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After the Storm: Chapter Two Douzo Yoroshiku

"Hello, Miyouku." Miyouku turned her head to smile warmly at her older brother Akira. He was tall, with long dark hair like her own and a strange German-ish accent. "Stop at the arcade today?"

"Of course. Shin dragged me there." She punched him in the arm (it was a sign of affection, I swear) and headed for the stairs. "Can you bring me up some miso soup later? I'm dying of hunger."

"What do I look like, a man servant?" he demanded indignantly, hands on his hips and a mock scowl on his face.

Miyouku paused for a moment, looking at him thoughtfully, then nodded. "Yes, yes you do. Miso soup." And then she trotted up the stairs, smiling slightly as she heard Akira gasp in mock hurt.

Sighing loudly, Miyouku flung herself onto the bed, staring at the ceiling. Today, she decided, totally and completely SUCKED. Closing her eyes, she thought back to before, remembering the sad, distant look on Shin's tan face as she remembered her dream from before. Even before Shin had shown her the marks, Miyouku had sensed them and knew where they came from. Akarume was the only person- scratch that, monster- she knew that would go to someone like Shin and question her. Shin would never talk and Akarume knew it. He only did it to hurt Shin and, in doing so, hurting Miyouku herself.

"Whatcha doin'?" Shin was on Miyouku's window ledge, watching her with sharp eyes the color of emeralds. Yellow-ish emeralds, but emeralds all the same. "You look kinda…sadish."

Miyouku didn't answer at first, then murmured, "What if he comes back, Shin? What are we gonna do?" She started trembling, the memories flooding back. "What if he-"

"HEY! THAT'S MISO SOUP!" Shin had obviously decided not to glomp the somewhat stunned Akira and instead belly-flopped onto Miyouku's bed. "WHY DIDN'T YOU ORDER ME ANY MISO SOUP!" Shin smacked her friend with a pillow, grinning. "And you call yourself my best friend!"

Miyouku retaliated with her own pillow pummeling, eyes flashing. Even though the thought of Akarume was still tickling the back of her mind, a challenge from someone like Shin took priority- for now.

Akira bellowed as he grabbed both of them and flung them from the bed. "Hootendorf!" Akira had a habit of making up his own words. "Do you really want some miso soup that bad, Shin?"

"No." She sat cross-legged on the floor now, still grinning. "I just thought it'd be fun to belly flop. YAY WATERBEDS!" She flung her arms triumphantly in the air.

Akira rolled his eyes and say down next to his sister. "Medication would be a good idea."

"Like you can talk," Miyouku commented dryly, and was promptly tackled by her older sibling.

"At it again, are we?" Abadon was sitting in the window sill, much like Shin had been, silvery white hair falling into his scarred face. "Can't we all just learn to get along?"

"No. That'd be really, really boring." Shin stretched and yawned. "Sit down, Abadon. Let's get this pow-wow a-goin'!"

Miyouku gave Shin a strange look, slowly started to realize what was going on. "Shin…? Why is Abadon here?"

Abadon looked at her, seeming to be hurt. "What? I can't visit you anymore? What's up with that?"

Shin, however, was looking pretty guilty. "Well…um…we were worried about you…so…we decided that…"

"No, you decided," Abadon interjected, golden eyes flaring. "You just told me to head over here after the arcade."

"OK, I decided that we should come over here and come up with a 'protection schedule' for you. I don't want Akarume coming back."

"If he does, I will kill him." Akira's face was uncharacteristically straight, his eyes flashing dangerously as he stared straight ahead. "He will never hurt my sister again."

Miyouku looked around at the strange group surrounding her. A black kitsune with a German accent, a red kitsune with the grace of a drunken hippo, and a white kitsune with a scarred face from an angry god. And they were all her friends, willing to die for her in whatever painful way anyone could imagine. "No."

"What?" Abadon's voice was flat with shock.

"No. I won't let him hurt you. He's already screwed me up for life- I'm not letting him do it to you."

Akira started to argue, but Shin held up her hand. "No, don't argue. Whatever. We'll leave you be, Miyouku."

Abadon and Akira looked at the red kitsune like she was crazy, but kept their mouths shut. They figured that someone like Shin would have some idea as the what she was doing. Or at least they hoped.

--Scene Change!—

Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara gazed up at their "new" school, Tooi Gakko. It was VERY early morning, at least in Yusuke's terms, and nobody was heading for school yet. Their school uniforms were green and black, with white highlights to offset the dark colors. Kuwabara personally thought that the only one of them that looked remotely good in the uniform was Kurama, whose slim frame and long red hair matched perfectly with the outfit. Damn kitsune.

Hiei, from his place in a tree (as always), watched his friends, amused at their wonder. The building wasn't too large, at least by his standards, and its architecture wasn't amazing. Just a normal looking high school…

Kuwabara and Hiei's eyes widened as they suddenly sensed a huge amount of spirit energy heading towards them. As Kuwabara turned to look in the direction the energy was coming from, Hiei ran through the trees, eyes sharp. What he found made all three of his eyes blink in shock.

Miyouku and Shin were strolling down the road to school, talking about something called a "period". Completely uninterested in punctuation marks (and probably less interested in the actually subject they were talking about), Hiei none-the-less decided to follow them.

