Chapter 2: Stupid Teenagers
A/N: Yay! I'm already gonna put up the official first chapter, because within two hours, I already had a person add it to their alerts. Thank you XzCrimsonTearszX for your alert! And thank you to a couple other people who added it to your favorites!
Disclaimer: See the first chapter.
Begin.
I wasn't sure what to expect on that particular day. It was just another day at my crappy boarding school, right?
So why did I feel this way? Why was I so sure that something was going to happen?
Sure, I'd fantasize about having some awesome, sexy guy take me away in his Porsche (not necessarily in that order), but I surely didn't expect this.
x.x.x.x
Perched in his usual tree near Kurama's house was Hiei. He knew it was best to be close to those 'spirit detectives', so he stayed near the person who annoyed him the least.
"Hiei," Said red head interrupted his nap, "Koenma wants to see us."
Growling, the fire demon leaped down from his tree, yes, his, and walked over to the smiling fox.
"What does that toddler want now?"
"I don't know," Kurama answered bluntly.
Walking into the portal that appeared before them, Hiei hesitated slightly. He had that feeling in his gut again. The feeling that made him know something was going to happen. Shaking it off, he continued.
Once in the large office, the two demons waited for Yusuke and Kuwabara to arrive.
"Hey, binky breath!" Yusuke greeted in his drunk-like way.
Koenma sighed, ushering them all in. "Hello, everyone. I have a new case for you."
Yusuke groaned at this, but Koenma ignored him.
"Just tell us already."
Koenma, suddenly dead serious, replied, "Thirteen year old Aaron Michaels is being targeted by level C demons. We aren't sure why, but I do know that she was born under a demon hunter, who was murdered a while back. I want you to go to her boarding school in Georgia and retrieve her. Nothing is left for her there."
"Wait, we're going to America?" Yusuke yelled, outraged.
Koenma sighed. "Would you rather an innocent thirteen year old girl die?" That shut him up.
"Now, you need to be packed by tomorrow." With that, the tiny lord shooed them away.
Walking down the street that led to the park, the group of four spoke about their new mission.
"It's hard to believe that some demons are low enough to attack a thirteen year old," Yusuke commented, shoving his hands in his pockets.
"Indeed," Kurama agreed.
"Well, I'll save that girl and-."
"-Shut up Kuwabara."
Hiei ignored them, stuffing his hands into the pockets on his cloak. "What do you think, Hiei?"
Turning his piercing red eyes to Kurama, he answered, "Nothing. We'll do our 'job' and be over it."
Rolling his eyes at his reply, Kuwabara teased, "Why, worried she might be taller that you."
"You should shut up, you oaf."
Later, when the group parted, Hiei made his way up his tree.
Pulling his hand out of his pocket, he opened the clenched fist. In his palm sat a large golden locket. He frowned at it, rubbing his thumb over the back. Engraved were three words.
"Hiei and Megumi."
He sighed, slipping it back into his pocket. He had yet to fulfill his promise, and that upset him.
"Hiei?" Kurama called up the tree a few minutes later.
"What is it fox?" The growled back grumpily.
"Are you still set on finding her?"
Knowing what 'her' meant, Hiei sighed. "I promised Megumi."
Sighing, Kurama left the fire demon to grumble alone.
x.x.x.x
"Noooo!" A strangled cry echoed around the dormitory. However, this was normal, so no one went to look.
In dorm 1369 stayed Aaron Michaels. Sitting at her desk, was Aaron Michaels. And panicking over her book on sociology was- you guessed it – Aaron Michaels.
"Agh! This doesn't make. Any. Sense!"
"Aaron! Go to sleep!" Her roommate hissed, covering his head with a pillow.
"Shut up Garret! You already did your assignment!"
"Exactly," he replied, "Because I, unlike you, do not procrastinate."
"I do not procrastinate!" She tried, but soon gave up, hearing his snores.
Setting her book to rest, the girl sighed, walking over to her bed. "Night Garret," she said, turning out the light and laying down.
Meanwhile in Japan:
It was early morning, and the gang had all met in Koenma's office.
"Are you all ready to go?" The toddler sized lord asked.
"Yup," Yusuke answered for them all.
"Good." With a snap of his fingers, Botan appeared, opening a portal.
"Good luck boys!" The girl said cheerfully.
The boys stepped through the portal, not knowing what was to come.
x.x.x.x
"Aaron. Aaron! Wake up!" Garret shook the girl, trying to wake her. After a moment, her amber eyes creaked open.
"Good morning, best friend of mine," she said sleepily, before rolling over.
"Aaron! Remember that sociology test you've been studying for? That test is TODAY!" Seeming to wake up more, Aaron shot up, straight into the head of her roommate.
"Sunuva- Aaron! Get up and get dressed. Mike and I will meet you down stairs in 10." Garret ran from the room, ignoring the groaning girl.
10 minutes later, as promised, Aaron met Garret and his boyfriend Mike downstairs. "Hey Mike," Aaron greeted patting the fashionable boy on the back.
"Hey Aaron. I see poor Garret had to get you up again."
"It's not my fault he has to deal with me! The dorm adviser thought I was a guy because of my name, and that's how I ended up here. So, if Garret minded waking me up in the morning-."
"-Relax. I get it! I was kidding kid," Mike replied, rubbing her head.
Minutes of trying to stumble her way to the cafeteria later, Aaron held out her arms. "Some one carry me~" She whined.
