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Blooded Kin
Chapter 3: Kick His Ass!

WindEmpress: For those of you who don't know what Sais are, do you remember Electrica? She carries Sais. You know, those dagger lookin' things?
Firestar: I think they get the point.
WindEmpress: smiles Heh . . . just wanted to be sure . . .

Hiei watched her hurtle forward and smirked. Such an idiot, he thought to himself. He quickly teleported behind her and slashed at her back with his sword. Leanna fell forward as the blood seeped down her back, staining her kimono; she lost her breath for a minute as she fell to the ground.

"Okay . . . so you won't be nice about it," she said standing up.

Hiei laughed, "You really thought I was going to be nice? Get up and really fight."

Okay, so the method of a surprise attack didn't seem to go too well. What do I do now? Leanna smiled at her opponent. "I guess I misjudged you. Here I thought you were such a nice person that you'd go easy on me."

Hiei looked at her. "Very interesting, now surrender and I won't have to make this any worse than it should be," Hiei charged at her again to slash at her shoulder, but she had tried to move away from it and ended up slashing her cheek. Blood trickled down her cheek and went onto her neck.

An inch more and he'd have sliced my head off, she thought. Her mind thought of what to do next: nothing. There wasn't anything for her to do. She clutched her fists together, hoping that she'd die quickly, but she felt something cool and hard in her hands. "Huh?" she said and looked at her fists: two small looking daggers, but there were two smaller blades next to the longest. Sais?

Keladay looked at her cousin. "What's going on? Where the fudge did you get those?"

Leanna turned to her. "Hell if I know . . ." She looked back at Hiei and smiled. "My turn!" she said charging at him. Her Sais slashed left and right trying to get at least one hit . . . without killing him, of course.

Hiei was overwhelmed so by her speed that he had forgotten he could teleport. He tried a few times, but she found him, somehow, before he could even attack her. Her attacks kept coming so fast and he didn't even see her send a jolt of lightening at him. He flew backwards and stayed on the ground.

Leanna stopped moving and walked over to him. "Did I overdo it?" she asked peering over him.

Koenma blinked at her.

"Hey! You did it!" Keladay called. "I never doubted you for a minute!"

Kurama looked at her. "Right . . . that's why you said she would die in a millisecond."

"Exactly why I said that to her!"

Yusuke scratched her head. "Damn . . . the both of you are unpredictable!"

Leanna came back and smiled at him. "That's why you shouldn't provoke us. Keladay! You're up!"

Keladay skipped into the center like a little kid getting ice-cream on a hot summer day. Kurama watched her and followed only a minute later.

"Leanna," Koenma asked, "Where's Hiei?"

She smiled and pointed to the knocked-out Hiei off in the corner a safe distance from the battle. "There," she said sweetly.

Koenma just blinked and turned back to Keladay and Kurama.

"You do know that I won't go easy on you either," Kurama said.

Keladay's cheery posture was gone. "You're not?" she said forlornly. She began to fake cry and turned away. "That's not fair!" she said miserably.

Leanna rolled her eyes. "Keladay, you wimp, fight or flee! You chose fight, so FIGHT!"

"What's that supposed to mean?" Yusuke asked idiotically.

She turned to him. "Hey dope, are you on dope? 'Cause you're actin' like it . . . dope."

"Hey! I only had it once! And it was fun!" Keladay said.

Yusuke and Leanna's face went blank.

"I hope you're kidding," Leanna said threateningly.

"Maybe . . . You'll have to find out for yourself," she said with a malevolence grin.

"Just start fighting . . . damn! You two are worse than Botan with her twin sister!" Yusuke said turning his back to them trying to keep his headache from coming.

Leanna looked at him for a minute. "Botan has a twin?"

Keladay looked at Kurama: he had his rose whip out already. "Ah, ha, you're not going to fight with that thing . . . are you?" she asked looking at his whip like it was a rattlesnake ready to strike at any given moment.

Kurama just looked at her, "Yes, I am. Do you have a problem with it?" He looked at his weapon to see why she didn't approve of it. Most demons he'd fought with hadn't asked him that . . .

