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Blooded Kin
Chapter 6: 750!

WindEmpress: I just realized that I have a very interesting style of writing…
Firestar: nice . . .

Star awoke after a dream she had of four people, two boys and two girls, fighting each other. (WindEmpress: Oh, yeah, Star has a vital role for Leanna and Keladay later on . . . and she so cute!) The dream had been so weird because she felt every gash they inflicted on each other and felt the blood run down their body. It was as though they were all connected; even the people fighting each other felt the other's pain as they attacked each other. Before she had awakened, she remembered that the males were winning; the white wolf in the black dragon's mouth with blood flowing down her fur and the phoenix carrying the tiger high into the sky. Of course, she had seen the person who had stopped the wolf from attacking, but he couldn't move. She stood up a bit too fast and found herself in a daze of stars, causing her to laugh like a drunkard for no reason.

Kurama had awakened to the sound of the child's laughter and found that Yusuke and Kuwabara were also in the area, but Leanna, Keladay, and Hiei were all missing again; not only that, but he couldn't move his body, but here was this girl, standing with no problem, as though there was nothing holding her back. Something was surely going on . . .

Leanna thrashed in the dragon's fangs, but as she did, she began to lose more blood in the struggle, causing her to become weaker; Keladay was no better, up in the sky, she was flailing as the phoenix carried her into the sky, yelling "Put me down, you damned chicken!" Leanna closed her eyes and summoned a bolt of lightening from the clouds, which gathered at breakneck speeds, and shocked the phoenix. They fell from the sky and into the trees; that was more preferable because Derek wanted to take her higher until she would die. Luckily, they had only been above the trees, so Keladay was safe to land on her paws in a tree.

Keladay landed safely in the tree on all fours; Derek hadn't been so lucky, he landed with a sickening crack and shifted back to his human state. She leapt down to the ground and moved towards him to find he was alive, just a broken leg, arm, and some other frivolous bones. He would be safe where he was at, which was in the cover of the forest away from the battle. She turned to Leanna and Matt; it was time to finish this brawl. Keladay raced towards the dragon and sank her fangs and talons into his front, left leg; she could taste the metallic scented blood rushing into her mouth, making her raged that this was blood that was close to her own that she was tasting. The dragon lifted his leg to brush her away, but Keladay did the same as Leanna had and sent a bolt of lightening onto the dragon's head: he was dazed. She sent down another with the same effect and she was beginning to tire. With the rest of her spared energy, she put it all into another bolt of lightening; the dragon released his grip on Leanna's body and his own fell to the ground. Keladay raced over to Leanna as her body landed on the ground, blood-staining the grass around her crimson.

The grip on Kurama's body weakened, letting him rise from the ground; Yusuke and Kuwabara awoke at once as the spell disappeared. Star had been watching a butterfly fly around the clearing and chased after it; she caught it in her hands, gently holding it and aware of keeping her hands from the wings, she moved to Kurama. "Lookie, I caught a butterfly," she said opening her hands to reveal the butterfly that she carried. It was a Papilio Demetrius, which Kurama specified quickly. The body of the fragile insect was all black with thin antenna just as dark, the wings were black with small white lines where the butterfly's veins showed, and a circle of red was on the forewing of the butterfly. It fluttered its wings for a second and stayed in the little girl's hand. Kurama nodded and looked around to find that Keladay, Leanna, and Hiei were still not within the area, "Where's Hiei and the other two?"

Yusuke stood up to look about the area and he too realized that three were missing, "Good question." He rubbed his head as though that would make his headache go away. Kuwabara did the same, but he didn't speak, he just looked about the area in confusion. "Who are you?" Yusuke asked the girl; he had forgotten since he had been knocked out.

The girl smiled and watched the butterfly flutter out of her hands, "My name's Star." She looked around the area as though something was wrong. "There's something going on . . . something I don't like." Star continued to look around, as though to make sure whatever was bothering her wasn't around. Suddenly she dropped to the ground with her eyes becoming blurry and began to whisper in a different voice. "The poison . . . it courses through my blood . . . I can't breathe . . . I can't think . . . Everything's dying . . . Going away . . . I'm dying . . . dying . . . dying . . ." Her hands gripped her head as a support to her sanity. Her voice changed again into a deeper voice, "Kill her . . . Kill her . . . Kill her . . . KILL HER! KILL HER! KILL HER!" She was screaming the words as shecontinued her chant. Kurama knew that someone was trying to possess her and leapt to his feet and shook her: she stopped instantly. Her eyes filled with tears of fear when she burst out crying on Kurama's shoulder. "I was so scared! Someone kept yelling at me to kill . . . to kill . . ." She stopped thinking that if she said the name someone would surely kill her.

"To kill who, Star?" Yusuke asked finally understanding what was happening.

Star stopped sobbing and looked at Kurama when she whispered, "Kill the twins . . . the Taiyo twins." Her little body began to shake in fear. She continued whispering, "He said that he'd come for them . . . and he'd take them . . ."

Kurama looked at her with doubt. The Taiyo twins disappeared in 1605 and no one has seen them since. Could it be that they've resurfaced? And who would want them dead? Kurama thought as he looked at the girl. "Come on, we have to find our missing trio," he said standing up.

