Disclaimer:
Okay first off this is a fan fiction which is not completed...anyways, I did not create the characters from Yu Yu Hakusho—nor do I own it--, only Yumi, Aya, Adrian, and Jase or whoever else pops up that is not from YYH.
Chapter I
Two months later --
"Tell me again why we're out here IN THE RAIN!" Yumi complained, trying to dodge the few raindrops that started to come down.
"We are out here to pick flowers!" Aya cheered. "You have to come; you're part fox demon ya know."
"Yah and cat, cats hate the rain!"
"Yeah? But foxes love flowers. Oh quit whining, Hugh? Oh! Look at that one!" Aya exclaimed as she ran to pick up a pink rose. It was part of a bush of bright pink and red roses. Aya absolutely cherished their sweet odor and soft, velvety texture; she immediately started to pick up as many as she could carry. "Mm, they smell so good. Come over here and help me."
"Uh-uh." Yumi said. She was now on top of a willow tree. "You can not make me come down there. It's starting to rain harder."
"Hehehe...that's what you think..." she whispered while quietly conjuring up wind; that was one of her powers--that and manipulating plants. Yumi's powers revolved around ice and shadow. She soon had enough wind and then, ever so quietly, flung the wind she conjured straight at Yumi. Yumi fell right out of the tree landing on all fours, as a cat would. She, of course, got wet.
"AHHHHH RAIN!"
"HAHAHAHAHA! THAT'S RICH!" Aya laughed so hard she was rolling on the ground, crying.
"Ughh! DIAMOND DUST!" Yumi yelled. All of a sudden the rain drops came to her hand at her call and started to transform into ice crystals; they looked like a billion small daggers. Suddenly, all the ice crystals started to move toward Aya, slowly. Aya realized what Yumi was doing-- the ground was starting to freeze from where Yumi was standing, and it was summer.
"Now Yumi, think about this. I-I'm the only family you have left..." Aya squeaked.
"I know. That's why I'll give you a ten second head start."
"EEEK! YOU WOULDN'T!" Aya cried.
"One-two-three…ten--"
"Okay, okay. I won't do it ever again. Just don't hurt me, please."
"That's what I thought." Yumi said with a mischievous smirk. She transformed the remaining ice crystals and all the other rain into snow and started to throw snowballs at Aya with amazing speed. Aya dropped all her flowers trying to dodge the oncoming assault. She too started to make snowballs which started a humongous snow fight. It almost seemed like a blizzard.
They were having fun until Aya and Yumi were interrupted by a fire ball the size of a bus coming straight toward them. They barely had enough time to dodge the assault. The fire blast definitely came from a strong demon, everything it touched turned to ash right away-- including the rose bush that Aya loved.
"What the--"
"EEEP! It destroyed the pretty flowers!"
"Hugh?"
"The rose bush. It was so pretty and NOW IT'S GONE!" Aya cried.
Yumi rolled her eyes. "I hate to break this to you, but I think that's the least of our worries right now."
"WHO KILLED MY FLOWERS?" Aya screamed to the forest in the direction of the blast, ignoring her sister. Two figures emerged from the shadows of the forest. They were very tall and looked like boys, but it was to dark to make out any features.
At Aya's question the two walked into the clearing just made and straight towards them. It was their exes: Jase and Adrian.
"Hello beautiful," Jase said to Yumi. "I told you we'd be back."
"Hn."
"Hello Aya. You look wonderful as usual," Adrian told Aya.
"Murderer!"
Adrian laughed awkwardly. "You always did love flowers a little too much."
"Cut the small talk. What do you two want," Yumi asked Jase glaring at him with pure hatred.
"Besides getting your butts kicked." Aya added. Yumi turned her glare to her sister. "What? It sounded good..."
Ignoring Aya, Jase simply replied. "We want you two of course--and your beautiful pendants. You know they're worth a lot of money in the demon world."
"Yeah right, like you could take them," Yumi mocked stroking the purple gem, cat-eye pendant she wore around her neck; she unsheathed her katana she had strapped to her side.
