We are going to pretend that that whole last episode did not happen because I don't think anyone likes it I know for a fact no Yusuke fans like it, and no Hiei fans like it, and I don't think any Kurama fans like it but I don't know I hope Kurama fans don't like it and Kuwabara fans, um if there are any tell me what you think, I don't know any I don't think anyone knows any because there are none, I think anyway this was a really long run on so….yeah, shut up Allie tee hee hee (nervous laugh)
The morning came with a grey sky and bleak clouds hanging in the air around the mountains like luminous pools of water. Sugoi awoke with a start at 4:45 to get ready for her fist fight in Japan…. Oooh it was so exiting she thought. She put on something Suiza would not be expecting, he ninja uniform. She grabbed her straight staff and jumped out the window down onto the grounds and ran two practice victory laps around the property. She flitted around like a sparrow until she finally had to stop and get to the dojo before 5:00 so she could she could see her playing field.
The ceiling was high, about two stories, and all the little squares within the doors were covered with thing white paper that as shining eerily with the grey light. High wooded beams ran along all the walls supporting the observation area, and bamboo mats lined the floors. Now that she knew what she would be doing she ran out of the dojo and managed to get herself up to the roof without Suiza noticing her which was much harder that it seemed. He had come early and was looking all around, obviously noticing he was not the only one away at this hour. He went inside and she waited for two minutes before she flipped through a window ripping the paper and breaking the wood silently.
She landed with no thump on the floor and waited for Suiza to turn around and notice she was standing there. One downside to being trained as a stealth ninja, no one ever noticed you. He turned around abruptly his staff an inch away from her neck. "Who are you?" he asked. She didn't say anything just brought out her staff and took her stance, her staff vertically an arms length away from her. Her eyes narrowed and she pulled herself away from Suiza's staff. She jabbed at him with one hand on her staff. He dogged and then the fight began. She threw her body into every move and pushing herself not to jab him in the head during one of the may time she had the opportunity. She finally became annoyed that he wasn't improving at all and slowed her pace; if she wasn't trying she might as well conserve energy. "Move your lazy ass." A voice from behind her said. And she felt a blade touch the square of her back.
Obviously she was not a perfect ninja. She turned around attempting to knock to sward from its owner's hand. But her Ojiisan dodged with no effort and she re directed her focus n Suiza. One smack to the head with her staff and he lay on the ground a small wound on the side of his head bleeding.
She turned to face her next pray. Her grandfather stood there with a similar beginning position she had started with. His sward tip was facing towards I'm though. He was making it fair game, now that his sward blade was not facing her they both had the equivalent to a staff. The fight went exactly the same way except for the fact that she never left her head open, but in the end she was the one knocked out on the floor.
She woke up with a woman with faded pink hair and wrinkled eyes looking down at her. The woman's hand was raised like she was about to hit Sugoi. Sugoi was suddenly aware of the fact that her cheeks felt like they were burning. The woman saw Sugoi's open eyes and stood up offering a hand to Sugoi. She did not take it but pulled herself up. She had not yet removed her mask, and was not going to, hoping that the woman would not ask. She didn't, the woman turned around and left they dojo. Sugoi stood there for a while thinking about what just happened. She was not used to loosing.
She pulled herself out of her thoughts and left the dojo, towards the house. She managed to slip in and up to her room without being noticed and pulled off her mask. Her dark hair cascaded down her back, and hung there limp and straight. She quickly changed out of her uniform and into jeans and a tee shirt. She left the room and went out to explore the rest of the house. Bedrooms were on this floor, and an office. Downstairs there was a kitchen, dining room, living room, and some other places to entertain. I wonder if I can go in the basement. She thought but before she could decide a gentle hand was set on her shoulder.
"Ojiisan, you scared me." She said turning around.
"sumimasen." He said and moved his hand. "I was just wondering how your fight went this morning, I guess you won, because Suiza was passed out on the floor with a head wound but, I was just wondering." He knew she thought. Of course he knew, he was taunting her waiting foe her top figure it out.
"Fine, I lost the second one I fought though." She said staring into his eyes. "Some crazy old man." She continued and she could almost see his blood boil. "Yeah it was kind of weird, but I left myself unprotected so I guess I deserved it." She said.
"Ah I see." He said and went into the kitchen. She fallowed him and when she came in he was chopping vegetables. "Grab a knife."
"What?" she asked.
