Skie: Wahoo! Second chapter is up! Yesh!

Jade: We're workin hard on this story y'all, so bear with us.

Hiei: I'm just gonna keep my mouth shut...

Skie: You better, you don't wanna get horribly hurt.

Jade: Lets start the story already!

Skie: FINE!

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Chapter 2: Falling from Trees and Gothic Garden Gnomes!

"We're definatly not in Kansas anymore!" Skie said. (Actually, they never were in Kansas, more like Colorado, but you get the point) They walked out of the cave, astonished.

"It will be so hard to find that squirrell now," Jade said.

"Well, if it was a cave-dwelling squirrell, it wouldn't be in a forest now would it?" Skie teased.

WHAMM!

OH MY GOD GIRL WHAT THE HECK!" Skie screamed, holding her head.

"Don't mock the short people." Jade said.

"Oh forget it," Skie muttered, "Lets just look for the darn thing!"

Jade led the way into the quiet forest. Before the trees completetly comsumed them, Skie looked back up at the mountain. Even IT was completely different. This was getting too wierd. With a large sigh, she walked on.

Hiei, Kurama, Yusuke and Kuwabara were trainung in the back on Genkai's dojo. Hiei and Kurama were facing off, which left Yusuke and Kuwabara to fight each other. Genkai was calmly watching form her back porch in the shade, drinking a mug of green tea.

"Break!" She called after three hours.

Kuwabara collapsed on the field, unconsious from exhaustion. Yusuke was barely winded and went and sat on the grass in front of the porch. Hiei and Kurama came and sat by Yusuke. The only way you could tell they had been fighting was from the small rips in their clothing. They sat in a semi-circle in from of Genakai, enjoying a peaceful silence.

That was, until, a female scream erupted through the forest behind them, the tall mountain beyond that grabbing their attention.

"Hey, you guys feel that?" Yusuke asked the two, smirking a bit.

Kurama nodded. "Yes, demon energy, not a lot, but great potential power."

"Why don't we just kill it and get it overwith?" Hiei said. He stood up and swung his cloak to nestle on his shoulders.

So off the boys went into the forest to eradicate another demon that has escaped from the Makai into the Nigenkai. That was, until, they found out what, or rather, who, the demon energy was coming from. Halfway into the forest they heard two girls arguing.

"I told you! A cave-dwelling squirrel would not be in a FOREST!" one said.

"Well then maybe one of those birds are are attracted to shiny objects took it!" another said. She sounded frustrated.

"A crow?"

"Yeah! A crow!"

"Let me get this straight. A crow, flew all the way into that cave through the dark to grab my cell phone?"

"Yeah, or the penguins stole it." She actually sounded serious.

The boys exchanged glances. Penguins? And since when did demons have a cell phone! This was wierd. And, mind you, the boys were creeping closer and closer to them through the forest and they didn't know it.

"Do we know where we are?" the second voice asked.

"Oooh! Oooh! I'll take locations for 500!" the first said, imitating Jeopardy!.

"Yes! The girl who has a mental disorder!"

"Where is surrounded by trees in a forest by a mountain?"

CRACK!

A short girl with burgundy hair and just cracked a taller black-haired girl over the head with a baseball bat.

"HOLY CRAP HOE! WILL YOU STOP THAT?" Her voice matched the first girl's voice.

"That gets us no juice slutbag!" This ones voice matched the second girl's voice. "We have to be cereal about this."

The black-haired girl sat on the ground. "But I hate being cereal!"

The burgundy-haired one waved the broken bat around like she was gonna take another swing and the other girl scooted back real fast bustin a gut laughing.

"Oooh! Idea!" she cried, shooting up.

"Oooh! Tell all!" her friend said, dropping the bat.

"How 'bout i climb up in this tree and try to find out where we are?"

"Oooh! Me likey."

"Shall I?"

"You shall!"

The taller girl jumped into the tree nearest to her and started climbing like a regular human would. The boys exchanged glances. Something wierd was going on. They acted like human girls, not demons. Maybe Genkai would know what to do.