"Don't be too sure about that," Adrian replied. "We've come up with a few... Alternative methods for getting you girls to obey us," At that they pulled out what seemed to look like two golden bracelets, however something was different about them. Aya noticed that the golden bracelets were emitting small amounts of spirit energy, but only a little. Could those be...Oh no! Aya thought.
"AHHHHH SOMEMBODY HELP!" She suddenly screamed.
"What in the world do think you're do---" Yumi tried to say but was cut off by Aya grabbing her hand and pulling her through the forest. They were running at an amazing speed, but not their fullest since it was still wet outside and raining a little; Yumi froze the ground with every footstep in an attempt to make Jase and Adrian slip; however, the boys were still following close behind.
What are you doing? Yumi asked her through telepathy.
I've seen those bracelets somewhere before, I'll fill you in later. But for now...
Now what?
You'll see----
"What..." is all Yumi could ask before Aya ran straight into a group of boys that were walking down the trail in the forest. There were four of them. One was very tall and ugly with orange hair, another was just a little bit shorter with red hair and stunning green eyes, another about the same height with slicked back black hair and brown eyes, and the last was short (but still about two inches taller than Yumi) and had black hair with a white streak through it that seemed to defy gravity, and crimson red eyes. Aya ran into the red head making Yumi fall on top of the short boy.
"What in the world –who are you two?" the red head asked.
"Hn, you should learn to watch where you're going," the short one mumbled, picking Yumi up off of him and brushing himself off.
"Hiei! Excuse him-"
"Please help us!" Aya suddenly shouted. She was now holding on to the red head for dear life. "There coming to get us!"
"Who?" the one with slicked back hair asked.
"Them!" Aya shouted pointing to the forest. Right on cue, Jase and Adrian walked out of the forest toward them.
"So, this is where you two ran off to," Adrian said. "Who are your new friends Aya?" Aya just shrieked a little and pulled the boy closer to her. Yumi only stood staring at her sister with a peeved expression on her face. Only her sister could tell that it was directed at her.
You could try to fit the role just a little bit ya know! Aya 'thought' to Yumi.
Why should I? They'll all just get killed anyway. Besides, I don't "do" damsel in distress.
Just trust me!
Hn. Okay I'll "try"--
"That's them! They are the ones who are going to hurt us! Oh, please help us!" Yumi cried, mockingly, trying to make the impression that she was scared.
Never mind... Aya thought.
Awe I thought I was doing so good too. Yumi laughed telepathically to Aya.
"What? I don't know what's going on, but if you're planning on hurting these girls, I'm gonna stop you man!" the ugly one said, charging at Jase. How idiotic... Yumi thought to herself as Jase rolled out of the way and with one fluid motion, knocked him out with a single punch to the head.
"Kuwabara! That's it! You're going down!" The one with slicked back hair yelled. He, too, charged used the same method and ran straight towards both Jase and Adrian. "Shot Gun!" he yelled. His fist glowed with blue spirit energy and at the word, shot gun, tiny bursts of energy shot out of his palm towards Jase and Adrian. Impressive Yumi thought. But still not good enough... Jase and Adrian got hit, but weren't destroyed. They were just hurt, and mad...very mad.
"How dare you ningen!" Adrian yelled conjuring up a thunderstorm around him. "Now you will know what it feels like to get hit by lightning!" He hissed throwing a lightning bolt at the boy. He dodged the first couple of bolts, but was taken by surprise when Jase came out of nowhere throwing two fully charged lighting bolts while his brother threw fire blasts. With no apparent escape, the boy was hit by all the blasts but two, knocking him out. The smell of burnt flesh lingered in the air. Ouch Yumi could tell that he was a very strong mortal, but he had obviously underestimated his enemy.
"Hn, those idiots," the short one mumbled, unsheathing a hidden katana in his black cloak.
"Girls. You may want to hide somewhere," the red head calmly stated.
"Right!" Aya said, pulling Yumi along with her.
