Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or Di Gi Charrat. Just for the record.
Recap:
Boring stuff happened and the team ended up taking Naomi to see Koenma. He simply looked at her and said, "She'll do." "I'll do what?" She asked bewilderedly. "Really?" Yusuke asks. "Really what?" She asked, still confused. "Yes," Koenma stated. "Great!" Kuwabara shouted. Naomi was still utterly confused. Kurama held his hand out to her. "Welcome to team Uremeshi. That is, if you want to join, Miss Takimura." She looked at his hand, and, after careful consideration, finally decided to shake it. "Sure! I've never been on a team before! Who knows? It could be fun." She smiled. Kurama smiled. Hiei didn't. Kuwabara was shouting like an idiot, and Yusuke smirked. Congrats.
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That night Naomi stayed in the guest bedroom of Kurama's house, not having gotten back before midnight. Fortunately she had left a message on her parent's answering machine telling them that she may be spending the night at a friend's house. Her parents simply adored the idea of her having friends.
She woke up, as usual, slipped on her hat, and put on a plain t-shirt and a light blue skirt that reached down to her knees. As she walked down stairs, she became uncomfortably aware that Yusuke was staring at her. "What?" She asked him, reaching the bottom and stifling a yawn. He answered, "Why're you wearing a skirt? You can't train in that." "Train?" She asked him, surprised. "Yeah. We're fighting in a tournament in a month. We have to train." She blushed. "But… I can't fight!" "Don't worry. They're just demons. You don't have to worry about them." "That's not what I mean! I mean… I can't fight. I don't know how!" Yusuke simply stared at her for a moment before saying, "Well, I guess we'll have to train harder than I thought. Now go put on some pants." She blushed even more, and shook her head ferociously. "Come on!" "No. I don't want to wear pants." "Why not?" "Because." "Stop acting so weird. And don't you ever take that hat off?" Kuwabara asked her, appearing behind Yusuke. He strode forward, making an attempt to pull her hat off. "No!" Naomi quickly put her arms over her head, stopping them from taking her hat off. "Whoa, okay, whatever," Kuwabara said, backing off. She sighed and put her arms down. Immediately, he quickly snatched the hat off. Naomi squeaked and put her arms back up, protecting something the others couldn't see on her head. Yusuke pushed her from behind. She put her hands forward to stop herself from falling, and then closed her eyes. No, no, no, no, no. Silence. She hesitantly opened one eye and looked around. Everybody in the room was staring at her. She opened both eyes and sat down on her knees. She closed her eyes again and looked down, about to start crying. No, no, no! "Naomi?" Kurama asked hesitantly. She got up and ran back to her room, crying. Before she got to the stairs she heard Yusuke say, "Well, now we know why she doesn't want to wear pants," And Kuwabara asked stupidly, "What? Why?"
Sitting in front of the dresser in her new room, apparently for a whole week, she looked in the mirror at her tear stained face. They saw. They saw! She glared back at her orange cat ears. Why did they have to see? It was her special secret. Her parents never talked about it, they didn't really care. But everybody else did. That was why she had started wearing that hat. She even managed to get special permission to wear it in school. A knock on the door woke Naomi from her memories. Kurama's voice called, "Miss Naomi? May I come in?" She rushed to her bed and pulled the covers over her ears just before he opened the door and sat down next to her.
"Its okay, Naomi. It's really not that big a deal." She turned her head the other direction, not buying it for an instant. "You know, Hiei has a third eye," he went on. She turned to face him again. "Really?" "Really. Now why don't you change into some pants and we can start training?" She nodded, and he left to let her change.
She slowly came back down the stairs, staring at her feet. Suddenly Kuwabara shouted, "Wow, a tail too? That's so cute!" She quickly looked up at him, blushing ferociously. Yusuke explained, "Don't mind him. He has a thing for cats." She smiled a little and started purring, her tail wagging slightly.
She sat down on the couch between Kurama and Yusuke. "Okay. I guess we have to start with lessons, which puts us a little behind schedule," Yusuke began. "I'm sorry," she muttered. "No problem. First, you need to choose a weapon. We've got swords, knives, I think a scythe, and some big-ass sticks." She giggled a little at his last option, and then decided to go for the knives. Yusuke and Botan went out to the back of the house to find her new weapons. "Were you really going to give her my scythe?" Botan asked Yusuke. "It's not really important. She didn't choose it anyway." A loud thump and a few minutes later, Botan came back with two beautiful knives, as well as two very versatile straps, so they can be hidden pretty much anywhere. Each blade was made of pure steel, sharpened to perfection. The handles were made of ebony wrapped carefully in black leather. Carefully testing the edge, Naomi found that they were in fact double edged daggers. By far the finest feature of the daggers was the triquetra symbol on the blade, just beneath the hilt.
"Now, don't go using these during your lessons. They are very dangerous and only to be used in genuine battle," Botan cautioned her as she gingerly sheathed the knives. She handed Naomi a set of iron practice knives for her lessons. "Who'll be teaching me?" She asked Yusuke. "Hiei." She groaned, and everybody (Except of course, Hiei) laughed.
Naomi spent the next three miserable weeks waking up before dawn and going to bed well after midnight, exhausted from her intense training sessions with Hiei. Finally, on the first day of the fourth week, when she set out before dawn to practice with her knives, Hiei stopped her in the kitchen. She took one look at his face and went straight back to bed: lessons were over. About four hours later, she woke up for real and went downstairs to eat breakfast. Everyone was overjoyed to see her, as they haven't caught even a glimpse of you over the past weeks. She smiled at them and ate her cereal, knowing the real challenge had only just begun. It was time to start training.
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Ooh, exciting. Anyway, just to clarify, Naomi has a bit of a crush on Kurama that has been slowly developing since she met him. Thought I'd tell you, seeing as I don't plan on really adding anything to this story.