"Grab a knife and help me." He said and continued to chop. She picked one up and expertly chopped all the greens. He put them in a pan and cooked them. As he did this he made her chop tofu to put in the soup and these weird little onions which she had thought were called scallops but it turned out that was a type of shellfish. Anyway all this went into a pot to cook, and while it simmered her Ojiisan sat at the table drinking tea. His eyes were fixed on her and whenever she looked away and then back again he was still looking at her.
The soup started to boil over and she quickly got up to turn off the heat, as she reached the stove Suiza came in. "humph." Was all he said and went to sit down at the table. Well he's just jealous that I won. She told herself. And burned herself with the soup. By the time she had gotten the soup into bowls her Obaasan had comedown, as well as Kat looking rather tired. She must not have gotten used to the time change. She though and brought over the soup somehow balancing all the bowls without spilling too much. She put her bowl down last and took her seat next to Kat and Suiza. Wow this is awkward. She though and scooted further away from Suiza's hard stare.
She ate quickly and as she was putting her bowl in the sink her Ojiisan said, "oh and you have school today."
"What! Nobody told me. I can't go to school like this I have a reputation to build up." And with that she ran up to her room.
"Do I go to school?" asked Kat.
"Well you cant not go." Ojiisan said and she to left but with almost no motivation she didn't care what her hair looked like. Oh shit hair. She though and remembering Sugoi's ear ran upstairs too. She found Sugoi trying to fix her hair so it would cover the ears but it wasn't working. "You think I can say that it's a headband?" she asked Kat once she was inside.
"Sure, people will just think your weird." She said sitting down, why had she rushed up here anyway.
"My ears were showing at breakfast huh?" she asked.
"Yep."
"Shit!"
"Well we could always go with the headband excuse."
"Yeah I guess your right, it's not that bad." She said trying to comfort herself but to no avail. She put on her lotion and changed her cloths and then went back downstairs fallowed by Kat. They went back into the kitchen.
"Oh and you have uniforms." Ojiisan said.
"I don't do uniform." Kat informed him panicking.
"Well you do now." He said. He got up and went upstairs to his office where he got to boxes and brought them down. He handed each girl one and they opened them carefully as if they opened them quickly they could be infected by some deadly disease.
"ew." Sugoi said. They were pretty ugly. But she didn't complain anymore and went up to change again. When she and Kat came down stairs this time Suiza was wearing his ugly uniform, and she almost said something but thought better of it. She pushed Kat out of the door before her and fallowed by Suiza left the house.
Everyone had gotten in the car and were now on their way to school. Suiza was talking about his friends, and about the school, and Kat and Sugoi were not listening. Sugoi had told her family that the neko ears on her head were actually on a headband, and that she wanted to wear them but she was still kind of freaked out. The car stopped in front of a school and Suiza got out and opened the door for the girls. Everyone went inside and Suiza took them to the office where a woman gave them their schedules and assignments. Luck for Kat and Sugoi Suiza was a grade higher so they had no classes with him. The woman from the office took them to their first class, math.
They stood in the door way while the woman told the teacher their names, and al that good stuff. Once she did this she brought them in and introduced them. "This is Sugoi Kerina." She said putting her hands on Sugoi's shoulders. Sugoi shook her hands off and stood there. She heard snickering and painfully wished she was anywhere but here. "And this is Katrina…"
"Kat, I'm Kat." Kat said and didn't let the woman touch her. The woman decided this was as good a time as any and left the room. The teacher showed them to their seats and gave them books. At the end of the period, a girl with brown hair was assigned to show then to the rest of their classes.
"Hi I'm Keiko." She said extending her hand. "I like your ears." She said.
"thanks." Sugoi said and shook her hand. She decided she liked this girl. Keiko showed them to their history class and then literature. At lunch she took them to meat some on her friends. She introduced them to a boy with black hair, gelled back, a boy with orange hair, who didn't quite look awake, and boy with bright read hair. All of them were looking at her ears as she came over.
"Are those real?" the boy with orange hair asked.
"What do you think?" Sugoi asked trying to make the wrong answer seem right.
"They are?" he asked.
"no." she said.
"This is Sugoi." Keiko said getting off the topic. "And this is Kat." She said.
"hi." The boy with black hair said. "I'm Yusuke. And that's Kuwabara." He said pointing to the guy with orange hair who was still staring at Sugoi's ears.
"I'm Kurama." The boy with red hair said offering her his hand. She shook it and she smiled and tried to get the guy with orange hair to stop staring at her, she hated when people did that.
"Excuse me." She said to the boy.
"Huh?"