"No! We don't--" need your help! Is what she meant to say, but was muffled once again by Aya pulling her off behind a nearby rock.
"Shh, we can watch from behind here."
"What is going on?" Yumi hissed. "We can take care of them ourselves. Why are you doing this, and how did you know those boys would be here!"
"Shh. Okay I'll tell you a little bit now, but I don't have time to explain it all. I knew these guys would be here because I could hear two of them fighting---"
"What?"
"Evidently two of them can't get along very well... Anyways, you know as well as I do that there's something different about them--especially those two," Aya said pointing at the short boy and the red head. She COULD tell that they were both demons of some kind, but she wasn't sure about the red-head; he had a human scent, but also a demon one as well.
"Okay you're right. I can sense something, but that doesn't explain why you wouldn't let me take care of Jase and Adrian."
"Right, like I told you before there's something unsettling about those bracelets. I think I've seen them somewhere a long time ago, but I can't remember. All I know is that they're bad news for us; I know for sure that they can probably take our powers away." Yumi cocked her eyebrow. "For good."
"Are you sure about that?"
"Of course I am! If I could remember more I'd tell you! Sheesh!" Aya yelled, her anger growing.
Yumi raised her eyebrows. "Okay, fine. I believe you," she sighed.
"Thank you!" Aya cheered pulling Yumi into a bear hug.
"G-get off! Do you want on my bad side today?" Yumi said peeling her sister off her. "Yuck. Anyways, let's watch how these two fight!" Yumi and Aya peered eagerly over the side of the rock they were behind.
The battle was going surprisingly well. Jase was fighting the short boy and Adrian the red head. The two boys seemingly had the upper hand. The short one seemed to be a master swordsman and the other seemed to be extremely good with a whip. The swordsman had Jase cut up on the arms and legs, which meant that he had to be extremely fast, and the redhead had what seemed like a whip only different. It came from a rose. Yumi, and especially Aya, could smell the sweet scent the rose petals gave off.
For about twenty minutes the battle was basically the same. Nobody wanted to give away what special techniques they had up their sleeves, so they fought hand to hand--or at least sword and whip to hand. Adrian and Jase were cut up pretty bad, but not fatal. They soon realized that they would have to try some of their techniques to beat the two. Besides, they were starting to get really mad, both Yumi and Aya could tell that much, and when they're mad they fight serious. Jase and Adrian started to go all out--lightning attacks, fire attacks, the works. The fire didn't affect the short boy at all, but the redhead did get hit pretty hard. Then something happened all at once. Jase and Adrian were preparing their final blows, but so were the others. The short boy un-strapped the bandages he had wrapped around his arm and the redhead changed into a...Kitsune? The redhead changed into the very demon that she and her sister were!
Yumi looked sideways at her sister; she saw exactly what she expected –her face was shining. Yumi suspected Aya liked the boy now, but after seeing him as a Kitsune; it was only a matter of time before he was hers. Besides, he looked even cuter as a Kitsune in her perspective. He had long silver hair and fox ears with a gray and white fighting outfit on. Yumi shrugged it off and continued to watch the short boy; she was far more interested in him. The bandages were off. Only what seemed like a long dragon tattoo remained entwined down his arm.
"DRAGON OF THE DARKNESS FLAME!" he yelled. Yumi's eyes widened. What? Nobody has been able to master that technique...Yumi thought.
Evidently he did. A humungous black spirit dragon erupted from his arm and moved straight towards Jase and Adrian; at the same time the Kitsune had charged up an immense solar beam and fired in unison with the dragon master. Their attacks combined and devoured Jase and Adrian in an instant.
"Sweet..."
"Awesome..." Yumi and Aya muttered in amazement beneath their breath. The fight was over, surprisingly and suspiciously easy, and the two boys were obviously out of power. The short one slumped down to the ground and the Kitsune changed back into a redhead human again. Yumi and Aya ran over to see if they were hurt.
