Shade- Yeah here

Something that totally sucks: YYH started over… AGAIN! It is really annoying me now. It took forever to get to Sensui and the demon portal thingy and now we're back to Yusuke being hit by a car. It is so not fair.

Most of this will be pointless. I hate myself.

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Chapter 11: Earthquake

Jackie was sitting on her bed with her headphones on listening to music and bobbing her head to the music. She opened one eye and looked at her star covered ceiling in awe. Slowly, her eye drifted to a picture on her wall of a large meteor shower. Looking longingly at this, she opened her other eye and sat up, taking her headphones off. With the music coming from the phones from around her neck, Jackie just looked at them wanting to see them and their beauty.

'Once in a lifetime, literally, I will be able to see those. And with all the godamn trees around here the only place I can see them is from my roof top. Shit.' Jackie turned her music off and moved the headphones from around her neck and walked to her window seat that was covered in red and black material. She sat looking out the window at the tree tops. Suddenly, she remembered Hiei standing a top those trees just today.

'How in the world could he have gotten that high up, and then just disappear?' She thought. She moved from a sitting position to on her knees as she tried to open her windows. When she did open them, she stuck her head out into the crisp, early fall air. She gazed up at the roof that was just tall enough to see over the trees. Still staring at it, she did not know someone was watching her.

'Don't tell me she is going to do it again.' Hiei said in agony. If he had to stay at the hospital again and listen to her constant babbling about soccer and music he thought he would die. Luckily, she stuck her head back in and closed the windows. Hiei sighed in relief for her not attempting to do her own impossible again. He looked away from the house and tried to take a nap.

"What were you looking at Hiei?" Kurama's voice filled his unwanting ears as his eyes opened in anger.

"Nothing fox, what do you want?"

"I have noticed that you are not doing your homework and I figured I would help you on it." He said with the smile that he was known for.

"I don't want to do stupid ningen work. I am still surprised you are doing it. This is a mission, we shouldn't be subject to human stupidity." Hiei spat out in hatred and crossed his arms.

"Well Hiei, at Linden, if you fail to complete your given homework, you have to go to extra school on Wednesday to finish it. I figure by doing this to help you, you won't have to stay at school longer since I know you don't much care for it." Kurama said, trying to convince him to no avail.

"Hn, I still won't go to that no matter what. I just want to go home." Hiei then stood up and left the room. Kurama shrugged and sat down to do his homework.

-Next day after school-

"How's about everybody comes over to my house and we pig out?" Sonya suggested to everyone excluding Claire, Denny and Nimbi since they had gotten detention.

"In memory of the three brat packers, I do say we should." Holly put in after Sonya.

"That will be great! What will we be pigging out on? Saginaga? Daifuchi? Oh, oh, maybe some Takioka!" Botan said in excitement. (A/N all those are made up, not real, inexistent… yeah)

"I have no idea what you said but no! Like, junk food. You know soda, chips, pounds of candy etcetera, etcetera, etcetera." Sonya said for clarification.

"Oh." Botan lowered her head.

"Don't worry Botan, the stuff Sonya has is awesome… and spicy!" KC said and flicked at Sonya's hair which, in reaction, she swatted him away. When he spoke Botan perked up instantly.

"I'm just glad that we don't have soccer practice today, coach has been running me ragged. My leg is even starting to hurt again a bit." Jackie said.

"Don't tell us that kind of stuff now Jack, don't freak us out when we need you."

"Oh don't worry, I'll be fine for the games." Jackie reassured her friends just as one of Jackie's preppy teammates came up behind her.

"Yeah, you better be ok for the game Jackie, or else I'm gonna do away with that bullet shooter you call a leg. I'm not gonna let you screw us up." She then walked by liking what she had said to her. Jackie just smiled watching the girl's perfectly straightened hair bounce from side to side as she walked before she striked.

