Disclaimer: My god, this is getting quite annoying. Don't own YYH or characters, as usual, and Katrina is a fictional character, who is owned by moi and only moi. Sheesh...

Chapter 22: Fight

"Oh, Malai, I just wanted you to know that I-I..."

"What, Katsuya?"

"I---"

I angrily switch off the TV, much to Mie's annoyed yells. Since we all share the same room, there's a lot of TV fights. I'm going to kill Koenma for this bright idea.

"That was the best part of the show, you imbecile! Katsuya was just about to tell Malai that he loved her---"

"MIE! I don't want to hear about it! I hate soaps more than anything! Soap operas are just another form of kissy-kissy-goo-goo stories, which you know I can't stand! I can't believe you like those, you freak!" Ugh. I may have a point for now, but that came out wrong.

"Well, I do!" She yells back, her face purpling. "I love love stories! They send shivers up my spine!"

"Your face sends shivers up my spine," I mutter, low enough so that she can't hear me. Anyone who goes for those seventh heaven kissy lala fairy tales oughta jump in a lake. I mean, I'm more into anime, like Rurouni Kenshin and Inu-yasha, probably because I kinda feel like that's what I'm in, now.

But, of course Mie has to hate those shows and we have to have one TV.

"Guys, knock it off already. It's driving me crazy. How can I ever sleep late or enjoy the lack of school with your constant bickering? Honestly," mutters a pile of blankets.

"Oh SORRY!" I say, my temper rising, "Didn't realize the great Yukimura Keiko needs her beauty rest!"

Keiko pokes her head out gives me a cold look from beneath the sheets. "I was just saying there's room for improvement, all right? Don't get so touchy."

"TOUCHY?! I'M touchy? You're the one whining!"

"Am not!"

"Are too."

Keiko glares at me. "You know, what the hell is wrong with you lately? You hate everyone, and it drives everyone crazy, not just me! You still don't know why Mie suspected you of knocking me out that one morning, do you? It's because of your bitchy attitude, Kat!"

Throwing off the covers, she storms out the door, leaving me utterly speechless. Mie follows her out. My eye twitches. How dare they! I don't have a bitchy attitude. I don't. They're just as bad. Yeah, just as bad.

What I hate most of all about my mind is that I can never lie to myself. Stupid...

555555555555555555555555555555

Breakfast is a subdued affair. The dining hall isn't really big. Even though breakfast is really good (eggs, bacon, and toast) it doesn't taste right. Keiko and I are glaring daggers at each other, but Mie has decided not to take sides in this fight, though I'm quite sure she's inclined toward Keiko. Several other people, being Kurama, Kuwabara, and Yusuke, have noticed that I'm not talking to my friends anymore, but they aren't saying anything. You know, being polite. Except one.

"Pssst. What's up with you?"

I turn around to see Hiei. I feel unreasonable resentment. "Nothing," I whisper coldly.

He shruggs. "Doesn't look like nothing. You can tell me, if you like. Or Kurama."

"It's nothing. I just have bitches for friends is all."

He looks at me almost as if he's going to laugh, but he doesn't. "Well, me and Kurama want to talk to you after breakfast, just in the courtyard. Okay?"

How I'd love to bite him, right now, hard. "All right." Was that my voice?

"Okay then."

Hmph. Guess it was me, darn it!

"Why did they get mad at you?" He asks quietly, and again he gets a laughing glint in his eyes.

"Guess."

"Erm...the TV?"

I hate smart people. "Yeah."

"Mie wanted a soap, I suppose?"

A thought dawns on me. If he's no psychic, then... "You were eavesdropping!"

"No," he grins. "But if there were some in America who didn't hear you three, you'll be lucky."

So everyone knows. Exactly what I need. "We might as well go now," I mutter to Hiei, pushing away my plate. "I'm not hungry anymore."

He shruggs again. I follow him out because I really don't know my way around this huge, old style tower. My directional sense is okay, not as bad as Kurama's, but it still could be better.

Even I have to work hard to conceal how much I like the gardens/courtyard. It's a softly lit greenhouse sort of thing, with weird unearthly exotic plants. Plants with orange leaves, and blue fruit, and flashing pink blossoms. Hiei notices me staring around in my wonder. "I thought you might kill your bad mood in here. The essence from the flowers has a calming property."

Oh. So that was it. No wonder I suddenly don't hate Keiko and Mie. "It is beautiful, though."

Hiei rolls his eyes and shows me Kurama. I notice that the heartless hag is back. Wonder why she's here? "Katrina, we have a fix on the demon's location," says my brother.

I am momentarily awakened from my fairy tale stupor. "Wha-what?"

"We know the general area where the king demon is."

"YOU DO?!"

"Yes. But we also found something else. Something more valuable."

"What? What?"

"This." Kurama pulls something out of his pocket. At first I am reminded of that sort of gnome thing that J.K.Rowling always uses, only much bigger. It glares up at me with such fear and hatred that I want to smack it. And I do. It glares and starts to speak. "I AM THE MASTER OF ALL PARASI, WORMS OF LEGEND! NONE DARE OPPOSE ME!" It kicks it's tiny legs and I smack it again.

