Hello, and yet again I'm back. I'm happy to be finally writing this story out! It's a lot of fun to write out Narue, she's just a bit neurotic at times. Well, back onto the story.
It was dark in Narue's room when she finally woke up, her head groggy from the sedatives she had downed before she slept. Lazily she opened her eyes that almost seemed to glow in the dim light and cast them around the small area.
"Ugh…" she groaned as she rested her head in her hands, letting the aftereffects of the pills wear off before finally getting up onto unsure legs. The air that wrapped around her was humid and she could have sworn that she was swimming instead of walking as she pulled off her blouse and adjusted the long undershirt she wore underneath so it wouldn't show when she pulled on a plain, long sleeved shirt and walked off, not bothering to take a shower, she'd do that later.
The heels of her boots clicked against the floor making her realize she had yet to have taken them off.
"Oops," she laughed nervously to herself as she made her way back to the training room…
"Okay, what's with our new trainer?" Kuwabara suddenly burst out, his words echoing in the large, bare training room. Yusuke looked up his cards that were sprawled out on the hard dirt flooring of the arena and shrugged, bored with his game of solitaire.
"How should I know… and why would I care if she's suicidal?" Yusuke asked off handishly, flipping over another card, a three of hearts.
"It's just… Did anyone actually want to hurt her?" Kuwabara asked, lazily looking over at Yuske, Kurama and Hiei.
"Might I remind you that I took no part in that training," Hiei muttered, bored again by Kuwabara's stupidity.
"Shut up!"
"Hey, she wanted me to stab her, so I did," Yuske replied, calmly flipping over an ace of spades and grinned at the plain card.
"I did not want to hurt her. Besides, she probably studied us, she knew I wouldn't," Kurama replied, snapping closed the thick textbook that was lying out in front of him.
"Don't tell me you're studying, its break!" Yuske cried out, exasperated at Kurama's diligence to his studies.
"No, I'm just looking up something," Kurama replied, opening another book.
"What?" Yuske asked, bored and now interested, since he had already played four games and yet to have a victory.
"Old demon history, the legend of the Ancients and the Great War," Kurama replied.
Slowly, Hiei looked over at his old partner in crime, an odd look on his normally emotionless face as he registered what Kurama had just said.
"What's it about?" Kuwabara asked quickly, looking over so fast he nearly rolled off the platform.
"What's what about?" A voice called out and they saw Narue, standing there, gloved hand on hip. She cocked her head playfully at the spirit detectives and grinned.
"Nothing," Kurama mumbled, closing the book and standing up, ready for training.
"This training involves Yuske Urameshi only, so the rest of ya'll can just sit down and relax," Narue called out into the ever chilled room.
"What do you mean?" Yuske asked as his climbed awkwardly onto the platform, followed quickly by Narue, who simply vaulted gracefully onto the thick concrete slabs.
"I want to test you all to see how strong you are, simple. I recommend everyone else watch, you'll have to go through this too. Well…" she looked over at Hiei and sighed, "All of you 'cept Hiei. I've already fought him, so there's no need."
"You've fought Hiei?" Yuske blurted out before quickly shutting up.
"Hn." Hiei darkly made his way to the bench in the room, annoyed, bored, and slightly curious to see how the fight would turn out, though he wouldn't admit it to anyone.
"Yes. Now then, all I want you to do is fight me to the best of your abilities, got it?"
"Yeah, yeah," Yuske shrugged it off as he flexed his fingers, anticipating the fight to come.
Quickly, she held up three fingers and nodded to him and quickly lowered them, counting out the numbers into the chilled room. When the last finger came down Yuske darted forward, his fist flying out with surprising speed. Noticing it last minute Narue dropped to the floor and rolled out the way. Yuske stumbled for a moment as Narue scurried away from him, her knee grazing against the floor of the platform, tearing the soft fabric.
"Damn," Narue muttered as she swiftly stood up.
As she stood, she suddenly felt Yuske's fist collide with her body, sending her flying back. Her hand shot forwards, grasping onto the rough concrete platform and she managed to stop herself from flying out of the ring.
"Gotcha!" Yuske cried out as he ran forward again, ready to give Narue exactly what she wanted.