"I see 'self confidence' isn't part of your daily vocabulary like 'blow harder' and 'higher and faster please' is bitch." She shot, still smiling. Everyone started laughing except Kurama who thought both girls were quite rude, and Hiei who was just smiling at the comment. The girl whipped around and stepped up to Jackie

"What'd you say whore?" She asked looking down since she towered over Jackie with her fake stilettos and the fact that she was 4 inches taller already. She gripped her fake Prada (sp?) bag in anger.

"Since when was I the whore? I'm an innocent next to the indulgences you've committed. I'm still surprised you haven't had to take a nine month leave of absence." Jackie threw at her. The girl just gapped her mouth to the underclassmen below her.

"When I say nine month leave, I mean being pregnant if you couldn't do the math in your head at first." Jackie clarified for her. That just pissed her off more. She brought her hand up above her head and started to bring it down before Kuwabara interrupted.

"Stop it!" He said grabbing the girls arm before it hit Jackie. Jackie, however, had moved to the side expecting the blow so she had gotten ready in dodging it.

"Let go of me you pervert!" She yelled at him and swung her bag into the face of the idiot. Whatever she had in there was quite heavy and Kuwabara got knocked over.

"Bye, bye red rash." The girl said and walked off. Jackie just glared at the prissy Junior.

"What was that about? Botan asked concerned looking at Jackie.

"Oh she's just pissed that I'm back since she's second string for my position. I took it away from her last year when I was a freshman. She thinks cuz she's older she deserves the spot, but I am hell of a lot better than she is." Jackie said happily talking smack of the girl.

"You would find it quite interesting how many of the most popular girls are on the soccer team with us, and they don't like us. Over all, we're not the best family in the world." Claire said.

"But we still win anyways so it doesn't matter in the end when we hold up that pretty trophy."

"Yes, just one more game till we get to the finals. And who would have guessed that we were going against Seattle High School? I hope they don't have knives hidden in their shin gaurds." Sonya said as they all waited for the cross walk to turn the little man aside from the blinking red hand.

"That's lovely you know that?" Jackie said in slight anger. Her friends had told her about the girl stabbing her because of her dad, a total hardcore soccer fan and, on down time, a boxer… boxing the wrong people. She felt sorry for the girl and didn't press charges against her since that would have made her dad even more furious. Jackie couldn't stand people that would do that to others. She graciously called them demons.

"Come on, let's go." She said as the light turned to the man, allowing them to cross.

-Sonya's house-

"KETCHUP!" Sonya yelled from her living room to the kitchen. Sonya's mother was gone for the week so she had the whole house to her self. She was actually staying at Claire's house so she'd be supervised and stuff but she had a house key to get in. Right now, the whole group was playing Spin the Dare, their version of Spin the bottle and Truth or Dare. The only difference was no kissing and no truth. If the bottle spun to you had to take the dare the spinner gives you, and no going out.

Right now, Sonya was readying a 'puke bowl' as she called it for Yusuke. She dared him to eat anything she could mix and fit into one of their popcorn bowls. Thus far, she had mint ice cream, shreds of frozen waffle, sour cream, soda pop, Brussels sprouts, vinegar and now, soon enough, ketchup.

"What are you trying to do? Kill me!" Yusuke said as Sonya slathered on the red sauce and covering all the other nasty foods.

"No, just trying to make you puke. That's why it's called a 'puke bowl', der!" She said smiling and laughing as she still squeezed the ketchup out.

"Ok, it's near perfect now." Sonya said just as Kuwabara and K.C. came from the kitchen to watch Yusuke consume the puke bowl. She looked up and smiled and stood up and went into the kitchen to get the last ingredient.

"This'll be great!" Kuwabara exclaimed getting excited. Yusuke glared at him as he was sitting cross legged in front of the bowl on the nice beige carpet. He glared at the bowl quizzically, fearing the taste. Just then, Sonya came back into the living room with her hands behind her back. Everyone looked up to see her devious smile as she sat down on her shins facing the bowl and Yusuke. Still smiling, she pulled her hands from behind her back, and put a single cherry on to of the mound of food. Everyone smiled and some laughed.

