Me: Hello! It is I, ressurected! Yayness! It's uber cool to be back!
Yusuke: Yay?
Me: Of course yay you baka!
Kurama: Don't kill him, we need him for your story, remember?
Me: (thinks) Oh, yes, quite right.
Kuwabara: Did anyone review you?
ME: Of course Kuwabara! My loyal fan did! Daisy, you may have the honor!
Daisy: Naoko Asakura 009! Right?
Me: I think so.... Sorry if we spelt it wrong Naoko!
Hiei: Why does she get to say it???
Me: It was her birthday on Sunday! This story is dedicated to her!
Daisy: We're having a party! Yay! (brings out decorations etc)
Me: Yayness! And guess whats uber cool!
Hiei: No....
Me: Yes! You are all 'invited'.
Yusuke: (Looks up) What's with the qoutes?
Me: It just means that you have no choice in the matter.
Kuwabara: oO
Kurama: Sounds like fun!
Hiei: Like Hell it will be!
Yusuke: You got your ears peirced? (Pokes Daisy's ears)
Daisy: (doggy ears twitch and tail wags) Yep! Four times on each ear!
Yusuke: That is so cool! I'm down for the party.
Me: Come on Hiei! It'll be a lot of fun!!!
Hiei: No.
Me: There'll be cake and sweet snow and-
Hiei: Fine I'm going.
Me: (ish happy) Now, go buy presents!
Gang: Why?
Me: (nervous laugh) Well... (pulls out wallet and watches as a moth and a few dozen dust bunnies pour out of it)
All: O.O
Daisy: Sakura, no worries mate! We can always say that this was your present!
Me: (sigh of releif) Thank goodness! Now, you guys go buy presents! No decapititated heads and no more fish.
Daisy: My fish had kiddy fish and then the kiddy fish had kiddy fish and so on.
Me: The spawn if Daisy! (gets hit by Daisy) On to the disclamer!
Disclamer: I do not own YYH. The story of my life, right? I do own Achiko and all other characters in the story- most likely. Daisy is my friend! She lives, like, next door... lol. Cheezits I do not own, I don't manage or whatever any of the bands and didn't write any of the songs you know. I did write the poem Achiko sings and the one in the beginning of the story... like the first few chapters. Damn that's long...
Daisy: Stay tuned for the partay!! Woot!
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Yusuke slowly opened the mahogany doors, drawing in suspense. Achiko looked like she was going to kill him if he took any longer, so he shoved the doors open the rest of the way. Then Hiei pushed his way through and Yusuke left the room.
'I wonder why Hiei is here?' thought Achiko, thinking normally. (as in 'I')
"Achiko, it seems you have arrived!" said a voice behind the desk, sitting in a chair was....
"A child? Kurama, what the hell was that stuff you gave this one!?" Achiko shouted, her hand on her head and the other entangling itself in her hair. (This is just shouting at a wall, she's not really shouting at Kurama-lol) She rubbed her eyes, "This one is not seeing this, she is NOT!" Achiko stopped and opened her eyes again; the child ruler had gotten up from his chair and was standing in front of Achiko.
"Just, by any chance," she began with a very nervous laugh, "did you shrink? Or something?"
Chuckles sounded from outside the door. The child ruler glared at Achiko and then looked as Hiei opened the door- letting Kuwabara and Yusuke fall in and Kurama standing innocently behind them.
"I was going to call you in anyways," muttered the child.
"EEP! It speaks!!" said Achiko, taking a tiny step back.
"I'm not an it! I'm Lord Koenma!!!" shouted the toddler.
"Eep!!" Achiko squealed.
"Achiko, calm down, he's usually this small." Explained Kurama.
"I swear I've gone insane...but oh well! On with it then- whaddya want?" asked Achiko.
"Well, I just wanted to talk with you for my file on you. I'll have to add unbelievably rude" Koenma huffed and walked back to his chair, scrambling to get back up.
"Now, Achiko- is that your real name?" was the toddlers first question.
Achiko's face turned serious and her eyes became emotionless, darker, "No, this one has no name. Everyone was dead before she could be named. Everyone."
"Couldn't another tribe or whatever name you?" asked Kurama.
