Suntiger: Yea yea I know. I took my time on updating. Just read the chapter.
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Lousy Birthdays, Now I'm Fifteen
I glanced nervously around. I was in Keiko's bathroom and it was about almost midnight. I hated my birthday. It was the day when I actually become a normal human but when I do bad things tend to happen.
I started to glow white, and for once I didn't panic. I had already gone through this experience. I let out a growl when I felt the spirits inside me split and rise from me. A light red flared at my right, a dark blue blazed on my left, above me was a pitch black cloud and a violet colored fuzzed dance in front of me. I heard a giggle and after I opened my eyes I realized that doing this in the bathroom was not a good idea. It was way too overcrowded.
"Can we get out?" Celosia said. Her red hair had reached her waist and her green eyes shone in the dark. Spirit eyes can do that but right now she was as solid as a rock. She seemed like she was sixteen years old.
"We are out," Shiva answered the pyromaniac. Shiva was still a short naive child but she appeared thirteen years old with the mind of an eight year old. Her wavy blond hair flowed to her shoulders and her lavender eyes blinked curiously around her.
"I meant out of the bathroom. You can barely breathe in here," Celosia remarked and I nodded.
"But we can't let Keiko see us," Solace told us. Solace's long navy blue hair was up in a pony tail and braided. Her yellow eyes flickered and turned normal. The alien looked like she was twenty years old.
"If the human girl spots us then we're going to have problems and I don't feel like explaining to her who we are," Hecate frowned as she pushed the others out of the bathroom. Hecate's silver hair shot up in spikes, and to make her eyes look human it turned white with two black pupils.
"Easy, all I have to say is that we were once stuck in Varia's body and now we're free but for only a week," Celosia grinned. She loved messing with people's heads.
"I still think it's strange that we become alive, solid people when Varia's birthday comes around," Solace muttered.
"Even worse is that I lose my powers," I groaned.
"Well, at least we don't have to tell the fox this. He would understand," Hecate folded her arms once we were done traveling in the dark and were in my room. I nodded.
"We'd just have to give an example. Kurama loses his Youko side and Youko becomes his own person instead of living inside Kurama."
I fell asleep on the bed while the others snuck out of the house and went to find a place to stay. Where, I don't know. I was already out. In the morning I felt Keiko shaking me. I looked at the clock and it read nine A.M. I growled and looked up at her.
"Good morning, sunshine! Mom's got breakfast," She gave me a cheerful smile and I continued to glare at her. I was not a morning person. I got dressed in silence and dragged myself downstairs. I grew accustomed to the Japanese way of breakfast and I turned off the television.
"So what do you have in mind for today, girls?" Mrs. Yukimura questioned. I was about to answer when the word mind came across me. It was silent in my head. Why… OH! That's right! Today's August 2nd! My birthday! Meaning... They were loose somewhere! I groaned.
"Something the matter, Varia?" Keiko's mom asked me in concern.
"No Mom, I just ate too fast," I lied. I had also grown accustomed to lying. A bad habit I know, but hey at least she didn't know anything. Another thing is that I have a habit of calling Mrs. Yukimura, Mom. My parents were still working somewhere.
Koenma had told me in order to delay them from running into one of Cyrus's associates the underworld king had to give my parent's superior's more jobs to keep them busy and prevent them from coming home. I miss them but at least Koenma gave me a phone that allowed me to talk to them and tell them I was still alive. So far.
Regulus, on the other hand, demanded attention from me. He constantly found his way to escape Spirit World and tackle me with licks. A very smart tiger and the poor cat missed me. Koenma eventually brainwashed the cub into thinking that I wasn't the owner and let him back into the wild. I'm gonna miss my tiger. School was on a summer break and I was to return at the end of August. The Japanese school year is different too.
I stretched and a few joints cracked back into place. I had told Keiko that I was going to the Library and wanted some time alone. Being around her and her friends was fun but sometimes you just want to be alone, and today was one of those days were I wanted to be lazy. I felt a tap on my shoulder and without even looking I knew who it was.