"STOP STARING AT HER!" Kat yelled at his obvious stupidity. His eyes became quite wide and he looked away ashamed.
"Sit down." Keiko said taking a seat next to Yusuke. Sugoi sat down on his other side because it was now the only available seat, Kat had taken the one next to Keiko. Damn you! She though as she sat. Lunch was quite awkward and science wasn't much better, she had been given Yusuke as a lab partner, and he was nice, but she couldn't help but feel that he knew her ears weren't fake. She knew it sounded crazy but she just had a creeping suspicion.
Science ended and Keiko was there to get Sugoi and Kat. Kat wasn't happy thou she was complaining because she had gotten stuck with some freak, who couldn't measure the god damn water! Sugoi pitied her and didn't say anything. Keiko took them to the office to get their pe cloths but they only had two left. Kat claimed the over sized ones, so poor Sugoi was left with the shorts that looked like her volleyball shorts from back home. Tiny and tight. She didn't mind the length; it was the fact that they were tight. She decided she would bring her soccer shorts for next time.
Once pe was over all they had was the last period, thank god its just language. But she just had to get Latin. She hated Latin, she had taken half a year of it at her old school o she knew it and it helped her in English but not with Japanese. She didn't need help in Japanese she was fluent but she wished she could have taken something else. Oh well she thought as she walked into class. "accepticus!" the teacher said.
"thanks." She didn't feel like using Latin so she took her seat and didn't say anything all class. After the final bell rang Keiko met her with Kat who had gotten to take Spanish. Lucky Kat. Sugoi thought as they left the school. They met up with the three boys they had met at lunch. "We have to go." Sugoi said pulling on Kat's sleeve.
"Let's just stay a while longer." She insisted.
"What if Suiza leaves without us, do you want to walk home? I would be fine with it, I need to get some exercise….." she said.
"Shut up, you don't need exercise, I know you beet Suiza this morning, your Ojiisan told me you whooped him, he said he was passed out and had a head wound." Kat said. Sugoi smiled nervously.
"I don't know what your talking about." She said sweetly. As she kicked Kat's knee.
"You fight?" Yusuke asked surprised. She had not seemed the type; she seemed more like Keiko, sort of prissy, and annoying. He suddenly had a new respect for her.
"yeah." She answered.
"What do your practice?" Kurama asked suddenly engaged.
"Kendo, and wushu." She said.
"Wushu is Chinese, right?" he asked.
"Yep good, I had to explain that to my cousin." She said smiling. She hated having to tell people.
"That's cool, I don't know anyone who practices any Chinese style." He said.
"Well now you do."
"I guess so." He said with a little laugh.
"Any way, if you don't want to walk home Kat, we should go." She said.
"I'll walk." Kat said.
"Then ill run and leave you behind." Sugoi said.
"I don't care." Kat said. And so Sugoi had no choice but to go with everyone. They walked for a while until they came to an arcade. Everyone went inside and Sugoi's poor sensitive ears were met with loud beeping and what sounded like screaming. She couldn't help it, but her ears started to twitch and she noticed Kurama looking at them. She clapped her hands over them and stood against the wall.
-Youko did you notice her ears twitch?-
-I noticed her ears-
-I'm serious-
-me too. Yes I did see her ears twitch-
-if those aren't real why is she so sensitive to sound?-
-They are real-
-How do you know-
-well lets see, first they twitch, second she's sensitive to sound, and three those look too good to be fake-
-True-
-See I know, I always know-
-hm. Well I'm going to ask her-
-She's going to think you're a freak-
-So?-
- Your going to ruin my chances as well-
-What chances?-
-hm well… cat, fox…-
-Stop I don't want to know-
-Yep-
-I'm still going to ask her-
-Fine you do that-
- I will-
-Ok then do it-
-I'm going- Kurama walked up to her and she moved her hands away from her ears away far enough to easily hear him.
"What do you want?" she asked annoyed.
-she's not to nice when she's annoyed-
-Is any woman?- "I was just wondering if your ok, are you sensitive to sound?"
"Yes but what is it to you?"
"I just thought I could help I'm very sensitive to sound too."
"hm, I bet I'm more sensitive"
"I have the ears of a kitsune"
"Neko for me." She said regretting it all too late. Mentally she slapped a hand over her mouth.
"I see."
"These are fake." She assured him.
"May I touch them?" he said extending his hand.
"No you pervert!" Kurama drew back.
"sorry." He said and put his hand back down to his side. "What if I told you I had kitsune ears?"