Achiko shook her head, "Not tribes, families. Everyone who lived in the family had the power to name this one, and they all died. It would be a curse to accept a name from a different family."
"Then how did you get Achiko?" questioned Koenma.
The wolf girl shifted from one foot to another until, "It isn't this one's true name, but it fits. So this one kept it. Until this one meets someone from her family. This one guesses that she's going to be Achiko for a while though," she laughed darkly.
Koenma nodded, "Any powers I should know about?"
Achiko looked sad as she spoke, "The power of the Shirui."
"Shirui?"
"Yea, it's the star of the wolves. It only appears when an older wolf dies. When that time comes, the pack leader can use the power of the star for until he becomes old. It's... complicated for non-wolves to understand. When a wolf is born into this world, it is born with knowledge of the Shirui." Said Achiko, explaining the best she could.
"And...you have that power?" asked Koenma.
"Yes," Achiko had looked down, shifting around uncomfortably.
"How did you get it?" he asked, intrigued.
"If I knew I would have told you by now," Achiko retorted coolly.
Koenma looked shocked, but so did Achiko. She didn't apologize though.
'Curious,' thought Koenma, but he began proceeded with the questions.
Achiko didn't like questions- when her father came come after the hunt he would ask her so many questions... and while he was gone...
"I-I don't like answering questions," she told the toddler, a frantic note in her voice, "May I be dismissed?"
"Of course, perhaps another day." Sighed the child, "But may I ask why you don't like questions?"
Achiko's form stiffened, and she continued facing the wall.
Then, so softly that you could hardly hear it –Kuwabara didn't- she replied to the child ruler.
"She would ask me all sorts of questions.... while she beat me..." Achiko's head dropped, and she stared at the floor, concentrating on it.
Koenma sighed again, habit he supposed by now, "You may go."
Achiko walked delicately from the room, almost tripping on air on the way out. She hadn't been able to say to them who 'she' was. She. A devil in the armor of a beautiful woman. She sighed as she found her way back to her room.
"She said 'me' right?" asked Kurama, who was now in the TV like room, finishing off some rocky road sweet snow. He was only eating it because Achiko hated that flavor. Funny. Everyone had taken such a liking to the wolf girls' personality, her voice- even the way she talked was unique!
"You're right, I heard it too." Confirmed Yusuke.
"You hearing something isn't nearly as confirming. But I heard it too, maybe she had been alone in the woods for such a long time that she forgot how to talk- and we've just been good examples." Spoke Hiei, a flicker of a grin on his face.
"Wow Hiei! More than three words! We're so proud!" Yusuke beamed.
Hiei looked like he was ready to explode, "Usuwari, bakka!" he shouted at the detective.
Yusuke laughed and continued to tease the short demon, who retorted harshly.
Achiko, with her great hearing, heard most of this from her room, it being down the hall. She sighed, "Lucky..." she muttered and then rolled her face into her pillow.
A while later a knock sounded at Achiko's door.
"H-Hello?" stuttered the wolf girl, startled into a sleepy awareness.
"Hey, can I come in?" said the voice outside her door, Kurama's she thought.
And it was.
"Sure," replied Achiko, even though Kurama was already there.
"Anything you want to talk about?" he asked, sitting down next to Achiko.
She sniffled, no one had ever seen her cry before, not even her mother. She wouldn't give anyone the satisfaction.
"This one is...fine..." she said, back to her old self. She leaned backwards on her bed, the mattress fluffy and feathery.
"That's not what I sensed," chuckled Kurama.
"Oh? What is it you sensed then, fox?" questioned the wolf girl.
He laughed, then got more serious, "Fear, agitation, anger- lots of it, and so on."
"Ah ha. Is it weird?" she said, then popped a question.
"Is what weird?" he asked, looking slightly confused.
"The way....I...talk?" she said, but the way she spoke made Kurama look very curiously at her.
"What's wrong with the way you talk? You don't have to change because of us!"
"Hm? No, I'm not changing because of you guys specifically; I just... need a change..." she laughed. "Whenever something goes wrong, one changes their fate. Everything you do- every little thing I say means that I'm changing someone's life- isn't that interesting?" She coughed and then sat up, laughing, "I'm rambling now, sorry."