With surprising speed Narue darted forward, running at Yuske and at last moment placed her hands on his shoulders, using his body as a spring board to flip out his way. As her right hand left his shoulder, stain of blood marred the white fabric.
"Damn! These were my favorite gloves too!" Narue muttered as she looked at her right hand. Three of the fingers were shredded to nothing but scraps of cloth and strings, revealing tiny cuts that laced scarlet across the thin digits.
"Don't tell me you're giving up that easily!" Yuske called to her and she looked up, briskly shaking her head.
"Never!" she cried back, indignant as Yuske ran to her again, this time his fist glowing with spirit energy.
She attempted to move away but didn't succeed, the pain from the blast raced across her chest as she flew into the wall, her back slamming into the thick stone. Spider web cracks issued from her as she slid down the wall, slumping to the ground for a moment before miraculously standing up, wincing slightly but still able to move.
And the fight issued like this for some time. Yuske would dart forward, and ever so often Narue would escape the attack but most of the time she went flying. It was almost inhuman how much pain the girl must have taken, as she never quit or asked him to stop, even though blood trickled out of the corner of her mouth and down her pale skin.
"I can't do it; I can't just keep hittin' you!" Yuske finally cried out, backing away from Narue, who was still standing, though somewhat weakly.
"And why not, I'm not dead," she replied, wiping the blood off her mouth.
"You're not even fighting back! What am I supposed to do? Act like you're some human punchin' bag?"
"If you choose not to fight me, it's your choice," Narue calmly replied, shrugging her shoulders, and then quickly winced as something popped when it shouldn't have.
"I'll fight ya' but you have to fight back! This is nothin' but beating someone to a pulp! Kuwabara gives up a better fight then you!"
"HEY!" Kuwabara indignantly.
"If you don't start fighting back... I'll… I'll…"
"You'll what?" Narue asked, her sarcasm masked the innocent look on her face.
"Fine, I'll start to fight back, if you want me to so badly."
"Alright, that's more like it!" Yuske punching his fist into his palm and grinned at her, charging forward, same as always.
"Predictable," Narue muttered as she caught his fist and then quickly grasped the other, her fingers clutching around his knuckles.
"What are you gonna do know?" Yuske asked, smirking arrogantly at her, getting ready to kick her.
"Wrong move," she whispered and the next thing they all knew, Yuske suddenly pulled away from her, shaking his hands in the chilly air of the room.
"What the hell was that?" Yuske cried out, looking at his hands which were spazzing terrifically for some still unknown reason.
"Electricity," she replied, "Creepy static electricity here in this place, huh?" She replied. "Alright then, trainings over, sound good?"
"What!" Yuske exclaimed as he tried to calm his still twitching fingers down.
"You're hands are shot, and I really don't feel like continuing our fight since you broke my hand… So… see ya'll tomorrow, same time!" she called out as she walked out the door, leaving three out of the four spirit detectives stunned. (Hiei has too much dignity to actually be "stunned")
"Wha… What's her deal!" Yuske demanded angrily as he shook his fist at the door then winced.
"She obviously doesn't want to fight," Kurama replied as he stood up, brushing off some non-existent dirt from his shoulders.
"Then she can't fight! Why is she training us! We should be training her!" Yuske demanded as he cast a look over at Kuwabara who nodded in agreement.
"Hn. Just because she chose not to fight a idiot like you does not mean she can't fight," Hiei added in darkly as he walked out of the training room to God knows where.
Kurama sighed deeply as he watched his small friend walk off and then looked around. A shiver wracked through his body for an instant and an idea struck him.
"It's quite chilly in here, I'm going to go and make some tea, you two want to join me?" he asked, motioning over to Yuske and Kuwabara, who nodded gratefully. And with that they left the training room to head to the kitchen.
"It'll be great to warm up, why does she keep it so cold in there?" Yuske asked as he flung the door open to the kitchen and then took a surprised step back. Sitting at the dining table was Narue, who was blowing the steam off a cup of tea.
"I don't like heat. Tea anyone?" Narue waved her hand over to the general vicinity of the old iron teapot.
