Silverwing013: Yes, yes. Not mine. Story is. As are the characters. Lets move on.
Hiei returned back up on the tree branch, watching the others. Humans. He rolled his eyes around at the very thought but continued starring at Mikko. What was it about her?
Mikko sat with the others telling herself that she shouldn't be making friends now. The ones chasing her would catch up soon and she would have to fight, get injured, or run away. Then it would be a matter of time before she would be found again. She had long given up the idea of someone knowing who she was and where she could find her parents. They had tried to stick her in an orphanage a couple times when she asked where she could find her parents. Now, can anyone image her staying there with all this running around, she has mentioned?
She sighed and watched the others playing cards, their own slice of the birthday cake laid off to the side for the moment. Kurama, the person closest to Hiei, the wind blew by. Kurama, (the feminine yet masculine looking guy Mikko thought at his looks) as they called him, was pretty good at his game of poker. Almost too good, she thought. Maybe she should teach them one of the card games she had made up so she could play against someone other than the wind. How is it that she has this with the wind? What is it? Did she get it from one of her parents or something? She thought she probably would never find out.
"Not again! How do you keep winning Kurama?" Kuwabara said throwing down his cards in defeat. The rest of them followed suit.
"Does anyone know any other card game we can play?" Botan asked the others. They shook their heads. "What about you Mikko?"
Mikko was startled that anyone would ask, like they had been friends for years, but she shrugged. "A few. Mostly I invented them."
"Tell us one then. We don't know any others." Botan said to me.
She thought a while on wether she should be making friends like this and then started explaining Blind Luck while the wind told her Hiei's watching you from the tree.
Kuwabara was ecstatic about Blind Luck. "This is like beating Urameshi at Janken." He started laughing loudly. "I am the Champion! Yukina, if you need any help I'llOww!" He rubbed his head and glared at Yusuke whose own eyes glared at Kuwabara. Yusuke sat back down with Keiko arguing with him and Kuwabara still glaring at him. Then Kuwabara muttered, "Sore loser."
"AHHHH!" Boom boom bang Bash! Kuwabara was flat on the ground with gigantic bruises all over his face and groaning in pain.
Yukina quickly glanced to see if Kuwabara was okay. "Are you okay Kazuma?"
Kuwabara immediately popped back up and said, "I'm fine!"
The others laughed at his sudden energy. Mikko blinked her eyes at them; trying to understand were his sudden brust of energy came from. Girls probably, she thought, either a gentleman or a bit of a pervert.
King Enma's son is coming to see you. The wind drifted by. Who was King Enma's son? Prince obviously, she thought, but who? And why? Maybe I should get out of here before he comes.
"Why not showing us another one Mikko?" Botan said eager to stop any other arguments between the two for a while.
Hummm…it wouldn't hurt asking her would it? She's treated me like a friend, Mikko thought gladly at the thought of a friend. She guessed it wouldn't hurt. "Who's King Enma's son?"
Everyone starred at me with open mouths. Mikko looked at each of them around her. Finally-
"How do you know Koenma?" Botan yelled, still stunned.
"Is that his name?" Mikko asked as Botan and the others sweat dropped.
"Mortals aren't supposed to know about the Spirit World." She said startled yet about Mikko 'knowing' this.
"Spirit World?" Mikko asked.
"Botan!" Yusuke bonked her in the head. "Oww!"
But Mikko barely heard them……………………………………………..
"You did what?" A large man stood in front of a little girl, barely four or so, with a beautiful woman behind her. The little girl was just as tall as his smallest toe, maybe. A council sat behind the man not really shocked at the news but eyeing the larger man with some wariness. A teen stood next to the large man, looking curiously between the man and the lady standing behind the child protectively.
"I fell in love with him. His wife died when giving birth to his son and I helped him." The lady said, giving out the facts straight toward him.
"Maybe a little too well! Is this the result?" he said pointing to the little girl.
"This," she said angrily, "is my daughter."