"Just be yourself, you'll do fine!" smiled Kurama and be fore he left, he spoke again, "If you ever want to talk, you can always come to me!"
Achiko smiled in response and then fell off her bed happily.
"This... I will remember Kurama!" she said and sat there on the floor.
Kurama shut the door tightly behind him, and heard Achiko sigh lightly. He knew then and there that she would never tell him anything; whether it was she didn't trust him or not- he didn't know. Achiko would never open up to people. She was a wolf; she hid her feelings of pain well. Achiko in her room, alone, like she had always been.
"Do you think it's because of me?!"
Achiko opened her eyes wide with fear, for her mothers voice was drenched in hatred.
"Why does he hate me?! Why not you?!"
There it was again. Achiko put her head into her knees, wrapping her arms around her legs as tight as she could. Shivering, and her eyes tightly closed, the voices continued.
"Honey, where did all these bruises come from?"
Father? What? Achiko was becoming confused; the voices in her head were suddenly coming to life- driving her insane! This had happened only once before... after everyone died.
Flames tore at everything. Eating through trees like scarlet tongues. A thirst for life caused it to grow bigger, until it had eaten everything in sight. The humans took her kind and held them in cages. Her kin were taken away from her and tortured in front of her innocent eyes. Her father, his wolfish fur soaked in blood, her mother, missing an eye and bleeding profusely- which didn't bother her as much. A man with a scar, ordering it all. It took everything she had not to run out and attack everyone- she knew she wasn't strong enough. But something inside her told her to hide, and Achiko did as her intent told. She had always trusted her instinct- no use in disobeying it now. So Achiko hid, watching with fearful eyes everything that happened. The torture and death of her family. Her kin. Her pack.
"Help us! Anyone! Someone!" her mother had shouted.
No help could be reached. No help could be offered. It was a blood moon that night. Achiko put her hands over her ears, now human like in size and shape, and tried not to listen to the cries of her kin. She was a traitor. She knew it. But she couldn't have helped it. In human years, she was hardly four years old.
The door to Achiko's room slammed open, and with slightly teary eyes, a startled Achiko looked up. Her hands were still clenched over her ears, her eyes still widened in fear. There, in all his shortness, stood Hiei.
Achiko blinked, her watery eyes forming into crystal clear tears that seemingly bled down her face.
"What the hell are you thinking about?! It's giving me a headache!" he shouted, slamming the door behind him- causing Achiko to flinch in surprise.
"N-Nothing!" stuttered the frightened wolf girl, blinking and trying to wipe away her tears.
"It's not nothing!" said Hiei, trying not to shout, "Or else you would have found a way to keep it in your own head! Not send it to mine! I thought you were in trouble!!"
"Y-you... thought I was in trouble and came to help me?" asked Achiko in shock.
Hiei had seemed the kind of person who would rather kill you then help you. She tilted her head, a sign of confusion. Her eyes were dried somewhat but red where she had vigorously wiped at them.
"Why were you crying?" he asked. It happened again! Why was everything slipping out?! He blinked instead of revealing this thought and put a hand to his pounding head.
Achiko's eyes held a never-ending curiosity towards this strange demon. He was sort of moody; he had just left his tough guy attitude and showed concern...
Achiko smiled with relief, "It's nice to know you care Hiei."
Hiei glared in response, but it wasn't harsh, more of a 'shut up about this' glare.
"Stop thinking about the past so much- when you do it makes my head hurt!" Hiei told the wolf girl and then stormed out of her room, clearly befuddled and agitated.
Achiko watched as he slammed the door behind him, making the poor girl jump.
She sighed; her past was a delicate thing. One moment, happy memories filled her thoughts; her father playing with her, even Maru, her older sister. Then, most of the time were memories of terror. Maru was never beaten. She was the sweet, angelic child. Achiko had loved her older sister, she had loved her mother once, and she had loved her father. Then they died. In a flash of fire, a curtain of flames covering the bloody scene. When night came, an array of colored lights filled the sky. Hope and peace overcame Achiko as she thought of this amazing occurrence. A large light in the sky, its glow wrapping around Achiko.