"Remember Yusuke, you have to eat the whole bowl otherwise you get a double dare, and I will warn you, you don't want that from me." Sonya told him. He looked between her and the disgusting bowl a few times before picking it up and holding it under his nose. Finally, he started to eat the contents of the bowl very slowly. When he finally finished it, he had red all over his face from the ketchup coating. He put the bowl down and his eyes were wide as he tried to keep the food inside of his stomach. Finally, after he thought he had conquered the mixture of food, his cheeks blew up big like a chipmunk's and sprinted to the bathroom. Sonya smiled proudly as everyone else burst out laughing.

"Just make sure you don't barf on the carpet! You'll have to clean it up then!" Sonya yelled to him. She stood up and sat on the couch and high fived Jackie.

"And that's why it's called the puke bowl." She said and let out a sigh and flipped her black hair behind her.

"Ok, since he's sort of occupied at the moment, I'll spin for him." Holly offered. She moved from her seat on the couch to right in front of the bottle, and then spun.

"Ooh, whoever Holly gets is gonna get iittt… bad too." Jackie said while smiling and taking a drink of her pop. She watched the bottle as it slowed to a stop and was pointing at her. Everyone turned to her and smiled.

"Ah shit." She said out loud.

"Ooh, what can I do for Jackie? Hm… what's her deepest fear in the whole wide world?" Holly said playfully knowing full well what Jackie's fear was. Jackie went wide eyed as she was thinking 'NO NO NO NO! ANYTHING BUT THAT!' Of course, no one could hear her. Jackie looked freaked as she saw the devious smile on Holly's face. At that, she knew she had to do it, what she knew Holly would dare her. Otherwise her double dare would be something stupid, like jump out of the second story window and do a belly flop.

"I dare you," Holly then stood up with her finger pointed the same direction as the empty beer bottle to Jackie, "Jackie Marie Estrella Fernandez Conover… to climb a tree." Holly stood with her hands on her hips and smirking at Jackie as she had a scared look on her face which turned to slight anger. Sonya and K.C. just stared in amusement for what Holly was daring Jackie to do. However, Botan and the guys were totally confused at this dare. Climb a tree? How hard is that? Hiei did not know that Jackie was afraid of heights, he just thought she was a stupid clumsy human who falls off rooftops. Yusuke had just emerged from the bathroom and heard the dare and he was a bit fumed.

"WHAT! I had to eat a whole puke bowl and all she's gotta do is climb a tree! That's messed up!" He said.

"Trust me Yusuke, right now Jackie would totally go for the puke bowl as opposed to this." Holly informed him, making him take on a confused look like the rest. Jackie stood up to object to the dare. She was just about the same height as Holly if not a little taller and she stared into her brown eyes.

"Do you really think this is the best idea Holly? We only have one last game before the finals, I could break my leg again!" Jackie said and put her hands in the air for more effect.

"Don't worry Jackie." Holly said while walking past her to the door and putting on her coat. She turned the knob and opened the door to the small house.

"You'll be perfectly fine. Now let's go!" Everyone stood up and left the house.

-Outside-

Jackie stood under a large tree with many protruding branches. She looked up in fear of the specimen. Everyone had made a semi circle around her and waited for her to climb to as far as Holly wanted. Jackie turned her head toward her torn jean skirt wearing friend and waited.

"30 feet." She said. Jackie went bug eyed at the height knowing there was no possible way she be able to make it. She hid her fear behind her eyes and walked up to the tree.

"Fine." She said and started scaling the tree. Jackie never looked down once at the ground to see the distance between her and safety. She didn't know how high she was till Holly told her to stop. At this point, Jackie was breathing hard and still refused to look down. She sat on the branch she rested on and looked up towards the sky.

"Wow, I can't believe she did it." Sonya said in disbelief. (Hehe)

"This is so bogus! Anyone can climb a fricking tree! I want my dare and my stomach acids back!" Yusuke yelled.

"Yusuke! You don't get it do you?" Holly said to him, he shook is head.

"Jackie," Holly started, grabbing his arm and walking closer to the tree and pointing up, "is afraid of heights."

"Oooooh." He said while nodding like a really stupid and amazed kindergartener.

