Waking Up With Magic
Chapter 3
By: ShadowsOfTheHeart

"I have seen the look that crosses your eyes when you are thinking of her, one day you will look that way for me."

Note: I do not Own Yu Yu Haklusho,

SORRY for the long wait, I have been busy up to my eyes balls with work, night classes and just plain stupid shit... I will get this story on track, now that I have an app on my iPhone to write while I'm at work...lol...

ENJOY... HAPPY SUMMER!


The rain fell heavy from the sky like painful tear drops, her natural blond hair matted to her face dripping water down her neck, spilling onto her pink school uniform. Her gray eyes were angry, hard and cold. He had hugged that girl, that ugly red head that was always around him. He hugged her and smiled at her.

Pounding was the sound of the rain as it hit the pavement where she stood, just feet away from where Hogo had hugged that girl. Pounding was the sound of her heart as her anger rose with every minute she stood glaring at the place where the crime had happened. Deep was her breathing as she struggled to stay in control.

This was not something that she could simply write about; this was gone far beyond what her obsession would aloud.


I planted Hollybella in front of me and started to clean up her face, "No wonder I'm so damn clumsy, between you and mother I don't know who's worst" I leaned in closed to her face so I could get a look at the nice goose egg that was forming on her forehead.

She smiled at me before pushing me back "It runs in the family, Michael is just as bad" she laughed at this.

"I never got that from him, does it worst as the gene pool gets diluted?" I teased chucking the cloth at her face before I moved to my closet to get her some dry clothes.

"You know I never thought of it like that" She mused taking the cloth and chucking it behind her while she shot me a bright smiled and kicked her feet back on forth. She was in my desk chair, and she was too short to reach the floor.

I just shrugged at her remark and opened the closet door. I was about use to her now, and how much we look alike. But we also looked different; everyone who has seen use together has said it.

Her green eyes are lighter, her hair is not as red, her skin is darker than mine, and she looks like she has spend most of her life in a hot area. The shape of her face is rounder then mine, her cheek bones are higher. Her lips are thinner than mine and darker; she will never need to put lipstick on.

She asked me yesterday what I would think about her getting her hair cut shorter, she wants it to touch her shoulders and layered around her face. Right now it touched the floor, she keeps in braids most of the time to keep it from dragging. Her overall frame was small, frail almost, not strong from years of fighting like my mother. Though she is outspoken, she is also passive, shy, and she's a little scared of the world she never got a chance to live in.

I turned to her with a smile with a nightmare before Christmas t-shirt and light blue pj bottoms. "Here, its smallest thing I got" she jumped out of my desk chair and bounced over to me.

"Thank you" she beamed as she took the garments from my hands, for the way she looks there is strength in that small frame of hers. "Oh and Holly" she asked with a turn of her body where she proceeded over to my bed.

"Yes?" I answered back unsure, it's never good with she says "Oh and Holly" it's never gives me a warm fuzzy.

"There was a girl today, she was standing outside of the house" she started while piling off her wet black sweater, she threw it over to my clothes basket and unclipped her red braw.

"I don't recall seeing anyone" I ansered walking over to my desk chair and taking a seat.

"It was hard to notice, her hair was really blond, I don't think it was fake though" she finished with a flick of her wet hair and rolled it into a bun. "She was also wearing your school uniform" with that said she pulled on the t-ship and proceeded to take off her water logged blue jeans.

I tilted my head "My school uniform, there's only a hand full of people in that school with blond hair, most of them are foreign. Did you get a look at her face?" I wonder as she put on the pj bottoms and flopped back on my bed. "Hey sit up your hair is wet" I stressed moving to her.

"Comfy" she muttered

"You'll get comfy" I stressed grabbing her arms and pulling her up. "I don't want a soggy bed"

"Calm down, my hair isn't all that wet and no I didn't get a look at her face, I tripped after I saw her" she stated plainly as I let her arms go, she once again flopped back on my bed, I sighed, might as well leave her alone. "She 's also a mage, I caught her magic flare when Hojo picked me up, wind, element air"

"How can you tell, you have no magic?" I said it straight forward like, because I know if I didn't she would lean me around for hours with something stupid.

She's pure evil at times.

"I may have no magic, but I can still tell a mage anywhere's, they all have the same air around them, that and I seen gray dust like particles swirl around her as I fell, dead giveaway" she rolled on her side and smiled at me and gave her head a tilt, "She looked angry"

"Did you flip her off as you fell?" I slewed my eyes at her,

"No, like I said if I hadn't had fell I probably wouldn't have notice her, are you sure you don't know who she is?"