Achiko snapped out of her daydream, a small trail of blood swimming down the side of her face.
'Oops,' thought Achiko, removing her nail from her skin.
Blood welled up from her skin and she continued to bleed. Achiko stood up and walked over to her bathroom, which had a nice looking tub, a sink, lots of towels, etc. The walls were a pale shade of yellow, pictures of the sea on the walls. Achiko sullenly washed her hands and dabbed at the cut on her face. After it stopped bleeding, Achiko found a curious object on the sink, as her new friends called it. Oh, right, Botan called it a brush. Achiko tentatively poked at the plastic, twig-like things growing from the base of the brush. She picked it up and started to comb through the tangles in her silky hair. Humming, then singing to her lonesome expression in the mirror above the sink.
"Tragically blinded, hiding from light. Heart undecided, dwelling in night. Broken wings, frightened screams. I pick up my scattered dreams." Achiko sang and combed at her hair, her lonely expression changing to that of a star, warm and glowing. She took two elastics from a large bowl from Botan and put her hair into two buns. Her hair now out of her face, Achiko walked out of her bathroom and back into her room. Achiko's room.
"My room." She said.
She liked the sound of that, her own room. It really was a nice thing to do, letting her house with them in Spirit World. A whole new world that she never knew existed. People who treated her nicely, something she wasn't used to and didn't know how to handle except to be nice back. It was just that, they didn't know any of her secrets. She had told them one of many, the fact that her beloved mother beat her as a child. Achiko shifted the weight on her feet as she looked in the small mirror hanging above the chest of clothes. The chest contained little, considering her status of a, in human years, fourteen year old who had lived in the woods her entire life, receiving two pairs of clothes and bathing them and herself one she wore them. Luckily, Botan had many clothes that didn't fit her, but they still hung loosely around Achiko's frail waist. Achiko changed out of her plaid pajama bottoms and white t-shirt, putting on a pair of jeans and a green t-shirt. She was just pulling the shirt down as a knock sounded at her door. She righted herself and told whoever it was to come in.
"It's just me," said Yusuke, peeking in and looking for Achiko in her dark room.
"Hello, Yusuke, what brings you to these parts?" asked Achiko, smiling slyly.
"Just lunch, what do you want?" he grinned back at her.
Achiko's wolf ears perked at this and her smile turned to a grin.
"This one hasn't tried much human food yet! I can't wait!" she pumped her fists into the air.
Yusuke was terribly confused; once she was talking like a fallen warrior- then she was talking normal. What was up?
"Alright then..." he said tentatively, "How do burgers and fries sound?"
"Grand!" she said and adjusted her shirt a bit more, for it was rolled up at the top of her stomach.
"Uh, I'll have Kurama bake cookies too!" he said, the idea flashed in his head like a light bulb.
"YAY! Now I can truly live!" said Achiko, poking Yusuke's arm.
"Alright, alright! I'm going to tell Kurama to make cookies too." The boy said, walking out the door.
Achiko wanted to go to the TV room, but had a thought.
"Wait! Yusuke! I'm coming too!" she said running out the door and following his scent around the corner.
"What are you doing?" he asked as she wandered dizzily over to him.
She laughed nervously, her eyes slightly swirly, "Too many scents!"
Yusuke smiled in response and dragged her to the kitchen. Upon entering the checker tiled room and a wondrous scent wafted to her nose, clearing away her swirly eyes,
"I'm half starved!" she joked.
The radio was playing as the red haired fox-boy cooked.
"Her two kids in high school, they tell her that she's un-cool- cuz she's still preoccupied with 19 19 1985! Woo hoo hoo!"
"Who's singing?" asked Achiko, quite seriously.
After having Kurama explain the concepts of a radio while getting ingredients for chocolate chip cookies, Achiko flipped through the channels.
"And breakawa-a-a-a-ay!!! I'll spread my wings and-"
"I've become so numb- I can't feel-"
"Get out! Right now! It's the end of you and me, its too late- and I can't wait-"
"There are a lot of songs! Everyone has such nice voices!" commented Achiko.
"You have a nice voice too!" smiled Kurama, peeking out from under a giant cookbook.