"She is not your daughter! You can have offspring with another of your kind up in the Spirit World, Zephyr. But you are not a Mortal!"
The woman, Zephyr, said nothing in reply, just starred up at the large man. "You have one of two choices. One is that the resultZephyr glared at him with that worder…daughter will be killed and you can be allowed to stay up in the Spirit World but without any privileges of going down to the Human World. The other is that you would become Mortal and condemned to live on the Human World with that short lifespan."
Zephyr looked up at the large man and stated clearly, "My daughter will not be killed. I have no regrets."
"Very well." The large man picked up a paper, rather sadly and determinately, and wrote upon it while saying, "Hereby proclaimed by King Enma that Zephyr shall be condemned to the Human World as a Mortal. Sentenced from Code 64 Section 227…." He stamped the paper after finishing up with it and handed it to the boy next to him.
"See that they make it back to the Human World, Koenma. Even though I'd rather the result be killed off." The teen boy next to the large man nodded and sucked once on his pacifier. "Yes, father."
The little girl looked up at Zephyr, "Mommy. Can we go home now? Jin-Jin and I want to go to the beach."
"Yes," Zephyr smiled benignly at her daughter, "can't disappoint the two of you now can I?"
Deciding to be nice to the large man, the little girl turned back around to the King and his son and gave a cute little wave of her hand. "Goodbye mister. I get to go to the beach with Jin-Jin today. Mister?" The King was gone. He had left.
The little girl looked at his son. "Is your Daddy mad at me and my Mommy?"
Koenma looked down at the little girl, leaned down to pat her on the head, and offered a weak smile; then looked up at Zephyr. "Shall we go now?"
Zephyr nodded and followed him out of the room with her daughter's hand in hers.
"Mommy! I just remembered! Jin-Jin gave me a nickname too! He says Michelle is too pla-pla-uh plain and doesn't de-cribe me."
"That's nice of your brother Michelle. But don't you like the name I gave you?" Her mom said, looking distracted.
"I guess…Jin-Jin says my nickname is Mikko! Mikko Songs be'cuse I like music so much."
"That's great Michelle."
A blue head popped out from behind the door. Can't see who it was before Koenma looked at them and shook his head no. Koenma leaned closer to Zephyr and spoke softly, "You know what this means don't you?"
"She gets to live with me."
"No. The other part."
Zephyr looked down. "Yes, I know."
"Well at lest we know why there wasn't another one four years ago, when that young fire demon was born. We lost track of him somehow though. This is the first female one we have had of their kind."
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The memory ended. Wow. I can't remember anything before I was six though, Mikko thought wildly. That was when I was four. My mom wasn't a mortal? Was. Now she's a mortal, wherever she is. Who was my dad? I have a brother? Jin-Jin. But that was a nickname. What was his real name? What did he look like? Mikko Songs is a nickname my brother gave me…but why do I refer myself to others as Mikko instead of Michelle? That's the only thing I could remember before about my past. I just figured it was my real name. And what was Koenma and Zephyr, my mom, worried about? Maybe they were worried if King Enma would change his mind. And who was that behind the curtain? I was a kind of what, exactly? All these questions and more shall go unanswered for quite some time.
"Mikko? Are you alright?" Yusuke said.
She told him, "Fine." As I could be, she added in her head. So, King Enma's son Koenma was coming. Getting back to what she was thinking before…What if Enma changed his mind from that trial and Mikko was to be killed? I better leave, she thought. Mikko thought she couldn't take any more chances.
"I have to get going now," She said standing up to leave.
"But how do you know about King Enma and Koenma?" Botan said anxiously.
"I just remembered something.which wasn't the whole truth, she thoughtI really have to get going now."
Mikko looked at Kurama, 'the person closest to Hiei' as the wind put it, as she left. "Tell Hiei he doesn't have to hide and watch me will you?"