I sighed at her before leaning back in my chair "No, I don't know, maybe, I would have to see her to know, besides what are you doing here anyways? Shouldn't you be at Alistair's?"

"Well there's a story behind that" she rolled on her back again and giggled "but I think he should tell you" laughter broker out of her small body as she clutched her sides.

"I don't think I want to know"


She cracked the old Victorian mirror that has always been above her vanity, its silver shards fell to the floor in smooth rough movement, shattering up on impact on the cold marble floor. Tears of hate ran down her white face, she couldn't look at herself; she couldn't stand seeing the face that he rejected. Why, she knew she was pretty, she knew she was beautiful.

Why?

Why did he look the other way?

Simple.

He likes someone else, someone special to him, someone important to him.

She couldn't comprehend it, there was no way that girl was more, pretty, cuter then she. There was no way her blond hair could be second her that mess of red, there was just no way. She turned to her window as the rain pelted agents the glass, her angry gray eyes gleamed back at her, she was sick, sick of being second to that red hair freak.

"I won't lose Holly, I won't," she turned with a laugh "I'm going to shower her what her lover really is, I will crush your life like you have killed mine"


"Holly can I come in?" I sneezed as I waved Lucy into my room.

"Oh someone is talking about you" I glared at Hollybella and her muffled giggles,

"Sure, Lucy hit that will you" I turned from them while Lucy laughed at me.

"You two are cute" was all she said, I sighed and moved back around, there was something on Lucy's mind.

"Okay what's wrong?" I glanced over to her and sat down in my desk chair.

"There's nothing wrong, Hollybella let me see your hair I want to play with it"

I stopped her there "Don't play with me Lucy tell me what's wrong or Mr.." she flew off the bed and her hand was around my mouth before I could say another word.

I sighed under her hand as she glared at me with her chestnut eyes, really she can be such a kid sometimes. "Lucy calm down, come back over and play with my hair" there was laughter in my aunts voice, damn her that girl is enjoying this.

I felt Lucy relax her hand as she gave me a warning glare before fully pulling away, making the air where her hand was clasp cold. I shrugged as I watched her back up to my bed; I think she's worried I might jump her if she turned her back on me.

Silly girl I can pin her without alluding to dirty tricks.

"Holly" Lucy sat on my bed and sigh as she motioned for Hollybella to come closer to her, she was ready to talk now.

"Yes?" I need to be smooth about this, Lucy is the type that will up and walk away if she doesn't like your reactions. That girl is something else at times, but that's what I liked the most about her.

"I'm sorry I ran away from you the other day, I didn't know how to act now that you know about mine and Alastair's situation." She placed her shaky hands on Hollybella's shoulders and took in a long breath.

"Don't worry about it, I thought it was cute" I gave her a warm smile, I can't let her know that I had actually burst out laughing, ah her face had turned bright red and she booked it out of there like hell's fire.

Of course Alistair hit me in the back of the head, damn him, I will have my revenge.

"You're bad at lying Holly-chan. I heard you laughing all the way down the hall" she puffed out her cheeks, but giggled it off and pulled Hollybella's hair out of its bun. "I would have laughed too" she added while Hollybella's red wet main of red slapped agents her dry shirt, great now I'm going to have to get her a another one.

I sighed and leaned back in my chair.

I watch as Lucy finger come that wet hair, it was slow, sweet, and in those movements she started to hum, it was hypnotic like, driving my mind to another red head that gets on my nerves. I wonder what Kurama is doing; he was gone again, to the demon world. I get worried every time he leaves; worry that he might not come back. He gets that look in his eyes sometimes, that far away thinking look, deep behind those eyes thinking about things that he will never dream of telling me. He is a demon; Mages and demon usually don't get along.

He's worry; I know his worry that a powerful demon will find out about me and try to use him to get to me or the other way around.

He's worried I will get killed because of him.

"Holly your gone again" I jump from the warning in Hollybella's voice, she told me before not to dive into deep with my searching of the everything and nothing, I could get lost and never come back.

"Sorry, sorry I just got thinking and then I don't know; it's hard to stay out of my head when I get into a good trail of thought." I gave my head a shake "okay, Lucy you where saying?" I waved for to go on, she sight with a giggle before starting to braid Hollybella hair.