"Leanna, wake up! Wake up!" Keladay cried to her cousin who was lying in a puddle of her blood. It didn't look good; the wounds were becoming impure. "Damn you, Leanna, why won't you wake up!" Keladay cried as her fist hit the ground in a fury. She was beginning to get angry that everything was going wrong. What the hell did Leanna and I do to make them attack us anyway!

There was a gentle chuckling over by the dragon; Matt was still in his dragon form, but his body had not recovered from the bolt she'd sent down to him. "I've tainted her blood with the poison that was given to me. She only has a few more minutes to live." He chucked once more in delight.

Keladay lost it and shifted at breakneck speeds to her tiger form, "Damn you fuckin' dragon! Damn you to hell!" She began to slash at his face with all the force she had left in her body. "She was your sister, how dare you take her life!" Blood raced down the dragon's face and Keladay's paws that were once pure white were now blood red. Hiei could only stand dumbfounded as Keladay slashed at the dragon's face. Though its talons were strong, it seemed that Keladay's urge for revenge was stronger. Kurama arrived shortly after to witness Keladay's rage.

"Keladay, stop it!" Star said quietly. "Stop it. Stop it," she began to cry louder and louder with each call, "Stop it, stop it, stop it stop it!" Keladay finally stopped at the girl's desperate calls and found her white paws stained red; the dragon's scales were bleeding, but none of the attacks would cause scars or anything major. Star began to sob again; she'd gone through so much in so little time. Keladay came back to her senses and shifted back to her human form, she knew what it was like to discover how bad your life really was going to be.

Hiei too came back to his senses and raced over to Leanna; her wounds were not only infected with the poison but her eyes were beginning to dull, her heartbeat was beginning to fade with it. "Kurama, we've got a problem!"

"As if we don't have enough already," Yusuke said trying to calm the hysteric Star.

"What is it?" Kurama asked.

"Leanna's dying!"

Kurama was taken aback; Star had somehow gotten Leanna's thoughts as the poison had entered her bloodstream. He raced over to Leanna as quickly as he could to find that she was slowly dying. "What do we do?"

"Move out of the way," said a voice from behind. Once they turned, they found Genkai who had come out of no where.

"What can you do, old lady!" Keladay snapped in her harshest tone yet. Her eyes seemed to flare with anger again, but she calmed the flame with the thought of Leanna actually living.

Genkai didn't look at Keladay as she spoke, "There are many things that I can do that I wouldn't even think to teach you." She extended her hands over Leanna's body, which was now motionless. Her hands began to glow with spirit energy forming.

"Hey, are you saying something about me!" Keladay asked irately.

Kurama turned to her, "Don't lose your temper just yet . . . you're just as bad as Yusuke." His emerald green eyes returned to Leanna's only to come face to face with Hiei.

"You do know that Keladay likes it when you say stuff like that?" Hiei asked in a bit of an aggravated tone. His gaze moved towards Keladay, Kurama's eyes moving towards her, and glared. Keladay had the starry eyes as she stared at Kurama. "See what I mean?" Kurama didn't answer.

Leanna's eyes fluttered open seeing people all around her when suddenly "LEANNA!" and she felt something large pounce on her. "Ouch . . ." she said quietly as her cousin hugged her to death.

"I would be careful with her," Genkai said, "She's injured her shoulder blades somewhat and her back." Leaning towards Leanna she said, "You're going to have one hell of a headache in the morning."

Keladay ignored what Genkai had just said and hugged her cousin even more, "I don't care if she's hurt ("OUCH!" Leanna cried), I nearly lost her to a bloody dragon!"

"Since when do you say bloody like an English-woman?" Leanna asked through her crushed body. "Can you please stop hugging me? My body's due to explode like a pimple if you don't stop anytime soon!"

"You have a long time before you're due in the Spirit World," Koenma said from behind Yusuke, who jumped in fright and gave a few threats in reaction.

Leanna glared at Keladay and kicked her off to stand up (Firestar: Wow! Her face isn't so blue anymore!), but nearly fell backwards from lightheadedness. Luckily, Hiei was there to help her . . . somewhat; her legs buckled beneath her and down she went again. "Damn . . ." she said hitting the ground with her fist.

"Next time, be a bit slower when you stand up," Genkai replied to Leanna. She moved next to Keladay, who just sat up and was now rubbing her head, "And next time, don't try to strangle her, otherwise it may be you who will be hurt."

Koenma sighed at both the girls' stupidity, "I've come to take these two away . . . and to tell you some interesting news that I've just learned of."

Leanna looked at Koenma then to the black dragon that had nearly killed her; he may have tried to send her to the Spirit World, but he was still her brother. "Tell me the news first," she said still staring at her brother.

Koenma cleared his throat, "While I was going through some old cases, I came across a very old one about a family of demons. It was thought that they had all but vanished after they had been taken to the Spirit World to find a home for them in the Human World when I found a folder about two sets of twins . . . and another child. The only information about the twins was the two female twins, the eldest of them. There were the female twins, the male twins, and a single child, from what we've gathered. Anyhow, the female twins were considered the most powerful of the family. Leanna, Keladay, the two of you . . . are those twins."