Hiei blinked twice as he heard the comment made by Mikko to Kurama. How did she know? How did she know he was up here watching her? I wasn't watching her, I was watching other things, not her. He told himself this even though he knew it was a downright lie. Why did he feel the danged need to watch this human girl?
Hiei watched Mikko leave the rest of the group and silently followed her. He wondered exactly how she know he was watching again and if she could tell if he was following her. Well I hope she can't, he thought, putting up his cloaking to hide his presence. He hasn't been caught watching Yukina yet and it would be rather embarrassing to be caught looking at her.
Botan remained stunned at Mikko knowing about King Emma and Koenma when Koenma came up from behind her.
"Hey Koenma." Yusuke called.
"Botan."
"Ahh! Oh Koenma. I was just thinking about something." Botan laughed nervously.
"She left, didn't she, Botan?" Koenma asked.
"huh?" How did he know alreadly?
Koenma sighed. "I'll have to look for her again."
"Hey Koenma. Do you mean Mikko?" Kuwabara asked. Then he snickered over the next comment with Yusuke, "Hiei's girl. Never knew the shrimp even knew what a girl was."
"Mikko?" Koenma looked confused for a second. For someone he thought had lost their memory after what happened to them he couldn't see how they would remember a nickname their brother gave them. "I suppose their name could be Mikko."
"What do you mean, you suppose?" Botan asked. Koenma sighed. This wasn't an issue to speak about in front of the others.
"Botan, follow me please." He walked off to the side of the woods with Botan.
"What is it Koenma?"
"'Mikko' lost her memory when she was six. Mikko Songs was a nickname her brother gave her. I don't know how she remembered her nickname, but her real name is Michelle Sato or known as Autumn Breeze. I believe you know whom I'm talking about."
Botan gasped. "That girl is the… the other…other one?" She remembered glancing at Koenma after his father left to ask if she could meet Michelle, but he had shaken her off.
Koenma grimly nodded. "That's right."
And their conversation continued.
"Wonder what they're talking about. It's been a while." Yusuke wondered out loud.
"Puu!"
"Probably Mikko." Kurama thought. "They left when her name was mentioned."
Moments later, "What's pacifier breath looking for her for?" Kuwabara said using Yusuke's usual comment on Koenma's looks.
"I'm so glad to hear that Kuwabara." Kuwabara paled and turned around.
"uh…Hey Koenma! Didn't notice you were back." Kuwabara said.
"Obviously." Koenma said with a sour look. "But I have been standing here for a while."
Kuwabara's face went red and turned to face the others, whom were stifling laughs. "How come you guys didn't tell me?"
"I'll tell you why." Yusuke said grinning at him. "It was worth seeing that look on your face."
"Urameshi!"
"Stop being so mean Yusuke," Keiko said to him like he was a little kid.
"It's just Kuwabara." Yusuke gave a slight wave of his hand to dismiss this comment.
"Anyway," Koenma interrupted. "If any of you see Mikko again send her to come and talk with me. Or Botan," He said on afterthought. "She can be sure that Mikko gets to Spirit World."
"Lucky her." Kuwabara said. "You want to chat and she gets to come up."
"Yes, I suppose you could say that Kuwabara." Koenma said sarcastically before he left.
"So Botan. Is she scheduled to die or something to get a chat up there?" Yusuke asked.
"I can't say." Botan said.
"So you know? Come on, what's he got to talk to her for?" Yusuke pressed.
Botan covered her mouth determinedly. "Yusuke," Kurama said, "she obviously can't say. Even thought we can wonder, it isn't our place to know."
Botan uncovered her mouth. "Thank you Kurama."
So, my mother was what of what exactly? Was she a demon or something, Mikko wondered. Maybe this wind thing comes from her side. She smiled to herself and had the wind make music around her. She started to sing the vocal part
o/' I felt so alone, so alone
With tears about to fall o/'
but then stopped and frowned to herself.