"No, not all," she said as though she could care less about his weapon, but she did. I hope he misses each time he tries to attack me, she thought fearfully.

"Alright then . . ." he lashed out at her with his whip. Keladay cringed and covered her eyes, hoping that it would somehow miss.

There was the strange sound of an unsheathed sword, but nothing hit her. She opened one eyed and looked: somehow, she'd caused a clear barrier to form around herself. Kurama's rose whip had reflected right back at him. He was on the ground, but he wasn't out like Hiei.

"Keladay won?" Kuwabara said.

Leanna turned to him. "Where the hell did you come from?" Oddly, he'd been silent the entire time that she and Keladay had battled. She held up her hand before he could speak. "Don't answer that."

Kurama got up and rubbed his head. "Wow," he said, "if I'd have known you could do that, I wouldn't have battled you."

"Ah! You're-alive! I-thought-I-had-killed-you! Should-I-kill-you-or-let-you-live?" she asked a mile a minute.

Leanna walked over to her and hit her up-side the head. "Shut-up," she said and left.

"Good to see you care! I nearly died!" Keladay retorted back.

Leanna half turned. "Right, you just cringed there, hoping that you'd win that way and it seemed to have worked. I suggest you quit-"

"Damn, you sound like my mother!" Keladay said.

Leanna fully turned around. "Well someone around her has to be mature enough to take care of you people!"

"Well excuse me for trying to have a good time!"

"Did you have a good time with Naraku?"

"What! Eww gross! Wait . . . I only slept with him once and it was good!"

Cringe "That is so wrong!"

"You said it!"

"Well you didn't have to answer to it!"

"Well I did!"

BANG!

Leanna and Keladay were on the ground rubbing their heads and Kurama behind them with two rocks in his hands.

"Thank you, Kurama!" Yusuke said towards him.

"Ow," Leanna said standing up, but her head was spinning and she fell back down. "OW! Did you have to do that?"

"Really . . . I'm going to have mental problems . . ." Keladay said.

"Like you didn't already?" her cousin asked.

"Don't start!" Yusuke said aggressively.

"What the hell happened?" Hiei said waking up . . . finally.

Leanna looked at him. "Oh my god, I thought I had killed you!" she said terrified.

He looked at her. "Kill me? Don't make me laugh."

Keladay peered from behind Leanna. "She can't make you laugh . . . but I can with my sick comments!"

"Don't start this again!"

Keladay looked at Leanna and smiled evilly. "Though, I could make some bad comments about you and-"

Leanna broke her off by covering her mouth with her hand.

"Wack two tis a hen," she said behind Leanna's hand.

"Yes, we are."

"Meh . . . didn't hiss ice?"

Leanna nodded absentmindedly.

Kuwabara walked over to them. "You can understand what she's saying?"

Leanna gave him a strange look; a cross between a glare and a frown. "Yes, I can understand her . . . and you're stupidity is showing."

He turned and looked frantically around. "Where . . . I don't see it . . ."

Leanna smiled. "Exactly," she said proudly. Without notice, she leaped backwards and gave a bit of a screech as she fell onto the ground. "You sick little perv! What'd you do that for!"

Keladay had the biggest smirk on her face and the most evil expression. "It's funny to watch you squirm . . ."

She watched her intently with bits of funny revenge and a good way to attack. "Hey, Keladay," she called to her as she shifted to her wolf form. "I challenge you to a fight!"

Keladay yelped and turned around to find a snarling white wolf staring at her. She yelped once more and turned into her tiger form and ran around the area, Leanna following closely behind. As Keladay came around the group for the seven-millionth time, someone stepped in front of her, causing her to skid to a stop. Leanna leaped up into the air and bit on her neck. The tiger yowled and twisted around. She smacked the wolf with her large paws and flung her off. "Don't do that!"

Leanna shook her white pelt. "Why not?" she asked sitting down as her wolf self. "I see it as funny."

"Oh, ha, ha, you and you're philosopher-like talk!"

The wolf cocked her head. "I'm not trying to, but if you see it that way . . ."

"I know where you live . . ."