All of a sudden, Hiei dissapeared. Kurama saw him perched on a branch about halfway up the tree the girl was climbing. He watched her climb with a mild distance, not really caring. She was comfortable in a tree, climbing with fluid grace and skill. She reached the branch below his, got on it and he crounched down, staring at her. The girl reached up for her next handhold, her hand gripping the branch right between Hiei's perfectly balanced feet. Her gaze came up a heartbeat later. She gasped at the sight of Hiei and fell backwards. She fell out of the tree, not hitting any branch on the way down. Hiei jumped out of the tree, landing gracefully on his feet beside the other boys.

The girl on the ground looked up just in time to get smashed by her friend.

CRASH!

Yusuke and Kurama flinched at the impact. A large cloud of dust rose up, along with impact stars. They waited for the dust to settle and saw the two girls lying on the forest floor in a tangle of limbs.

The shorter one recovered first. "You clumsy whore! Whadya have to go and do that for?"

The black haired girl rubbed her hea.d "You tell me what a garden gnome was doing in the trees."

Hiei growled. A garden gnome? Who did these demons think they were? His hand flew to his sword hilt and tightened angrily.

Kurama put his arm in front of Hiei, stopping him. "Wait just a moment. Let's find out who they are."

The shorter girl on the bottom looked up and her eyes went wide. "Uh, Skie?"

Skie looked down, "Yeah Jade?"

"Company!"

Skie looked up and scrambled off Jade, watching the boys warily, like prey regarding potential predators. She helped Jade up, still keeping her eyes on the boys. She looked at Hiei and gasped. She roughly shook Jade shoulder, pointing at Hiei.

"Jade! Jade look! It's the garden gnome!" she said.

Jade followed Skie's gaze and saw a boy not much taller than she was. "Hey! You never call me a garden gnome!" She crossed her arms.

Skie smiled and patted the shorter girl on the head. "That's 'cause you're my freakified circus midget!"

Kurama cleared his throat and stared at each girl. They stared back, unfazed and unintimidated. Skie's hair was long, blue black and kept in a low ponytail. She had a long, jagged scar going straight down her left eye, and a smaller scar along her jaw. There was a sapphire encrusted choker circling her neck and large silver hoops hung from her ears. She wore a long-sleeve black shirt with a sleeveless camo hoodie. Some camo green gloves were on her hands. They fitted tight around the hand and were loose and baggy on the arm parts. She had on real baggy black pants with zillions of pockets that were held up with a studded rocker belt. She had black and red Vans on her feet and thin black eyelinder around her sapphire blue eyes. Jade on the other hand was about a half a foot shorter than Skie. (so Jade is three inches shorter than Hiei, amd Skie is three inches taller than him.) Jade's burgundy hair was wavy and curly and kept in a messy bun. Silver hoops also dangled from her ears and an amythyst encrusted choker was around her neck. She wore a fitted black tee with the words, "Im only wearing black until they come up with something darker.." on it in red. She wore baggy blue jeans, a studded rocker belt and black and red Vans. An assortment of wristbands, bracelets and bangles on both wrists completed her outfit.

"You are y'all?" Skie asked.

"The real question here is who are YOU GUYS." Yusuke said.

Skie gave him a "you're kidding" look. "Okay, wait a minute. First of all, we are not GUYS, we're GIRLS. Second of all, I asked YOU first."

"We need to take them to Genkai." Kurama reminded Yusuke.

"You girls need to come with us," Yusuke told them, taking a step forwards.

Jade took a step closer to Skie and grabbed her gloved hand. Skie squeezed it reasurringly. "Sorry boys, no can do."

Yusuke took another stpe forward, his eyebrows narrowed a bit. "This is private property. We need you to come with us sothe ownercan get you home."

Jade took another step closer to Skie, who glared at Yusuke. "I said no."

Kurama took over. "Please, will you accompany us to to meet the owner of the property? She is very nice and will gladly assist you in getting home."

Skie shook her head, but Jade stepped forward. "I think we can trust him." she whispered.

Skie was a bit hesitant, but she let Jade lead the way. "Alright, I guess we're goin."

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Jade: You sure do talk a lot Skie.

Hiei: Why do i put up with this?

Skie: Cuz you secretly are deeply in love with us both, my little garden gnome.

Hiei: eyes get flames QUIT CALLING ME THAT! draws sword

Jade: RUN SKIE RUN!