"Can I come down now?" Jackie yelled from her little perch at a good 40 feet in the air. She tried her best to look straight forward and not see that she was really high in the air with very little support under her ass.

"Yes, you can come down now." Jackie felt so relieved yet still not free. She turned slowly and gripped the branch she sat on with all the energy she had that it actually cut into her skin. However, she still didn't loosen her grip. Slowly and surely Jackie made it to 40 feet above ground, 35 feet above ground, 30, 25 but at 20 feet she had some problems. Problem: She looked down.

"Uh, Jackie? Are you okay?" Holly asked her friend who was frozen in place and shaking as her eyes seemed gray and glazed over with fear. Holly stepped closer to the base of the tree and looked up at Jackie's seemingly deer caught in head light state.

"Jackie?" Now, everyone walked closer to the trunk to see why Jackie was so fazed.

"Oh my God! Look what you did Holly!" Sonya said while hitting her in the arm with the back of her hand.

"OW! What! It's not my fault!" Holly said as she rubbed her newly forming bruise.

"Okay, okay, okay! Everything is fine." K.C. interjected. He walked near the two feuding girls with his hands out to keep their fighting minimal.

"Jackie! Give me a response! A response of any kind!" He yelled. A good 30 seconds passed with Jackie doing nothing but staring at the green grass at the bottom. No one knew what to do, they just hoped to God that she wouldn't let go. Everyone stood there for about five minutes with nothing happening in the 'save Jackie' category. They had seen Jackie do this before. She'd get phased out from something and wouldn't move or talk, her eyes would take on a weird rock solid gray color where she wouldn't ever blink. They just had to wait as her memories past her by. Over the years of knowing Jackie, they've seen that every time she goes into one of her spells she comes out with a story to tell. A story of her past was usually what it was, actually, it was always a story of her past. And weird ones at that, no one ever believed her when she talked about them, they always thought she was just delirious and talking gibberish.

"Will she be okay?" Botan asked worriedly.

"Usually when she does this she is. But she's in a tree right now, if she falls then we have a problem. We're lucky that she's got incredible grip on that tree branch."

"Yeah, but it's slipping." Yusuke pointed out as he was watching her grip. He was right, she was slipping.

Everyone just stood under the trunk not knowing what to do. They couldn't go up and get her. It was like waking up someone who was sleep walking, very, very bad. Just then, a weird movement came from under their feet. It was a weird constant movement that wouldn't slow down or speed up. What was going on?

"Oh my God! I'm so nervous that it feels like everything's shaking!" Holly said aloud. At that moment, everyone took notice of the strange movement under their feet. As they did detect that the earth beneath was moving, they all saw that it was an earthquake, and it was getting stronger and stronger by the second now.

"Shit!" Sonya said as she fell to the ground like everyone else did. This was a BIG earthquake that was occurring. The only place that the guys could look was up, up at Jackie to see if she was falling. Her grip was still loosening as the earthquake joggled her body wildly, causing her feet to slip from their place on a branch.

"JACKIE!" Came a blood curdling scream from Holly who was on the ground trying to dodge flying debris from the other trees around her. Jackie's hands slowly slipped out of their tightness with the branch that had cut through her skin form her strength just minutes before.

"Some one catch her!" Just as Sonya yelled that, Jackie finally slipped from her grip and started falling the twenty feet of air that divided her and the ground. As she came down like a log from so far up, all the guys tried to get under her body to catch her but the forces of the earthquake were throwing them every which way that no one but Hiei could keep a stable stance near the tree. Just as she came down Hiei grabbed her before she could collide with the ground. She was incredibly light since she was so short. There was very little fat on her body.

"Come on!" K.C. yelled to Hiei. Everyone ran to Sonya's empty house to be safe under a table or something. Hiei ran with Jackie's unconscious body the whole way.

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Shade- Sorry this was long and pointless. It's really hard to get to the plot but I will be soon. Again, I hate myself. Review or I won't update… trust me, all of you know I have the capacity to a long time without updating and some of you don't want that.