"How did you sleep, Celosia?" I asked the pyromaniac. She grinned at me.
"Fine actually. Trees can be comfortable if you find the right one."
"You slept in a tree?" Shiva came by and stood next to us.
"Well, where did you guys sleep?" Celosia asked once the alien and robot joined us. Hecate rubbed the back of her head and yawned.
"Actually we slept in a bus."
"Seats are nice," Shiva smiled.
"In a bus?" I asked them. Surely, the alien could have done better. She nodded and I shrugged. Guess not. Shiva hiccupped and shape-shifted into a tree. Celosia laughed at the veela child and Shiva growled in response. Now I may have lost my powers but the spirits didn't. I can't necessarily call them spirits though. They were solid, alive, and looked normal. Hecate gave the child a water bottle.
"So what do we plan on doing?" Celosia grinned.
"I hope you're not in a mischievous mood," Solace frowned. "The last time you got out of Varia you blew up the back room of a school."
"That would have been the Gym she blew up," I said. Celosia laughed and we all glared at her in warning.
"What can I say? I'm prone to explosions."
"You could be more careful," Hecate folded her arms.
"But you'd take out all the fun," Celosia pouted and we all sighed.
"I see so these are the spirits that roam your mind," A voice said behind us and if I wasn't with my gang of idiots then I probably would have jumped. Kurama appeared into vision and I glanced around to observe how the others would react.
"EEP!" Shiva squealed and flew off behind Hecate, using her as a robot shield. Hecate frowned and growled. Her aura tensed just incase the fox demon wanted to battle.
"Put your guard down, Hecate, he's not our enemy," Solace reminded them. This is why it's good to have a Queen around. Especially an alien, although, in most movies aliens were hostile. Solace would give the scientist a wild ride.
"But why would they be out of your mind?" Kurama turned his attention to me. Did I ever tell you that I hate being in the spot light? I sighed.
"Today's my birthday, and on this day I always lose my powers, and they are set free. For a week," I explained.
"A week?" He repeated me. I nodded. Celosia smirked and slowly walked around the fox. Inspecting him and of his charms no doubt.
"Do you like what you see?" He smiled and Celosia rolled her eyes.
"Puh-lease," Celosia folded her arms over her chest. Kurama tilted his head towards the veela and smiled again.
"So you're the one that stole Hiei's heart."
"Huh?" Shiva's face expressed confusion. "We were close friends."
"Very close friends," Celosia added.
"They don't need your interruptions, Celosia," Hecate mumbled.
"Hey, it's not like they ever told me to shut up," The fire addicted grinned.
"Celosia.. shut up," I ordered and Solace chuckled as Celosia narrowed her eyes at me.
"Hey, you lost your powers. Do you really want to mess with me?"
"Celosia, I wouldn't if I were you," Hecate's hands twitched.
"Stop being a bully," Shiva frowned and Celosia rolled her eyes.
Kurama watched us and gave out a small laugh. We all turned to face him. He pointed behind me and I looked. Hiei stood very close to me. Too close to me. I shrieked and backed away. Hiei's eyes darted from one person to another but they landed on Shiva. I could have sworn he was about to have a heart attack.
"Okay, one of the first rules of living, Hiei, is to breathe," I told him because I was probably the only one close enough to realize that he was actually holding his breath. He exhaled and glared at me. Though, I still noticed the faint pink on his face.
"Hiei-kun!" Shiva grinned and latched herself around his waist, which totally caught him off guard and made him fall on his rear.
"And here I thought you would have been able to balance yourself," Celosia teased him. Probably because he was a fire demon.
He growled at her but Shiva kept him from attacking. In fact, she was basically snuggling him at the moment. Well, I'm glad she didn't possess me to do that.
"Aww, you two are so cute," Solace grinned and made one of those mommy faces at them. You know the kind of face that just says 'That is so adorable!' I had a feeling that in his mind, Hiei was debating on whether to shove her off of him or just to lie completely still.