"That was really awesome you two!" Aya cheered as she helped the redhead up. "I can't believe it. You're a Kitune?
"Uh… yes I am. Ouch..." he shyly stammered; he was blushing a little.
"Are you okay?" Yumi asked the short boy.
"Hn. I'm fine"
"Let me help." she pulled him up by the arm and transferred some of his weight onto her.
"Hn." he said as he shrugged her off.
"What! I was only trying to help you know! We didn't even wa-" Aya smothered her yet again with a hand over her mouth.
"Heh... W- W-What she means is thank you," Aya stuttered. Yumi bit her hand and Aya let go immediately. "Ouch!"
"Hn." Yumi gave her sister a triumptive smirk. "You shouldn't have done that."
"Hmph." Aya sighed. "Anyways, what are your guys' names?"
"Hugh? Oh! I'm Kurama, that's Hiei," he gestured to the short guy. "The one with slicked back hair is Yuske and Kuwabara is-"
"The extremely annoying and ugly one," Hiei finished for Kurama. Kurama gave him a scolding look. "Hn."
"Sorry about that." Kurama apologized. "Enough about us are you two okay?" he asked. Never thought he'd ask Aya thought to Yumi. You wouldn't... Oh yes I would... at that Aya suddenly made herself look like she was going to faint.
"Now that you mentioned it..." she said as she sort of "fell" towards Kurama. With one smooth movement he caught her.
"She's passed out!"
"On give me a break..." Yumi muttered. Only Hiei caught it; Yumi could tell because he slightly smirked. Yumi walked over to Aya and started to scratch behind her ear. Aya started to laugh and tap her foot on the ground.
"Mmmmmm. S-s-stop it!" Aya giggled. Yumi stopped and kicked her sister in the butt. "Ouch! What did ya do that for!"
"You said stop it, besides I can't have you flirt this nice boy to death! His energy is drained!"
"SO! I was only having a little fun!" Aya whined. That sparked a little fight between them yet again. Aya bounced back up and slapped Yumi in the head. Yumi responded with a punch to her gut, it went on like this for quite some time. Hiei and Kurama just watched –Hiei looking amused and Kurama confused.
"Umm girls?" Kurama said. "Do you have a place we can rest in for awhile? We seem to have lost a great deal of energy, and our friends may need some healing."
"Hugh?" They both looked up. Yumi was halfway through a punch to Aya's head.
"Oh! Of course! You can stay in our house as long as you like!" Aya announced, a little bit too cheerfully, as she slipped from beneath her sister and behind Kurama. Kurama smiled at her, Hiei simply walked over to Kuwabara and slung him over his shoulders. Yumi picked up Yuske since her sister was too busy helping, a.k.a flirting with, Kurama.
"This way." Yumi said as she directed them to her and Aya's house.
20 minutes later...
"This is your house!" Kurama exclaimed as they all walked up the stone steps. It was a brick mansion that had a beautiful garden all around the house. There were neatly trimmed rose bushes everywhere mixed with purple and blue irises.
"Yup!" Aya said as she ran over to one of her favorite rose bushes and took a big whiff. "Yup. This is the place!"
"Come on. If I'm going to heal Yuske I have to lay him down," Yumi said as she led them inside the house. It was beautiful inside too. The living room had oak floors with beautiful crimson couches and curtains. It almost had a medieval feeling to it like it was a castle. Beautiful flowers lingered in the corners of the room and in vases on top of shelves or tables giving the room a slight flower scent. There was a grand stairway that curled in an upward spiral to the second floor. Pictures of the two girls hung along the walls; some of the pictures were of when they were little and some were of them with other friends and family. Paintings also graced the walls with their presence.
As soon as Aya entered the house too their pendants began to glow a little, covering the girls in a bright white light. As soon as the light diminished the boys saw that Aya and Yumi transformed. Aya transformed into a Kitsune with longer silver hair and light blue eyes. She had a white fighting kimono on with light pink trimming and a rose pattern above her breast. The kimono was slit down one side and she had on white boots too.