"Katrina, what was that for?" Asks Genkai, putting a thick finger over its mouth. "This thing can't hurt you."

"It was glaring at me, I tell you!"

"And it should," growls Hiei. "The master's crony should hate you."

I growl at it, and try to bite its horny little head off, but Kurama snatches it away in time.

"Now that we're all bothering to act our age," begins Kurama, with a look of disgust in my direction, "I'll begin. From the information this demon..." He flicks it hard. "...calmly..." Another flick. "...gave us today, we found out what we were dealing with. The demon's name is Sensu, and powerful in terms of strength and cunning in terms of strategy. But this thing doesn't know his exact powers, and can only say they change rapidly. A power level unlike any we've ever seen before, even in Tiguro---"

"Kurama, what's with Tiguro, anyway? Everyone keeps talking about him like he was some kind of Satan slave, or something."

"Okay, here's a brief summary. The Urameshi team went into a huge demon wrestling match like thing called the Dark Tournament at the end you got a wish of anything you ever wanted and Yusuke beat Tiguro in the final round so we chose to bring Genkai back and then we all lived happily ever after."

"Ummm, what?"

"Never mind," he rolls his eyes. "You'll find out later. As I was saying, Sensu is the most powerful demon in the world right now, and he plans to use that power. He will reopen Sakyo's lab and fuse the Spirit World and the human world. I mean, that's just what this scum told us."

"Sakyo?"

"Some rich demon guy, Shizuru Kuwabara fell in love with him, but he had to kill himself because he lost a bet."

My body swells. That freak? "SHIZURU IS PART OF THIS TEAM??????"

"Yes didn't you know? She's Kuwabara's older sister."

"That-that can't be...OH GOD WHY WAS SHE SUCH A BITCH THEN?"

"Well, she's been having trouble adjusting to the fact that Sakyo is gone. She's mad at the whole team now for not bringing him back to life at the end of the Dark Tournament. She in a constant irrational rage. Kurama told her early on that you were going to join us someday, so she went out of her way to harass you. Just bear with her, Katrina, she's going through a lot at the moment."

"Then why did you beat her up? You know when we first met? You had knocked her out!"

"That's true, but that wasn't really Shizuru and her friends. Just a decoy. I didn't want to hurt her or you, so I just made her swear to stop bugging you, mostly by using this." He pulls a rose out of his hair and flicks it, shouting "ROSE WHIP!" And suddenly, it elongates and turns into a thorny green whip. Petals are falling all around him

Hiei gives a rare laugh. "Kurama, you look even more like a girl than usual."

"Why?" He sounds hurt.

"Cut your hair."

"Speak for yourself, Gravity-Boy."

"MY HAIR IS PERFECTION!"

Oh god. They're fighting over fashion. What is this world coming to?

"Do you see this lovely white streak in the middle? Yours is just a mass of red!"

"My hair?! Yours looks like you were in a static factory!"

"Stop talking about yourself."

That does it. Even calm Kurama is charging at Hiei with a murderous look in his eyes.

(Dust cloud) (And you shut up, RebelWriter)

With a battle cry, Genkai leaps into the fray to play peacemaker. Now the dust is reaching molten levels, and Kurama is excessively using that whip, while Hiei isn't holding back on the sword slashing. After a while, a battered Genkai jumps out. "Let them kill each other," she mutters angrily, while massaging a cut on her left arm.

"They don't need the encouragement," I hiss urgently. "Um, guys...?"

5 minutes later...

Two very defeated looking men sprawl on the ground, panting hard. They glare daggers at each other and sit up painfully.

I laugh. "If you could see yourselves now..."

They jump. They grab their Commirs and stare at themselves. Both of their hairs are so messed up, you'd think they'd just taken a bath in a washing machine. Their eyes widen in shock. They stand up and start shouting every insult known to mankind at each other.

It's now that they realize Genkai and I are watching with interest. Both turn red and walk back to us, not looking each other in the eye.

SUBJECT CHANGE! "So what happens if Sensu...? Was that right? Okay, what if he picks up on Sakyo's research? What would happen?"

"The human world would crumble, in a figurative sense. All demon filth would basically eat everyone. And in short, to prevent that from happening, you will need retraining of a different sort. That is why Genkai is here. To teach you how to further tap into your energy."

"You-you-you-YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS! With her?!"

Genkai smiles cruelly without mirth. "Yep. With me. Nice to have you back, honey."

55555555555555555555555555

In the distance, Kuwabara hears something. "Urameshi, you hear dat?"

"Yeah. What is it?"

"It sounds like someone shouting 'NOOOOOO' in agony."

Yusuke shruggs. "Probably just the wind."

"Yeah, yur right."

They went back to eating their breakfasts.

555555555555555555555555555

A/N I'd be shouting 'NOOOOOO' in agony also if I had to retrain with Genkai. Hehe, sux for you, Katrina, dear. Mwahahahahahahahahahahaha! And I wanted to make it known that of course I made Kurama into a little girlish personality, he has no personality otherwise! Leave me alone!