"I wouldn't believe you." She answered.
"Come with me." He said and walked out side. She fallowed.
"where's Kurama going with her?" Yusuke asked.
"Who knows." Keiko said looking after them.
"Who cares?" Kat asked. Everyone else looked at each other but figured they better not say anything.
"They will catch up with us later." Keiko said and grabbed Yusuke's arm to pull him along. She didn't like him thinking about that girl.
Kurama walked into an ally way by the arcade and Sugoi fallowed. "I'm going to tell you now; Youko is sort of out of line sometimes." He warned.
"Who's Youko?" she asked.
"You'll see." And with that silver mist rose and faded and there stood a guy with shiny silver hair, white cloths, and to her absolute surprise silver kitsune ears.
"Your Youko?"
"yes." He said bowing slightly but never taking his eyes off of her.
"Can I touch your ears?" Sugoi asked fascinated by them.
"Of course." He said and lowered his head so she could easily reach them. She felt them and they felt just like hers, silky smooth and very shiny.
"Now may I feel your ears?" he inclined.
"fine." She said and stood there while he felt her ears.
"I like your ears." He said as he stopped petting them. "Now Kurama asked me to help you with sound sensitivity. I would much rather do something else but he insisted so I have to." Sugoi laughed nervously but didn't say anything. "Can you block out any sound?"
"Yes some."
"That's a start. Ok now close your eyes and concentrate on my voice."
"ok." She said shakily but obeyed anything to help her poor little ears.
"Are you concentrating?"
"Yes."
"Can you hear anything else?"
"Yes."
"What?"
"My heart, the fly by my ear, and the cars going by."
"Ok, now try to block out the cars."
"I can't."
"Yes you can." He said and walk behind her putting his hands around her ears so she couldn't hear anything. He slowly opened them so she could start to hear things. When his hands were completely gone from her ears. She could only hear him talking. "Now what do you hear?"
"Only you." She answered her eyes still closed.
"now open your eyes." She did and suddenly her world was full of sound. "Now what do you hear?"
"Everything."
"Ok it worked. Now focus in on the woman yelling two blocks down."
"I won't be able to hear her."
"Yes you will, just try."
"fine." Sugoi's ears swiveled to find the sound and sure enough she heard the woman yelling at her child for running out into the street. "Wow!" she exclaimed and hugged Youko. "thanks." He put his arms and his head in her hair. Sugoi tried to pull away but Youko wouldn't move. "Youko let go." She said.
"And if I say no?"
"I'll bite you, I have fangs you know."
"No I didn't."
"Well I do."
"Can I see?"
"No!" she said. She sucked in her breath so she was extremely thing and slipped out of his arms. "Sorry Youko." She said straightening up.
"fine." He let her go and then let suichi come out.
-Youko!-
-she wouldn't let me do anything don't worry-
-I'm not- Kurama went back to the arcade and found her standing behind Kat. She looked very serene and her ears were not twitching at all. He walked up to her. "I'm sorry Sugoi, I told you he got out of line."
"I know, it's not your fault." She said.
"Who gets out of line?" Kat asked, obviously Sugoi thought she would need to be more careful.
"someone." She said.
"Who?" Sugoi looked at Kurama who nodded, as if to say she won't believe you anyway.
"Youko." Sugoi said and to her surprise Kat stopped moving.
"Youko Kurama?" she said slowly turning around.
"yes." Kurama answered.
" I NEED TO SEE HIM!" she yelled grabbing the color of his shirt. He put up his hands in surrenderment.
"Ok, come with me." He said and she let him go, she fallowed him out to the same ally.
"whatever." Sugoi said and went over to Yusuke and Keiko.
OUTSIDE:
Kat stood there waiting for Kurama to bring out Youko. Finally when he did she threw herself into youko's arms. "Thank you so much!" she said. Youko was extremely surprised; he had not been expecting this.
"For what?" he asked bewildered.
"For 10 years ago."
"Um?" Youko had no idea what she was talking about.
"You killed my parents." She said overjoyed.
"I'm sorry."
"Thank you so much I love you I am forever indebted to you!"
"ok." Youko put up no fight against this and she did not remove her arms from him until he finally got away and had to ask. "Who were your parents?"
"Marry, and john tenshi."
"Oh right those were the bakas abusing their child."
"Because of my eyes." She said opening them up. Youko now saw the thunderbolts and saw the pain reflected back at him from the dark depths of her soul.
"I'm sorry." He hugged her again.
"It's ok, it was a long time ago."