Maybe she should have stayed there to see Koenma. She could have asked on who her mother was. Jin-Jin. Her father. Why she couldn't remember anything before she was six, counting out the one she just had this afternoon. And that could be a fake memory. Then again, she doubted it. It seemed real enough to her. Maybe it came to her because Koenma was so close to her. Or even because the Spirit World was mentioned. I don't really want anymore disturbing memories that I don't understand. She looked back and then decided she wouldn't go back to see if he was there. It could be that Koenma's father changed his mind and Mikko didn't really want to chance it. She started back up on singing the vocal part of the wind's song.
o/' Stars twinkled softly
High in the dark
They felt so far away
So far away
Until I met you o/'
The word you were held as if a dove to be freed from a cage. With a smile from the effortless note, Mikko ended it, to unlock the cage, closed her eyes and listened for the echo of her voice. It came back, just as beautifully as it came out. She took a breath to start up the chorus but then the wind sent her a message. Mikko let out her breath, opened her eyes open again, smiled slightly, and turned around and stood still from walking to call out….
Hiei flirted in and out of the trees. Mikko had started singing as she was walking, stopped and started up again. God, he had never heard anything like that voice. The notes came out so simple and pure, but there was so much emotion put into the song. Hiei didn't know much about music, but the song was…he couldn't say. There were no words. The words almost fit what he felt everyday. Crazy. He shook his head to shake out the crazy thoughts. Curiously Hiei could almost hear the wind singing along. That's crazy. Or is it? Hiei remembered back to when she said that thing about the wind telling her. Maybe she wasn't as human as she looked if that was true. Hiei glanced back down at her again to see her standing still facing where he was in the tree. It seemed she was smiling at something. Hiei looked around to see what she was smiling at and didn't see anything. Then she called out…
"Hey Hiei!"
He almost fell out of the tree. How did she know! How in the three worlds did she know!
"If you're going my way, why not you come down and join me! No reason not to!"
Hiei glanced around to see if anyone he knew was around and then jumped down about five feet or so away from her. He glanced around again; glad not even Kurama was here. The fools busy hanging around humans anyway, he thought scornfully.
She started walking waiting for him to talk or say something. After about half a block, she gave up on waiting. And he was still staying five feet away from her. What? Am I contagious?
"So, do you want to talk about anything Hiei?" she asked.
"Hn. How in hell did you know I was watching you?" Then he muttered off to the side, "And following you?"
"Following me? Specifically?" Mikko wondered in awe. He liked her? Wow! The first person to like her in a long while. If you didn't count the parents and brother she didn't even remember. Mikko frowned at the thought. Wish I could remember them, she thought ruefully.
"Hn." Hiei crossed his arms and looked the other way deliberately avoiding the question. Oh! He's so cute when he does that, Mikko thought happily inside her head. Then he glanced back at her, noticing her frown and sadness from earlier. "What's bugging you?"
Oh yeah. The people I don't even remember. That's all. Nothing that important. "Hn. Avoiding your problems?"
Hiei inched closer in curiosity. "Avoiding yours?"
Mikko glanced away from him, enforcing Hiei's curiosity to that he scooted about a foot closer to her. Hiei, surprised at being even that daring starred quietly at her instead of speaking. They were now a couple of feet apart from each other as they continued walking down the sidewalk.
"I don't know who I am!" Mikko cried out miserably stopping in the middle of walking.
Hiei stopped as well, standing in front of her. She doesn't know who she is? That's a stupid statement, he though dully and said calmly to her, "Your Mikko Songs."
To Hiei's utter surprise, this statement only caused her to shout out more. "No! I don't know who I am!" Then remembering what Kuanja and Akuna said to her as one of her first memories, "Or even what I am."
"Hn." Maybe the what was demon or something or other, Hiei thought looking at the human girl. Could that be what makes her unusual? He took a long look at her. No, she looks plenty human.
"Why am I even bothering trusting you like this? I'll just have to run from everyone any day now. I never get this close to someone," Mikko starts to walk past Hiei, whom stops her in her path.