"Geez, girl give him some room to respire," Celosia laughed. I was going to say the same thing but I bit my tongue. For some reason I felt this pang of fire in my chest. Something that sort of felt like hatred.
Kurama had to drag me home because I didn't want to go back. I didn't want to tell Keiko about myself or the others. Hiei was walking slowly behind us. More like behind Shiva and watching her every single move. I chuckled. Maybe he was more mistrustful than I thought.
"Where would we be staying?" Shiva suddenly asked. She knew that Keiko didn't have room for all of them.
"I could ask Genkai after I explain everything," Kurama suggested. Great, now everyone was going to know. Soon the whole world will be laughing at me and know that they were right. I am a freak.
"That's a good idea," Solace nodded. Sometimes, I argue with myself over who smiles more often. Solace or Shiva but then again, when you continue to think about it, they are in a lot of ways alike. Both were extremely gentle, optimistic, and polite. Solace was like an older version of Shiva.
Maybe they were related in a way that they didn't know. On our way to Keiko we ran into Kuwabara and Shizuru. They were seemingly grocery shopping. Kuwabara was carrying everything of course.
"Woah, where did you guys pop out from?" Kuwabara asked and Celosia grinned. I prepared for the worst.
"Funny that you should ask that. We all came from her," Celosia pointed to me while I tried to stay hidden behind Hecate. She's pretty tall you know.
"We'll enlighten you later, human," Hiei said and I frowned. I really hate it when he refers people as humans. Especially me.
"Be nice, Hiei-kun, Kuwabara's a good man," Shiva pouted at the fire demon. Solace bit her lip to keep herself from laughing. A child was controlling Hiei.
"Hn."
Celosia tilted her head for a moment and grinned. She looked my way and winked. I was nervous as it is but now I was just plain out paranoid.
"Hey, I'm taking Varia to the graveyard," Celosia spoke suddenly and I blinked a few times. Why the hell did she want to go to a graveyard? Kurama turned to face the pyromaniac and raised an eyebrow.
"Why?"
"I have my reasons," Celosia replied. Shiva must have gotten the hint.
"I wanna go too," Shiva said. Great, we'll have a parade on the way. Hecate and Solace exchanged glances and smiled at me. They nodded.
"Why does everyone want to go the graveyard suddenly?" Shizuru's eyes studied us. Kurama was doing the same thing. Kuwabara looked confused and Hiei didn't care.
"It's a tradition we do when we're out of Varia's body. Give us a break," Celosia snapped. She didn't like it when people put their noses into her business. Can't blame her.
"Yea, so don't follow us otherwise we'll attack you," Hecate begun to lead us to the graveyard.
"Fine, but I'm still gonna have to explicate Genkai," Kurama replied. They had wanted to visit the necropolis for some reason. I don't know why. Celosia trailed over to the place to where she was buried and smirked.
"They don't even care," She looked at me. I don't think she gave a damn about what other people thought of her or how they treated her even when she was dead. I was kinda glad though because this way she wouldn't be so depressing.
"Besides, one day they'll meet their fate too. Which is why I don't care," She grinned. Shiva made her way to a new coffin that had yet to be buried. My guess is that it was getting buried today.
"Why is this person in a box?" The child asked me. Hecate inspected the dead person.
"It seems like he was injured. There's a gun wound in his chest," Hecate answered.
"It's a shame. I sense a pure soul in him too," Solace sighed. I scanned the male's dead body. He had black hair, which was chin length long, and strong features but I won't go the whole nine yards of describing him. I would tell you what his eyes were but they were closed.
Permanently.
"Injured? Well I could just heal him," Shiva said and she raised her hands to his chest. Before we could do anything to stop her the healing process begun. I groaned as the boy raised from the dead. Literally.
"Great! Look what you did!" Celosia snapped. Shiva gave us a confused look.
"He was dead, Shiva," Hecate told her and Solace chuckled as the child paled. There were people behind us that just arrived and got out of their cars. Several of them fainted.
