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Chapter 5:
Jade slipped into the warm bath she had just created. She took out the scrunchie that had tied her up in a bun and her long hair toppled into the bath.
Hiei sat on the window sill where he could be found most of the time. He glared at the microwave that had just betrayed him again. The entire room was now covered in egg. Yukina walked into the room but stopped suddenly. After taking a moment to see the room's state, she turned her head to Hiei.
"Did you try to boil another egg in the microwave!" she scolded him He just huffed. "Well, clean it up." He curled his upper lip but then jerked his head behind him as he heard someone yelling. It was Yusuke.
"KAYKO! Wait. Cmon, Kayko!" Yusuke yelled after Kayko who was storming away from him.
"Why should I!"
"Oh, this again?" Yukina said accompanied with an exasperated sigh.
"Seems so…" Hiei mumbled. Jade walked into the room, drying her long black locks with a towel.
"What's going on?" she asked, leaning against the doorway. "And what's all over the walls?"
"Your father had an accident with the microwave…" Yukina complained.
"Again?" She looked over at Hiei as he growled. Then they heard the sound of flesh coming in contact with flesh. They all turned to see Yusuke laying on the ground, seemingly dead, and Kayko storming off into the woods. "What started that?"
"Any number of things," Hiei told his daughter. "They do this at least once a month."
"Why?" Both Hiei and Yukina shrugged.
"Just a part of their relationship."
"Hm…" Jade stared off into space, her long wet hair playing over her calves. She rolled her eyes, then said, "Where are the scissors kept?" Yukina pointed over to a drawer on the island in the kitchen.
"First one on the right," Yukina answered.
"Thank you." Jade began walking over to the island. She pulled out a pair of orange scissors and snipped off a large portion of her hair. Yukina's face went blank.
"WHY DID YOU DO THAT?" Yukina asked from across the room. Hiei just stared at the large amount of hair she was now throwing in the garbage. Jade played with her now much shorter hair. She made sure it was even, then let it go so it could fall over her shoulder blades.
"The length was bugging me… Besides, this way it has more body." Hiei raised an eyebrow.
"Body? How can hair of body?" Yukina and Jade both gave him the sideways P eyes.
"Men," they two said in unison.
"I guess you're right," Yukina said. "It looks much healthier. And shiny." Hiei rolled his eyes. Just then, Yusuke walked in, grumbling. "Hello Yusuke," Yukina greeted him.
"What started that scene out there?" Jade asked. Yusuke fell on the couch, letting out a sigh.
"My cousin's coming in this afternoon." Jade and Yukina looked from side to side then back to Yusuke.
"And that's… bad?" The aunt and niece asked in unison.
"You don't know my cousin…"
At the Subway Station:
The doors slide open as many people fled from the subway car. A girl a little shorter than Yusuke with silver hair stepped out as the doors closed right behind her. She wore a dark brown and tan skater hat, a white t-shirt with a gray long-sleeved, over the shoulder shirt. The shirt was hanging off to the right. She also wore tan cargos with black and red Vans. Her silver hair fell over her right eye and her left was a deep chocolate brown. She had a black backpack on her shoulder with headphones coming out of it and around her neck. She moved a rebellious strand of hair away from her face and behind her ear where a small silver hoop was placed on her ear. She smacked her lips together as she searched the crowd for one familiar face. She finally found one, just not who she was expecting.
"Hey Aunt Atsuko!" she yelled while waving her hand.
Back at the Temple!
Everyone sat there, staring at Yusuke as he spaced out, as if they were waiting for something.
"Yusuke!" Jade said.
"What?"
"Aren't you going to say anything?"
"Wasn't planning on it. Why?"
"You just said, 'You don't know my cousin'. That usually indicates that you are going to say something."
"Oh… well. She's really weird. My other two cousins, her older brother and sister, something freaky happened with them."
"Freaky?" Yukina repeated, questioning if he actually said that.
"Yeah."
"How so?" Hiei asked, thoroughly intrigued.
"Well, when Lotas, my cousin duh, was six, her sister, Artemis, disappeared. She had a lot of friends, real popular, she was even a cheerleader. Kindest girl you'd ever meet. She was a major skirt, but she was cool. That night she disappeared, she was just going over to a friend's house. She supposedly never got there. She also never came home. She was missing for four months. The night the police called the search, figure she'd never turn up y'know, Lotas went into her closet to get dressed to sleep. When she reached in, she grabbed something that wasn't her pj's. It was her sister's head. Mutilated, bloody, blue, and dried. She also had this terrified look on her face."
"Oh my…" Yukina muttered.
"Yeah, and she was six… then her brother, who was her sister's twin, was babysitting her exactly one year later. After Lotas went to bed, her brother, Aden, was watching this unsolved mysteries program thing. The story about Artemis came up, saying it was a supernatural act. That pissed him off. He didn't want to believe that a 'spirit' killed his sister. He didn't want it to be an act of god, that she was meant to die. He just couldn't take it. Later that night, Lotas woke up and went into the kitchen to get a glass of water only to find Aden hung from the ceiling fan, dead. She was only seven."
"He committed suicide," Hiei concluded.
"Some think that, other's think it was a curse that all Urameshi children be killed. Considering the amount of times that I've died, I believe it. Lotas does too. She says her time is coming. Says she can feel it. Her parents took her out of here, to the US. Now when I talk to her, she's real rude. Grew up in New York. She's more of a thug than me, and that's sayin somethin. Like I said, she's weird."
"Hm…" Hiei jumped out the window and walked out onto the porch. Before anyone knew it, he was gone. Yukina blinked a few times before realizing something very important.
"HIEI GET BACK HERE AND CLEAN UP THIS EGG!"
With Atsuko and Lotas:
Atsuko, completely sober mind you (yes I know, astonishing and completely out of character, but hey) drove down the road in her new company car with Lotas in the passenger seat holding her small back pack in her lap.
"So, Lotas, baby, to what do I owe this pleasurable visit?" Atsuko asked.
"Aunt Atsuko, what guy dumped you and broke your heart enough to make even drinking seem pointless?" Lotas retaliated.
"Har, har. Listen kid, you called on someone else's cell phone halfway here on an airplane with no explanation."
"And?"
"And I want to know what's up! Where's your Mom and Dad?"
"Where's Yusuke?"
"Don't change the subject on me!"
"Don't raise your voice to me, and keep your eyes on the road. You may be sober, but you still drive drunk."
"Don't tell me what to do, kid."
"But it's a safety issue."
"That's not what I mean!"
"Then what do you mean?"
"YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I-."
"Red light." Atsuko faced the road quickly.
"WHAT!" She slammed on the brakes and flew forward, panting. Lotas simply moved forward slightly. Odd, Atsuko wore a seat belt and Lotas did not.
"Are you sure you're a designated driver?"
"Fine, don't tell me."
"I think I'll take that offer." They drove in silence for a few moments. But, hey Atsuko, right? Can't stand too much of anything but booze.
"How long will you be staying?" Atsuko broke the silence.
"Barely get here and you already want me out?"
"No, I'm just asking how long. I'd hate it if I bought groceries for three and you left the next day…"
"Hm."
"Seriously, how long, kid?"
"Dunno…"
"A few days? Months?"
"Possibly years…" Atsuko's eyes widened.
"Years? What happened?"
"They're dead."
"Huh?"
"They're dead…"
"… oh…"
To be continued…
CrashedmyHarley or KJ or however I sign this thing! I'm tried damn it! I know it's only nine, but I'm still getting accustomed to high school hours and marching band and hating all football players! … Except Jamie. He's OK I guess. Blink, blink so… tired… mommy, I want a muffin…