She sighed and looked up at Hiei. "I don't want to have to move you Hiei."
"Run away from everyone?" Hiei questioned, then thought, have to move me? Like I can be moved that easily, he thought sarcastically.
"I doubt you actually could move me."
"I can't bother getting close to someone. Something inside of me tells me to stay away. I have no past." Hiei blinked at her. No past? What the heck does that mean? But he knew what she meant by not getting close to someone. It was the reason why he didn't tell Yukina who he was or tried to keep Kurama away….
"Stay away from me, Hiei. It's nothing but trouble. Don't come to see me ever again," she said in a cold, hard voice, demanding to be stern. She backed away from him as a humongous blast of wind pushed at him. It was strong enough to push any mere mortal easily across the street, but only moved Hiei a couple of feet away.
As the wind pushed him away he looked at Mikko's backside running down the street, not once looking back at Hiei. Hiei considered that an insult. Why is she running away from me? For some reason, he didn't like the idea that she was specifically running from him. "Mikko!" He called after her in the hope she would turn around, the hope he didn't even know he had.
He angrily turned away from her running form and kicked at an invisible piece of dirt. What did he care what she did? He didn't, he told himself. I'm getting way too damn sentimental, he thought angrily; first by hanging around the mortal loving Kurama; putting up with Yusuke, dimwit, and company; and now this.
"She can stay away if she wants," Hiei muttered abruptly at her retreating back and then turned away again to angrily stalk off in the opposite direction. "She can do whatever the hell she wants."
Hiei was so distracted that he didn't notice a figure by the tree until he reached it and glared up at the damn figure that watched the whole damn thing.
"You!" He accused the figure. And the figure chuckled down at Hiei. "Hiei, do you like her?"
And Hiei grumbled furiously under his breath, as the figure chuckled some more.
Silverwing013: Part of Mikko's history pops up. Now to all you ppl who thought she was a demon...if you still see it that way, i'm sorry for ur stupidity. Cause i about came right out and said what she is. sigh. some ppl...ah well. Lets see, what was i saying? Oh yeah, Hiei had someone watching him...oh, oh, oh! I know who it is! course i do, don't i? I can be a real ditz if i wanna be.
Corn Maidens. I added them to my fav authors list. This is a colaberation between me and dani. so if anyone wants to look at that crazy side of me...ya can. The only story is If I Were A Lazy Human.
Niana Kuonji- r u suggusting i take the annonymous reviews Niana? Anyway, yes, it is Jin. Happy? I'll hand u a bag of lemon drops, or do u prefer cookies, or another type of junkie? i could give u gum since i gave it up...
Tsume-Hiei luver- of course i'll continue. I've been working on it longer that anyone of you guys could know. I think I started typing parts of it back in september...anyway, yes it is updated.
HieiFan666- i hope u picked up on what Mikko really is in this chappie...if not it gets futher clarification in later chappies. i know it gets more interesting. I had to explain about the whole story the other day just to get someone to understand one part of it. it gets real involved and u have to understand it from the beginning. but it makes perfect sense as it goes along...at least it does to me and dani anyway, u get to read more like u wanted.
Danieru Lee- yes, her stubborn streak...ha. had to stick it in there. bet u can't wait until they have the big arguement in that one part can u? man, those suckers r stubborn for nearly three pages with kurama's gut about to burst from laughter...and i know u luv it. I mean, u hate stalkers and get to pulverize some of them in this...perfect for u. just don't have a major part in the first third of the story...sorry ya know u added in more. cya at school my fellow Corn Maiden.
Silverwing013: I'm posting this chappie before the band trip to denver...so, some reviews i won't see soon and the next chappie won't be up for a while due to me having a fun time up in the mountains sorry, but a girl's gotta have her fun in life. cya all with the next chappie next week i hope i'll try posting on...march 15th. Well around then...could be the 14th, 15th, or 16th. I could get busy with make up work.