"Looks like you read our minds," Kurama replied, cheerfully pouring himself a cup of the oolong tea.
"Nothing of the sort, I just like tea after a good fight," Narue replied, taking another delicate sip.
"Ah… that reminds me, sorry Yuske for not giving you a worthwhile fight," she added, bowing her head respectfully.
"You should be," Yuske retorted as he sat down at the table in a huff.
"Yuske," Kurama chastised as he sat down.
"OUCH!" Kuwabara suddenly cried out as he took a sip of his tea, promptly burning his tongue.
"Oh yeah, the tea's really hot," Narue replied cheerfully as she watched him fan his hands in front of his tongue, trying to cool it down.
"You could've warned me!" He cried out.
"Probably. Hey, Kurama you were studying something when I came in… what was it?" she asked as she looked over at the young red-head.
"Oh… ancient demon history, the 'Great War' and the Ancients," he replied and then promptly took a deep sip of his tea.
"Hm? Why were you studying that?" Yusuke asked, bored and waiting for his tea to cool.
"Just… well, it really nothing," the red head replied softly, taking a delicate sip from the thick ceramic cup.
"Just nothing? Nothing is ever "just nothing'" Narue replied looking up at him with a grin on her face when suddenly Kuruam suddenly passed out…
Trenity170: Alright-y! End to chapter 3!
Kurama: Why did I pass out?
Trenity170: Hm… guess you'll just have to find out in chapter 4!
Kurama: -.-;;… You don't know yet do you?
Trenity170: . … maybe…
Kurama: Just get on with the reader review responses…
Trenity170: My good friend AbhorsenSabriel87 says "sigh you wrote what I said, yet you didn't listen. You are so mean. Hiei: Isn't that the same for you? AS87: Shut up! I listen to people when they review my stuff! Ah well, write more Tren. Remember to put in the music bit in the fourth chappie"
Hiei: Hn. I keep being used in reviews… this has got to be against union regulations… goes off muttering something about his contract"
Trenity170: heheh. What music part? Oro! .! And fine, I'll listen…
Kurama: kristanite says "MsK:dies Narue's clothes and hair purplepaints her room purplegives her purple contacts that do nothing to help your eyesight, a purple contact case and purple glasses Narue: What have you done to me/ MsK: Ya loobloo leelovee! Chy: ME TOO! Shanti and Cristi: We like blue! Narue: is instantly back to normal…eh…eh?"
Narue: WFF?O.o too much purple!
Trenity170: back to sanity… kittyluv says "Pretty cool so far. After that little stunt I don't think Narue will be underestimating Kurama gain. Update soon!"
Narue:rubs welt on head yeah… not underestimating the red headed bishie again! Ow…
Kurama: Heh….;;
Trenity170: Um… Niana Kuonji says "Nice catches, Narue, but it's always that last attack that gets you. Kurama would use his friends to reveal his opponent's patterns, so nice writing on that. Kurama: I wouldn't put them in danger!... why would you need to? The dimwits practically throw themselves into it on a regular basis. Looking forward to next chappie. Now please excuse, I am off to Alternate Universe! sprints off"
Kurama: Heh heh…
Narue: Truly a heartless bishie ain't cha'?
Kurama: I am not!
Trenity170: Stop it… and last of all! This one's from HieiFan666 "Yusuke hon, Yusuke. You kept spelling it Yuske. That's not even possible in the Japanese language. Oh well, I guess it's an easy mistake. Anyway, why was Kurama dreaming of those two people, who are those two people? I'm sure it will all be explained soon enough. Also, is this not going to be a HieiOC, cause not many other fics can keep my attention for very long unless that's what it is. Any other pairings are just...to easy. The HieiOC fics are more developed...most of the time. Anyway, Plz update soon. Ja ne"
Narue: No, this is not a HieiOC fic, but this has a very developed story line with Hiei. You find out about his childhood! Fun! -
Yusuke: Hiei had a childhood! O.O!
Hiei: What did you say baka ningen? starts to pull out sword
Trenity170: As for the people in the dreams, they are very important. Enjoy… HIEI! DON'T KILL YUSUKE!
(the end of chapter 3. See ya in chapter 4)