He was yet again caught by surprise when Shin looked straight at him and squeaked. As fast as electrons swirling around a molecule (because I hate clichés), he was gone.

"MIDGET IN A TREE!" Shin pointed dramatically at the tree where Hiei had stood seconds ago.

Miyouku glanced at the tree. "What are you talking about? There's no midget."

"I swear, two seconds ago, there was a midget standing in that tree." Shin was staring at the tree like she barely believed herself. "He was all short and pointy haired and stuff…you know, the scary kind of midget."

Miyouku gazed at her friend for a moment. "…Are you sure you don't hallucinate or anything on your period?"

"What the! No!" Shin's face turned as red as her hair as she stormed towards the school building. "There WAS a midget. And he was a good-looking midget, too. THERE HE IS!" She took another dramatic pointing pose and stuck her pointer finger straight at the Yu Yu gang, which had just been joined with said midget. "THAT'S THE TREE MIDGET!"

"I have no idea what you're talking about," Hiei growled, narrowing his eyes at her from his place beside Kurama. "And stop pointing. I'm not a midget."

Miyouku raised her eyebrows at them, slowly letting her gaze wander from Kurama's politely smiling visage to Kuwabara's slack-jacked staring. "Are you guys new? I'm sure Shin would remember someone smaller than her." She dodged her friend's attack, not letting her eyes shift from Kurama's face. "And I'm sure I'd remember a fellow kitsune."

Kurama's pleasant smile broadened. "Yes, we're new. I'm Shuichi, and this is Hiei. He is not technically a midget- he's about five feet if you count his hair." His vibrant green eyes flashed with amusement as he felt Hiei scowl at him. "This here is Urameshi Yusuke, and the one staring at you so rudely is Kuwabara Kazuma."

"What's your real name?" Miyouku asked as Shin scowled at him, her eyes flashing angrily.

"Does it matter?" Shin stood to her full height, which wasn't much, and glared at Kurama with as much conviction as her little figure could conceivably hold. "Look, Giniro- I don't like your kind. You're all sniveling, perverted bastards." She ignored Miyouku's protests and continued to try to stare him down. "If any of you even think of hurting Miyouku, I won't castrate you. Hell, I won't even think about your balls, or any other part of you- I will destroy your soul. You got that? Especially you, Giniro. I'll be watching you."

Kurama bowed his head politely, smile still on his lips, though it had dimmed somewhat during her little tirade. "Of course. I wouldn't have it any other way, though I have no intention of causing your friend any harm- Miyouku, was that the name?" He turned to give her a charming grin, his hair falling perfectly into his face. "Hajimemashite."

Miyouku hesitated and gave him a nod, her eyes becoming guarded. "Hajimemashite…"

Shin grabbed her arm, hissing into her ear, "Don't you do it again. Don't go falling for another kitsune."

"You don't like humans either, Shin- What am I supposed to do? Fall in love with a rock?" Miyouku pulled her arm away, frowning slightly. "Besides, there's no way in hell I'm falling for a guy like that. Too girly."

"You know we can hear you, right?" Yusuke asked dryly, not in the mood for this sort of conversation.

"And you don't have to worry about Kurama falling for you," Hiei added slyly, giving them a little sneer. "There's no way in hell he'd fall for a girl like that. Too manly."

"I wonder if his dick is proportionate to his body size?" Miyouku chuckled at the stunned look on Shin's face and the pissy look on Hiei's. "Come on, Shin- let's go to class."

Yusuke watched them walk away, scowling after them. "Well…She's hott. And if I wasn't afraid of that little red headed one coming and sucking my soul out, I'd definitely flip Miyouku's skirt."

Kurama straightened, slipping his hands into his pockets. "Come on, my fellow champions of justice- let us explore our new school." He headed towards the building, the smile still lingering on his lips, a cheery little bounce in his step.

"What the hell do you think has him in such a good mood?" Kuwabara asked, more than a little surprised. "Those two girls were total jerks to us…"

"Who knows? Kurama's weird like that. Maybe he's just glad that they realized he was a boy." Yusuke started after his kitsune friend, starting to smirk. "There is good news, though."

"What's that?" Kuwabara hopped the school gate, watching Yusuke slip through a hole in the fence.

"We can call them bitches, and it would still be correct terminology." Hiei vanished after he said this, obviously not looking forward to stepping anywhere closer to the two women who just doubted his manliness than absolutely possible.

Rhapsodic Melody: Meh…that chapter felt kinda short. You have no IDEA how much I wanted to write "I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico!" That would make me the biggest loser imaginable…but I had such an urge…anyways…not really feeling up to updating if no one's gonna comment. My heart is broken. –tear- And I'm almost done with the sixth chapter in After the Storm. It's kinda weird how all my stories are named after precipitation, eh? Oh well…see ya next chapter!

Oh, by the way- Douzo Yoroshiku is used in Japanese greetings, as is Hajimemashite, and giniro means silver. I didn't know what else to call him. -sweatdrop- And I'm only in third year Japanese (I rather stupidly decided to skip a year and sometimes have no idea what the hell I'm talking about). So give me a break...