Yumi transformed as well, though it was a bit different since she was also half cat demon and Kitsune. She had darker brown hair and bright blue eyes as well, but unlike her sister, she didn't have fox ears. Instead she had long pointed ears, like an elf. She was wearing a black fighting kimono that was slit on both sides all the way up, with purple trimming. She had purple leggings and black boots on. She also had a black tail with a white tip.
Yumi lied Yuske down on the couch in the center of the room and immediately began healing. White light glowed from her palms as his body was covered with the same bright light. The burnt flesh began to disappear as if it were never burnt, not even a scar lingered. "There, now he should be alright. He just needs to rest." She looked back at Hiei and Kurama, only to find stunned expressions. "Ugh what's wrong?"
"Um, Excuse me for asking but what did just happen?" Kurama asked quietly. "I mean we could already tell that you two were strong demons, but...why did you transform just now?" He was staring at Aya now.
What! Is he checking Aya out! Yumi thought.
Hehehehe, I think he is. You know I can work with this. Aya told her sister.
Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of. Yumi replied.
I'm not the only one being checked out.
WHAT!
Look at Hiei... Aya said. Yumi turned around quickly to find Hiei just looking away, blushing slightly. Yumi turned a new shade of red.
"Well you see..." Aya began to explain. "It all started when we were younger. Right Yumi?"
"U-ugh... Ya." she gulped as she pulled herself together. "We got into a fight because we were uncomfortable in our home, so we cast a spell over the house so that we would always transform into our true forms." Yumi said, still looking at Hiei with a slightly puzzled expression.
"It makes our home more comfy to us," Aya explained.
"Oh I see now..." Kurama said while taking a seat on the couch.
Yumi's puzzled expression quickly turned to a scowl. "Wait a minute. How could you guys tell we were demons?" she asked.
Hiei answered. "Hmph. It was kind of obvious. Ice was trailing behind you and neither of those idiots we were fighting were ice demons."
"Hn." Yumi glared at him as she walked to the other side of the room taking a seat on the windowsill.
"Hn." Hiei only stood with his arms folded shoulders drooping. Yumi glanced at him only to find his head sort of drooping. Hn, not so tough after all. This should be amusing. she thought as she slipped from her perch on the window.
Yumi smiled pleasantly making her sister eye her suspiciously –she was never this nice to strangers. "Hn, you two look tired. It's already 10:00 at night, and who knows how long you guys were traveling in the forest." Yumi said picking Yuske up from the couch. "If you follow me I can show you to your rooms that you can stay in." Oh well, I must be getting to her finally. Aya thought as she shrugged it off.
"Hn. Right." Hiei said picking up Kuwabara too. Yumi walked up the stairs with Hiei following close behind.
"Shall we go?" Aya asked Kurama giving him a playful smirk. She grabbed his hand and ran up the stairs dragging Kurama along with her –not that he didn't like it. He enjoyed flirting with Aya, she wasn't like any of the girls at his school or anyone he could remember as Youko Kurama. The only problem was, was that he was too tired to do much of anything, and he also had a lot on his mind at the time being. He knew he had seen those bracelets somewhere before...he thought that they were used to seal the power of demons.
"Okay here we are." Yumi stated. "Those are the guests' rooms down that hall," she said pointing to three rooms next to each other. "My room is across from the last door and Aya's is-"
"Right here!" Aya said clinging to the first door on their left.
"--right beside my room..." Yumi finished with a sigh. "Anyways you guys should be getting to sleep. We all seem a bit tired."
"Hn. Fine." Hiei mumbled. Yumi heard it and playfully punched his shoulder.
"Cheer up Sunshine," she teased. She found it interesting that she found someone who was like her and didn't open up to anyone, was sarcastic, and quiet most of the time. She knew she wasn't going to be able to resist picking on him.
"Don't call me that." he said, clearly this time, as he entered the first door to the right and threw Kuwabara on the couch. Yumi shrugged and did the same with Yuske, throwing him on the bed. "Come on. I'd better save your friend before my sis kills him," Yumi said. Hiei smirked as they both exited the room, joining the others in the hallway.