Achiko smiled and blushed her thanks.
"Um, what's the date today?" she asked suddenly.
"What? Oh, um..." Kurama looked at the calendar on the wall, "September 25th."
"Shit," she murmured. The boys looked at her now grim face.
She repeated the curse. It was getting to be that time of month. She hated it when this happened! Now the boys would think she was some sort of freak.
"How far is heaven?"
Achiko looked up, smiling, and silently praying they would accept her for who and what she was. Her wolf tail began to wag slowly and her ears popped back up on her head, for they were laying flat on her hair while she that of her time of month.
"Wake me up inside. Wake me up inside. Call my name and save me from the dark, bid my blood to run- before I come undone. Save me from the nothing I've become. Now that I know what I'm without, you can't just leave me. Breath into me and make me real- bring me... to life."
Achiko looked at the radio, "I like this song." She stated, smiling.
"It's not my type of music, but it is interesting." Commented Kurama.
"I don't listen to music much, but I do like this band." Said Yusuke.
Kuwabara's head peeked in through the doorway. Achiko heard him but Yusuke, who's back was turned, didn't. Kuwabara slammed his hands down on Yusuke's shoulders, causing the startled Yusuke to scream.
Achiko put her hands to her furry ears to try and block out the shrill scream.
"Kuwabara you dumbass!" she shouted and instantly the screaming stopped.
Achiko took her hands off her ears and grinned. A giggle escaped and it erupted into laughter. Kurama and Kuwabara joined in, but Yusuke just pouted. After a few minutes of eternal bliss, Achiko took a deep breath and sighed.
"I've never laughed like this before! It's refreshing," she said, a dreamy smile crossing her face.
The boys looked curiously at her, and then she popped another question.
"Where's Hiei?" she asked, looking around the room.
"In the tree's or something," replied Kurama, turning back to his cooking with a smile.
"Ah," replied Achiko, still curious but deciding to drop the subject.
When the burgers were done, Achiko tentatively nibbled hers, and then drowned it in ketchup and mustard. Basically, she was just as bad as Yusuke and Kuwabara- who almost literally inhaled their food.
Kurama, sensible as always, spoke up, "You're going to choke- all three of you!"
Achiko laughed and wiped a bit of ketchup off her chin with a napkin. She instantly knew that the boys with her right now didn't understand her. No one did, except perhaps Hiei. But even he hadn't gone through the torture of being thrown against the wall of a cave, having teeth marks and scrapes all over your body. Having light scars all over, some healed, some still healing. Those were only bodily injuries. The only thing that mattered that her mother had scarred was dwelling within her, carrying her feelings of joy.
Her mother had scarred her heart.
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Me: Achiko's coming too!!!!
Achiko: I'm here!
Me: (happy dance) YAYNESS! (Huggles Achiko)
Daisy: Did she bring me anything squishy?
Me: You'll have to open them and seee!
Gang: Here.
Me: YAY!!! (shoves Daisy into chair) Open!
Daisy: (opens presents) Oooo! Squishy!!
The gangs presents: Dog Toys.
Achiko's present: Doggy biscuits.
My present: A story.
Daisy: Soooooo happy! (ish playing with toys)
Yusuke: I wonder... (grabs box of dog biscuits)
Me: oO What're you doing?
Yusuke: (takes out cookie and shakes it over Daisy's head) Sit girl!
Daisy: (sits and stares crazily at cookie)
Yusuke: Roll over!
Daisy: (Rolls over)
Yusuke: Good girl! (Throws cookie in air)
Daisy&Me: (Leap to cathc cookie)
Me: I win! (eats cookie)
Daisy: (pouting)
Me: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAISY/KRYSTEN! THIS WAS DEDICATED TO YOU, MY COOL FOURTEEN YEAR OLD FRIEND!
Everyone: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Me: This is Sakura Seita, signing out! (salutes) Forward ye readers!
Note: I'm trying my hardest to type whenever I can, I wake up at 4:45 am and go to sleep at 10:30 pm. Lol. I love y'all sooo much! Reviews are highly welcome! ; lol. --' I really like it when people review... it makes meh sooooooo happy! ' lol TTFN! School....
Sakura Seita