"Yeah? Well I know where you live."

The white tiger gave a fake gasp. "No . . ."

"Yes . . ."

"No . . . Speaking of which," she said perkily, "where are we staying at?" she asked looking around the area. Leanna rolled her eyes.

"The rooms we put you in when you first came," Kurama said.

"Oh . . . yeah, I forgot about those . . . Hey! Who was the idiot that jumped in front of me?" she asked looking at the group. Yusuke waved his hand at her: she gave him the half-eyes. "Oh, you are so dead."

Leanna smiled. "Did I also give her permission to kick you're ass?"

"What's with all you're cussing now?" her cousin asked.

She shrugged her furry shoulders. "It's not like I haven't done that before."

Keladay looked at her. "Done what?"

"Curse, you idiot!"

"Are you sure?"

Leanna gave her the half eyes now.

Bang!

Keladay fell to the ground. "Ouch . . . did you have to hit me with that rock? Hey, where did you get that rock from anyway!"

Leanna smiled. "I don't know. It must have fallen from the sky."

Keladay let out a yell (more like a roar since she is still in her tiger form), but was cut-short when Leanna smacked her with her paw. Yusuke started laughing while Hiei and Kurama smirked (Kuwabara doesn't have a clue as to what was going on). It was quite strange to see a tiger getting hit by a wolf.

Koenma sighed. "I sure hope the two of you get along better than this usually," he said in an irked voice.

The two cousins looked at each other. "We're just foolin' around," Leanna said with a smile.

"Yep, 'cause that's what we do!" she said giving Leanna a high-five.

Koenma sighed again. These two are bound to be unstable.

"So what do we do now?" Keladay asked.

Leanna noticed that the sky had lightened up. She turned around and found a pink sky on the eastern horizon. The day was beginning again and with it would bring new thoughts and new adventures for them. She popped back to her human form and watched as the sun rose in the sky.

Leanna felt as though she was falling. Everything around her was a blur before it all came into focus. Keladay, who appeared right next to her, looked surprised. Everything around them was . . . perfect.

"Are we . . . dead?" she asked.

"I don't think so . . ." She trailed off when she saw what was in front of her: a little girl near a black dragon and a . . . phoenix? The little girl, from what they could see, had long brown hair and seemed to be wearing a white kimono, but her sash was a light blue. The dragon looked at them and lifted its head and gave a screeching call, along with the phoenix.

"What's going on?" Keladay asked without taking her eyes off them.

"I don't know . . ."

The phoenix leaped into the air as fast as a flash of lightening bolt, the dragon followed, but slower. All that was left was the girl with her back to them. Leanna started towards her, but . . .

"Wake up . . . come on! We've got stuff to do!" said a voice in the sky.

The little girl started to run away.

"No wait!"

"Come back!" Leanna said, tossing in her sleep.

"I'm right here, you dolt!" Keladay said hitting Leanna in the head.

"Ow!" she said opening her eyes and putting her hands on her head.

Keladay put her hands on her hips. "Its about time! When I came in here, you were thrashing like . . ."

Leanna's glare caused her to stop. "Don't finish that." She rubbed her head where Keladay had hit her. "What's so important that you have to go and wake me up by hitting me?"

"Well . . . considering that the only clothes we have are shredded kimonos, I thought we should go shopping."

Leanna looked at her. "You woke me up . . . to see if I wanted to go shopping . . . Wait . . . Where did you get the money."

Keladay grinned.

"AHHH! I can't believe you!"

"What?"

"You went to the corner . . . and SOLD YOURSELF!"

"No! I did no such thing!"

"Then how did you get it?"

She grinned again. "I had to ask a few strangers . . . I told them I was an orphan and had no money for food or shelter. A few were kind enough to give me hundred dollar bills to leave them alone."

"You mean that you followed them and nagged them."

She nodded. "Annoyance can go a long way. Now, are you coming?"

Leanna smiled and nodded. So far, things were starting to look up.

WindEmpress: Record time! I finished it in two days! Go me!
Firestar: (not here)
WindEmpress: It seems so lonely now that she's gone for the week. (sighs)