Hecate grabbed Shiva and ordered us to move before anyone questioned us of what happened. I tried to keep myself from laughing but it wasn't working. Tears streamed down my face while Celosia kept her annoyed appearance.
"You were so not supposed to do that," Celosia mumbled.
"Well, at least the news will have something to talk about," Solace smiled.
"They're going to do some tests on him to see what happened," Hecate frowned and she ruffled her silver hair.
"But it's not like they're ever going to find out. They're just going to say 'It was a miracle!'" I grinned. I have to hand it to my kind. We are dumb.
"Would you like to tell me why you wanted to visit the cemetery?" I asked.
"For many reasons actually. One, I know you wanted to get away. Two, I wanted to get away. Three, I wanted to see my burial ground," Celosia answered and then sat on a bench.
"I don't wanna go home yet," Shiva said.
"Neither do I," I didn't want to face the music.
A cat scurried past Shiva by and she gave out a squeal. I groaned because I knew she loved cats. Precisely why I didn't let her play with the tiger. She went off chasing the cat around the block and we followed her. It got to the point where the cat went under a car and Shiva trailed after it, but unlike the cat Shiva got stuck under the car.
"Shiva! YOU IDIOT! LOOK WHAT YOU DID NOW!" Celosia yelled.
"I'm sorry! I'm really sorry! But I'm stuck. Help me out!" Shiva hollered back. I mean what kid goes under a car just to get a cat? And gets stuck under the car.
"Now, Shiva, don't panic. We'll get you out. Somehow…" Solace muttered.
Hecate rolled her eyes. She wasn't a very patient person so she lift up the car using her robotic strength and threw the car aside. Of course, the alarm inside went off. Just my luck. Shiva got up from her position and dusted herself off.
"HEY! WHAT'S GOING ON DOWN THERE! YOU KIDS BETTER NOT BE TOUCHING MY CAR!" That was obviously the owner of the car that was yelling through the window. Then he saw his car on its side.
"YOU ARE SO BUSTED! DON'T YOU MOVE! I'M COMING DOWN!"
Like whoever listens to a yelling adult? Especially when they're in trouble. We took off running and headed home.
"I think we had enough excitement," Solace mumbled.
"No, actually we have more to go," Celosia groaned.
"We still have to have inform Keiko," Hecate frowned and I sighed.
"You guys just go with Kurama when you see him. I'll tell Keiko," I said and they nodded. We knocked on our home's door.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXSuntiger: Yea, They don't live in her head anymore. They have solid, human looking bodies. By the way, that happened to me before. I chased after a cat and got stuck under a car when I was two years old. Thanks to:
Raven: I want a plushie! I am the owner of them and yet I don't have a plushie of any of my characters. Drat.
Lady Liliana: Glad you thought so XD
Kitten: I am not mean or cruel. Just mischievous. You'll see what happens next later on.
Peeka-chan: I went to your fiction press document thingy and I reviewed a poem. I need Varia back if you don't mind. XD
Schizo aka Steph: I know how Varia feels. I lost my virgin eyes to my father after I accidentally walked in on him while he was taking a shower when I was six years old.
Wolf-Black-flame: What did I do to earn the title of an idiot? Of course I'm random! I love being random! So when are you updating? What parent doesn't think that their child needs therapy? You so took my quote!
Hieisfiredemoness: Truth be told I barely remember anything. Sometimes I forget my name. I know I am pitiful. I will come to see you. Just give your room number and I might just bust you out. XD say hello to the dead doctors.
Eternal Midnight: Well, you're late. WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG TO UPDATE! So yea, you're half way right. He does have a plan to put them together but he didn't go off to do that. I'll let you find out in either the next chapter or later.
Suntiger: All right, someone wanted previews so I'll give you previews.
Preview:
… What can you do when you have your enemy plotting something against you and you know nothing about it? …Absolutely zip…
… And when a certain fire demon just suddenly decides to pop back into your life and won't leave you alone, how do you get rid of him?
…. Keiko was probably just trying to help out but.. Taking my spirits out in public isn't very …safe
..Then Harva goes to visit Yusuke.. just great….