"Before we go to bed we'd like to know your names," Kurama said. "We didn't really catch them before."
"Oh right! We kind of forgot," Aya said blushing slightly. "How embarrassing..."
Yumi rolled her eyes. "My name is Yumi."
"And I'm Aya."
"Nice to meet you both," Kurama said.
"Right. Same goes for us. Now you two should really get to bed now." Yumi said as she walked down to her room. "Good night Kurama and Hiei. Oops! I mean Sunshine!" she sang. Before Hiei could get to her she slipped inside her room.
"I SAID NOT TO CALL ME THAT!" he shouted as he reached for the doorknob. His hand started to sizzle, slightly, as he hung on to it, making him jump back and let go. "Ouch! What the-"
"Hehehehe, nice try Hiei! You can't get in that way. She's holding on to the knob." Aya giggled.
"Hn. Whatever." he mumbled as he entered the room across from Yumi's and slammed the door shut.
"Heh. Good night Kurama." Aya said still giggling at the sight of Hiei blowing on his hand.
"Night." he said as he entered the only free room left. Aya waited until Kurama closed the door until she walked over to her sister's room. She did her special knock to let her sister know it was her and not Hiei looking for revenge. Yumi opened the door a crack and looked behind her sister.
"Ya alone?" she asked.
"Duh, I wouldn't trick you and let Hiei get you." Aya said, smiling. Yumi just cocked her eyebrow and let her in. She closed the door behind and locked it. "I'd forgotten how different our rooms are." she said sitting down on Yumi's bed. Yumi's room had black walls with purple carpet and purple bed covers. She had a cherry wood dresser with a mirror along the right side of the wall and a glass case on the left. The glass case held her beloved dragon sword and whip. On her walls hung other swords and knives she collected over the years, and the ceiling had a charm on it that made it look like the night sky.
Aya's room had pine green walls with different kinds of flowers all over her room. Her bed was black and she had black, iron, glass shelves on which she kept all sorts of things, mainly her whips and trinkets she stole over the years. Her carpet was white and her ceiling was the same as her sisters except for her's changed as the day moved on. When it was daylight outside it was daylight in her room and vice-versa.
"Ya, I guess they are." Yumi told her sister as she took a seat beside her. "What do you want?" Aya grinned and sat so that she was directly facing her sister. "Crap..." Aya just giggled.
"So, what do you think about our visitors?" she asked while trying to look innocent.
"They are pretty good fighters. Thank you and good night."
"Come on. I already knew that. "
"And I already know what you want to talk about, and I'm not interested in any of those guys like you obviously are. So there." Yumi pulled her sister by the arm and tried to make her leave.
"Oh no you don't. I know you like someone, you know... A certain mister Sunshine?" Aya giggled again. She loved to torture her sister so. "You obviously think he's cute."
"So what? You obviously are in love with that yoko out there."
"Hehehehe. He's so cute! And when he changes into a Kitsune..." Aya was lost in her thought. Yumi smacked her sister upside the head.
"Snap out of it! Geez...How can you fall in love so easily with people? You don't even know him."
"It's love at first sight." Aya said with stars in her eyes. Yumi only sighed, it was no use. Even though she didn't believe in love at first sight herself, her sister wasn't like that. She was open, and took to everyone instantly –that was what got her in trouble most of the time.
"Whatever you say, but remember. You said that last time." She finally was able to maneuver her sister to the door and out into the hallway.
"B-b-but that was different! Hey!" Aya yelled when she finally realized what Yumi was doing. "Don't kick me out, you never answered me..."
"Okay, okay. I think he's cute now go!" Yumi hissed between her teeth. Aya gave her sister a quick hug and ran down the hall before Yumi could catch her.
"Sweet dreams!" She said as she closed her door. Yumi sighed, again, and shut her door behind her cursing beneath her breath as she got ready for bed.
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