. However, the accident had left Keiko in a coma. Sakura went to live with Keiko's aunt and uncle after that.
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Sakura put down the picture, wiped the tears that were beginning to form and checked her watch. Shit! She had to go or she'd be late. She grabbed her lunch, said goodbye to Chi, and raced outside the door. Sakura was glad she had already made the trip to school; she really would have been late if she didn't know her way. As Sakura dashed off to school, a boy about her age sat on the roof of her building. "Hn. She'll never change." The boy was Ryu, a 14 year old fire demon Sakura had rescued after he fell through a rip in the barrier between Makai and Ningenkai.
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(Sakura and Ryu age 9)
Sakura had just moved in with Genkai a few weeks before. She had been staying with Keiko's aunt and uncle in Kyoto, but neither of them treated Sakura kindly. They thought of her as some type of devil spawn. When her powers became to much for them to handle, they finally sent her to Genkai, the person she was originally suppose to live with if anything happened to Keiko. Sakura had also finally gotten sick of always being picked on, so she fought back, literally. If any one said anything about her, she would beat the shit out of them. So now instead of being made fun of, she was the most feared kid around. So Genkai had taken her out of school so she wouldn't kill anyone.
Sakura ran through the woods behind Genkai's temple. An Evergreen Dragon had told her about a young boy in the forests that was badly injured. Sakura wouldn't have care had the dragon not told her that the boy had 3 eyes. Sakura finally found the boy the dragon told her about. He was covered in blood and bruises. His normal eyes were closed but his Jagan was open, looking around at what was probably a strange environment to him. Sakura felt sad for this boy lying on the ground broken and bruised. So Sakura summoned a Wind Dragon to carry the boy back to the temple. "Baa-san will know how to help you," she whispered to the little demon. "Only a demon would have three eyes," Sakura told herself. And with that she led the dragon carrying the young demon back to the temple.
When Ryu finally woke up, he was in a strange room. He tried to remember what had happened to him. He remembered that he and his father were out training when the king's lackeys attacked them. He remembered being separated from his father and the stronger demons cornering him at a cliff. He remembered falling off the cliff and then nothing. As Ryu tried to figure out where he was, the door to the room opened and a young girl around his age walked in. She was small, like him, with long jet black hair and beautiful emerald eyes. She smiled at him and said "You're awake. I'm glad."
Ryu stared at the little girl in front of him, wondering who she was and where he was.
"You're a demon, right?" the girl asked him.
"Yes, I am," he answered her.
"My name is Sakura and I'm part demon," she told him.
"I'm Ryu," he replied. Ryu wondered why he was telling this Sakura
his name.
"What kind of demon are you?"
Ryu didn't like all the questions she was asking him. He was afraid that he was being tricked by a lackey of the king or something. As if reading his mind, Sakura informed him that he wasn't in Makai anymore. This was Ningenkai and most people here didn't have 3 eyes.
"So this is Ningenkai?" Ryu asked her.
"Yep," she answered.
"I didn't know there were any part demons here. I thought they were all sent to Makai."
At Ryu's last remark, his new companion became very sad looking. "There aren't any other demons, part or full, left here. I'm the only one. I was born after everyone got sent to Makai. Papa and my big brother are there. Mama's in a coma because of a bus accident. All I have is Baa-san now." She lowered her eyes so Ryu wouldn't see her cry.
Now Ryu felt bad for making the poor thing sad. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you."
Sakura looked up at Ryu. She wiped her eyes and said "It's nothing. I've never told anyone this." She smiled at him and he smiled back.
~She's really cute,~ thought Ryu.
The two children talked for the rest of the day, watched over by Genkai. ~I'm glad she finally has a friend,~ thought the older woman. With that Genkai left the two children alone to get dinner ready.
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Using his Jagan, Ryu watched over Sakura as she ran to school. Ryu was a fairly average height by human standards. He looked like his father, with short, spiky black hair and crimson eyes. He also had his father's taste in clothes: black and lots of it. He had on black jeans with black biker boots, a white t-shirt and a black leather jacket he most likely stole from a human. He, however, didn't have to wear a headband to cover his Jagan. He could will it to disappear when he wasn't using it. Ryu also had another interesting power – he could control both fire and ice. No one could explain why, not even his father, Hiei, and it was probably because of his unusual power that the king's lackeys had been after him that day.
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(Higurashi Shrine)
Leiko and Kazuo Higurashi hated going to school. They hated it so much, because the 14 year old twins of Kagome and Inu-Yasha were very different from the rest of their classmates. They were hanyous, like their parents, and could travel into the past through a well in the shrine they called home. The time travel however, was not the reason they didn't fit in, they didn't let anyone know about that. The 'problem' was that Leiko looked almost exactly like her father with white hair and gold eyes, and while Kazuo did too, he had black hair and brown eyes like his mother, and both of them also had their father's dog ears, Leiko's white, and Kazuo's black, which they had to hide when they went out in public. Each twin also always carried their guardian swords everywhere they went. Both of the swords were made of a fang from Inu-Yasha and a fang from whichever child the sword belonged to. Leiko's sword was called Kigaisaiga, and Kazuo's was Fushisaiga, and keeping said swords with them was mandatory.