Leanna turned to Keladay, who turned to Leanna . . . it seemed so possible to be true, but why were the considered cousins? "Then explain to me why we are-"

"Cousins?" he finished for her, "It was a lie to keep you safe and the human aura you thought you had kept you out of harm's way completely."

"And Matt and Derek?" Keladay asked Koenma, "Are they the other twins?"

"Yes, in fact they are and Star here is you younger sister."

"Wow, Keladay," Leanna said to her 'twin', "That's the smartest . . . wait . . . sister?"

"Yes, Star is you younger sister, but she has a different father."

"Star . . . as in the girl we met today Star?" Keladay asked turning towards the little girl, who looked very confused. Her face became a bit red in embarrassment.

"Yes, Keladay, the same Star that you met today, but with any other information concerning-" Both Leanna and Keladay had ignored him up to this point because they were both hugging Star in happiness.

"I told you she looked just like us!" Keladay said blissfully, "I knew she had those familiar blue eyes that run in our family!"

"Yeah, not to mention the dark brown hair too," Leanna replied.

"You guys are squishing me!" Star warned.

"Aww, it's a family reunion," Yusuke said with a bit of sarcasm.

Leanna stopped at the mention of a 'family reunion', "You really aren't going to take them away, are you Koenma? My brother . . . I mean, Matt was lost between what was true and what wasn't. I understand what he's going through . . . but please don't take them away, they're all I have."

Hmmm, this is a very strange family indeed. One idiot tries to kill the other and the idiot that's about to be murdered is begging for the murder's life, Hiei thought to himself. But he knew in his heart that Leanna was doing the right thing.

Koenma looked into the girl's deep green eyes . . . Damn, she's just like her mother, he thought recalling those eyes he had once seen, pleading and full of hope. He sighed, "I'll take them to the Spirit World where they'll go on trial. Depending on what happens, I'll help, but I can't promise anything."

Leanna's eyes lit up with happiness, though she knew that they may get the death penalty for this, "Thank you, Koenma." She went to go back towards her twin when she felt Koenma's hand on her shoulder.

"By the way, the notes that I read said that the younger twin is named Miku."

"Younger . . . Wait . . . just how old are we? And wouldn't Keladay be named Miku since she is the younger?"

Koenma smiled, "The two of you are seven-hundred and fifty years old."

"WHAT!" everyone said together.

"As in the numbers seven, five, and zero; 750?" Keladay asked trying to comprehend what had just happened.

"Yes, that is what I said, as for the younger, the two of you were born in the time where the first born child was considered the younger and the second born was considered the elder. You, Miku, were the first born."

Leanna took this in; she remembered this in her history classes . . . 750 years ago? She turned back to Koenma and smiled, "Alright then, from now and on, I am Miku."

"Wait, what about me?" Keladay asked Koenma in a whiny tone again.

"It didn't say anything about the name of the elder twin."

Keladay's jaw dropped, "Why me . . ."

Koenma turned his attention back to the dragon and the phoenix, "See you later," he said and disappeared with the twin brothers.

Everyone was silent as they watched Miku, Keladay, and Star. "I really hope that my brothers are not killed," Miku whispered.

Yusuke stepped forward and placed his hand on the girls' shoulders, "Don't worry, the worst he could do is make them Spirit Detectives."

Miku turned to him, "Really?" she asked hopefully.

"No."

Hiei walked up to Yusuke and pushed him away, "Don't go thinking your funny, Yusuke. Can't you see that they're already worried as it is?" He turned to Miku for a minute, who's eyes were directly on him, but turned away before she could notice.

Yusuke recovered from Hiei's attack, which hadn't been hard enough to knock him to the ground, "What was all that about?"

"You didn't like it when Kuwabara made you think that Botan and Keiko were dead, I don't think you should be doing the same for them."

This is unlike Hiei in everyway, did something just happen? Yusuke thought to himself. "Yeah, okay, whatever."

Star yawned and tried to the best of her ability to hide it, but everyone saw. Miku smiled, despite her worries, "I saw we all go home and get some sleep. If tomorrow is anything like this, then I want to get some sleep now."

"Me too," Star and Keladay said simultaneously.

Miku laughed, "In that case..." She spun around so fast it was only a blur, "LAST ONE THERE IS A ROTTEN EGG!"

WindEmpress: WOOOT! I FINALLY finished after two weeks! I like the ending to this one.
Firestar: Took you long enough.
WindEmpress: With all the stress in school and trying to find time now a days, it's hard.
Firestar: Sure it wasn't because you weren't having fun with your Guardian?
WindEmpress . . . . Shut up . . . . . you perv . . .
Firestar: (laughs)
WindEmpress: By the way: I am Pliskin, hear me roar . . . . . MOO!
Firestar: O.O
WindEmpress: Thank you Lisa for making me laugh everyday!
Firestar: O.O
WindEmpress: This is the end to Blood Kin by the way. Until next time!
Firestar: O.O
WindEmpress: Would you quit that . . .