Mike sighed, lifting her onto his back. Garret smiled at his boyfriend, "Thanks. I hate carrying her. She kicks."
"I do not."
"Right."
x.x.x.x
Okay. Twenty questions, one hour. It can't be that hard.
She was freaking out. As soon as the teacher had handed out the test papers, she started to tell herself she was ready. Now she was telling herself she would 'totally fail'.
Noooo! I'm going to DIE! No~!
"Aaron?"
This is impossible. Totally impossible.
"Ms. Michaels?"
I knew I should've done that stupid study guide!
"Ms. Michaels. Snap out of it. Let's step outside." Aaron jumped a few feet when Mrs. Kate grabbed her shoulder lightly, handing her a tissue.
Oh shit. I'm crying? She thought, wiping away drippy mascara. Standing, the teacher led her out. The last thing she saw before the door was shut was a worried looking Garret.
"Aaron, it's okay. Did you not get enough sleep last night?" Kate asked kindly, placing her hand on the girls shoulder.
Aaron nodded, tears rolling down her cheeks in streams.
"How about you go back to the dorms and sleep? I'll let you retake the test tomorrow. Let me write you a pass."
Aaron stayed in the hallway while she waited for the teacher to get her the pass.
The tired girl made her way painfully slowly back to the dorm. She wanted nothing more to collapse on her bed and sleep the day away.
Fumbling with the keys, she finally unlocked her door, slamming her way to the bed. She did not notice the murky creature standing in the corner, a sadistic smile on its face.
x.x.x.x
"Now, while I find us a hotel room, Kuwabara, find us somewhere to eat, Yusuke and Hiei go scout her dorm room," Kurama instructed. The group dissipated.
"North Georgia Boarding School," Yusuke read the sign using his fancy English translation book.
"Hn. Let's get this over with," Hiei muttered bitterly.
The two quickly and stealthily made their way towards the boy's dormitory using the lame map Koenma had drawn them.
"She lives in the boy's dorm?"
"Apparently."
A scream drew their attention to the hall. Sprinting off in that direction, the boys stopped in front of room 1369.
A cry of pain was heard, and with that confirmation, Yusuke broke down the door.
Pinned to the wall and covered in blood was a young girl. Their target, to be precise. Pinning her to the wall was a disgusting demon. Anger swept through Hiei and with a swing of his sword, the demon was dead. The girl dropped to the ground, crumpling.
"…You will know it is her by the traits she possesses."
Hiei shook the words away as they suddenly came to him.
"Hiei, help me get her to the bed." The demon did so, grabbing the girl's lower half. Once she was placed on the bed, Hiei pulled back her dark red hair as Yusuke looked her over to see where she was bleeding. The short-tempered man frowned when he saw two teeth marks on her neck. "It must've been a vampiric-demon. It bit her neck," he pointed out.
"Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Is she going to be okay?"
"If we get her to Kurama fast enough. Write a note, in English, telling her roommate that she went to stay with family for a while. Or something."
Yusuke sighed, going over to the desk. Grabbing a sticky note, he began scrawling down a letter, comparing it to the open notebook that happened to be there.
Meanwhile, Hiei had lifted the teen onto his back, nearly cringing from the heavy smell of blood.
"Let's go then," Yusuke said after a moment. Hiei 'hn'ed and followed him out the window.
x.x.x.x
"Lay her down here on the bed. There's no doubt that since you killed the demon that attacked her, we're about to be swarmed. Keep your guard up," Kurama ordered.
"…I will find this girl and protect her no matter what it costs me…"
Kuwabara chatted noisily with Kurama while the fox demon patched the unconscious girl up. At some point, a loud gasp was heard.
Kurama had just put the needle and thread through the wound in the girl's stomach, and she chose that time to wake up. A gasp had escaped her mouth, and she moved to the hand that hovered over the hole in her stomach, grasping it.
"Stop! It hurts!" She cried, still half unknowing to what was occurring.
"I'm sorry Aaron, but I have to stitch you up. Drink this," he put a glass in her hand after he had removed it from the death hold it had on his own, "and it'll numb the pain."
Aaron gulped down the drink with a gag, it was nasty. "Who are you people? And what happened to that thing that attacked me?" She asked in a spew of wakened questions.
"We were sent to protect you and bring you back with us. Hiei killed the demon that attacked you," Yusuke answered the fiery red head.
"What do you mean take me with you?" She hissed at him, choosing to direct her attention any where but the hole in her stomach.
"Hey, listen brat, it's an order we can't refuse. Would you rather have been killed by that demon?"
Aaron stopped talking for a while. Truth is, she wouldn't have cared if she'd been killed. All she had was a homosexual roommate (not that she didn't love the kid to death) and a jacked up dad waiting at home.
"Well, yeah. It's not like my dad would be sad. Garret would be pretty pissed and sad, but he has Mike. So, I don't really care," she answered.
Hiei glared at her from the corner of his eye. Something about her sentence made him boil in rage.
"Megumi. I'll do as you say…"
Hiei sighed. He was hearing his last conversation with his lover, again. He hated it. It bound him to a promise that he might not be able to keep. After all, it had been a thousand years, and he'd seen no trace of her.
But this Aaron girl reminded him so much of his Megumi. The same fiery red hair, the same slate gray eyes. Even the same attitude.
Then suddenly, a force hit him. It was agony, but he didn't cry out.
Aaron Michaels.
His eyes widened in astonishment.
This girl. Megumi. I found her.