The two had actually just come from the past, bringing back with them their two friends, who were more like cousins to them, Shina and Kanaye. Shina and Kanaye were the children of Sango and Miroku. Shina looked exactly like her mother, except she had her father's blue eyes and heightened sex drive. Her brother, Kanaye, a year older, was pretty much a clone of Miroku with slightly longer hair and freckles. He also had his father's 'affections' for the opposite sex. All 4 teenagers were on their way to school, they had all transferred in the trimester before, getting kicked out of their old school for being 'troublemakers'. It wasn't their fault they were always being hunted by the agents of Reikai, what could they do but fight back?
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(The Kuwabara Residence)
Hina Kuwabara raced out the door, yelling goodbye to her father. She was so late, and what was worse, she had classroom duties today. Hina was a very tall 15 year old girl now. Her long, orange and turquoise-streaked hair was tied up in a very messy bun. She was good student, simply because she didn't want to disappoint her father. He wouldn't yell or anything if she got bad grades. It's just she didn't like the sad look he got in his eyes. They made her feel like a 2 year old again.
Hina was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't notice someone was walking in front of her until she nearly knocked the poor kid over. However, Hina had really good reflexes from playing on the girl's basketball team that she was able to catch the younger boy before he fell. "You ok Touya-kun?" she asked the 14 year old boy.
"Yeah Hina-chan I'm ok." Touya Minamino was the youngest of the Minamino family. His short, light blue hair was done up in punk spikes and his amethyst eyes looked slightly dull. He was the top student in his class, like his father always was before him. He and Hina went to the same school, Nadeshiko Academy. It was a private high school and junior high combined that was home to many of the richer people's children. Hina and Touya were both able to get in on scholarships and with some money saved up by both families. "Late for classroom duties again Hina-chan?" Touya asked the older girl.
"Shut up man. You know I hate getting up this early. I wish the teachers wouldn't give me classroom duty the first day of the new trimester." "Then shouldn't you get going?" he asked her again. Hina looked her watch, screamed some kind of profanity, and ran at full speed to get to school. Touya laughed and continued walking to school.
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Sakura was walking down the halls of Nadeshiko Academy, looking for her first class. A girl about her age walked up to her and asked,
"You lost?"
"Yeah," she answered.
"Come on homeroom is this way," directed the young girl.
"Thanks," Sakura replied.
"Oh by the way, I'm Kaori Sumergai. And you are?"
Sakura looked at Kaori and said, "Sakura Urameshi." Kaori was a little
taller than Sakura with shoulder length dark brown hair and light
brown eyes. She smiled at Sakura sweetly, which put Sakura at ease.
"Maybe it won't be so bad here," she thought as Kaori lead her to
their homeroom.
"Looks we're in the same class," commented Kaori.
"Seems so," replied Sakura.
"Hey may I call you Sakura-chan?" Kaori asked her as they each took
seats in the back of the room.
"Sure, I'd love it."
"Great!" Squealed Kaori. "And you can call me Kaori-chan."
"Ok," Sakura happily said. She now had a new friend. Maybe Tokyo
wasn't such a bad place.
Touya entered his homeroom to see Kaori talking to a new student. "Kaori-chan, who's your new friend?" he asked her. "Didn't your mother ever teach you manners Minamino-kun? You don't say good morning anymore?" was Kaori's reply. "Since when do I need manners when talking to you? You never seemed to care before," Touya rebutted. Kaori looked at Sakura and pointed to Touya. "This is Touya Minamino-kun," she said in a matter of fact voice. "I've known him since I was little. He's a total book worm with bad manners." "I have manners, Kaori-chan," Touya yelled. "I just never use them when you're around." "Do you two ever stop fighting?" a new voice called out. Another classmate walked into the room. She had ear-length honey colored hair and baby blue eyes. She was a little taller than Touya. "Good morning Anzu-chan," Touya said quite politely. "Hey how come Anzu-chan gets a 'Good morning' but I don't?" complained Kaori. "'Cause she's a lady and you're not," Touya replied. "Minamino-kun you are so dead!" threatened Kaori.
Sakura watched the antics of her new classmates and burst out laughing. No one had ever acted this way in front of her before. "You must think we're idiots," Kaori said to Sakura. "Actually, you guys seem really close. It's refreshing. No one wanted to be near me in my old school." "Why?" asked a curious Touya. "People thought I was a freak and stayed away from me 'cause I lived in a temple. They thought I had weird powers or something." Sakura didn't know she could open up to people like she was doing now. "Oh, where are my manners? My name is Sakura Urameshi." "Well, I'm Touya Minamino and this is Anzu-chan Rei." Anzu bowed and said "Nice to meet you." "It's nice to meet all of you as well." For the first time in her life, Sakura didn't feel out of place. Maybe this is where she belonged all along.
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As always, Please Review