"Me and Alistair have a meeting with the circle's head in two weeks, he will decide then whether to dissolve the contract or not" she didn't want to say names; Lucy was worried Hojo will hear us.

I'm pretty sure he would have a kitten if he found out.

And there was that word again dissolved.

It seemed too harsh and black to be use when talking about this marriage. It was like they wanted to make sure everything they had was erased, forever, that was just too sad.

"Holly are you sure you want this?" I need her to understand that what she's doing is wrong.

"Of course, I don't love him remember" her pitch change, she averted her eyes from me; she lost her place in the hair binding.

"You know that would be a lot more believable if I didn't know you were lying" she jumped and lost the unfinished braid from her already sneaky hands. I seen a smirk appear on Hollybella's face as her own predicament made a light go on.

I was right, those two idiots are in love with one another.

Stupid dumnasses.

"You're in love with him and you still want to do this, why?" Hollybella asked plainly, she was trying to hide her ever growing smirk and enjoyment.

"I, well, it's different, I want to know that there is someone else for me, it's horrible feeling trapped like this. Just knowing I have power over someone and them over me, it's like a person. And I want to try loving some else." She fiddled with her own hair and sighed heavily.

"You will never love someone else when your heart has already been given away" the room went silence as we all turned to the door to see Hojo leaning on the door frame with his arms crossed over his chest, looking rather pissed.

"Shit, how long have you been there?" I moved out my chair and in front of Lucy.

"Not long, but as for this marriage thing, I have known about it for years." I fell to the floor and laughed while Lucy gasped.

"Seriously?"

"It's hard being mage twins isn't it" Hollybella stated sliding off the bed and sitting next to me. She was getting tired now. "We know things, was hear things and most of all when a mage twin gets married the connection that holds the twins as one is thinned almost to the point of breaking. Lucy you must have noticed how hard it has been to know where Hojo is since the marriage?"

"I just thought it was because we're just growing out of it"

"No sadly, Look at Holly and Alistair, they can hear one another's thoughts and feel one another's pain without even realizing it, you two have to focus just to get a word through. Lucy when was the last time you even felt Hojo physical or emotional pain?" She snuggled into my shoulder and went on, before Lucy could answer "Hojo know the moment you kissed Alistair above his heart and he yours" I looked down at her; she was snuggled into my arm hiding her face. I could feel her heart rate rise, her breaths is getting ragged and unnerved.

She is starting to get a fever.

"Hojo is that true? Did you know?" I tilted my head back to looked at Lucy, she was ready to kill him, I wouldn't balm her.

"Yes, now before you try and kill me, listen and listen closely. If the council comes to vote and they dissolve the marriage and you two idiots are in love with one another, the spell could backlash and kill you both." He held up his hand stopping Lucy before she could complain, Hollybella's light breathing caught my ears, she was asleep.

Strange girl.

"A marriage connection gets stronger over time; you and Alistair have been married since you two where 6 that was over 10 years ago, 10 years for that spell to mature and to set deep roots. It's going to be like trying to pull up a full grown Douglas Furr." His eyes landed on me before they shifted to the now sleep Hollybella. "She has a fever"

"I know" I watched him struggle with hidden emotions, he didn't know if he should come over and check for himself or just leave it to me and Lucy.

"Hojo why didn't you tell me this sooner?" Lucy was getting annoyed, I sighed, can't these two fight in their own room?

"Would you have listened? You have spent the last seven years ignoring him" he sighed and moved further into the room, he was still debating weather not to come over and pick Hollybella up and put her on the bed.

I wonder why she snuggled into me and just didn't pass out on the bed?

"I didn't ignore him?" she defended with a high voice, she was lying again.

"Lucy will you please stop with the lying, and just admit you're in love with Alistair. This childishness is getting on my last nerve." Okay I may have said that a little too harsh, and Lucy gasp and deep angry breath confirmed that. Ah damn, I hope she doesn't us her magic on my ass. I'm still useless with defence magic.

I felt the tingle of magic in the air as the tiny hair on the back of my neck stood up as the smell of wild flowers filled the room, ah damn it. "Tskui calm down, throwing a nightmare spell at her isn't going to hide the fact that what she said was true." Thank you Hojo for the cover, if one thing is for sure Hojo's magic is stronger than Lucy's, that and we agreed not to use magic in the house.

More so for me, I still tend to blew stuff up, understandable really.

I heard her sigh as the air turned back to normal and her wild flower sent faded away, "Lucy I would like to say sorry but, come on you where at my neck for weeks about me not admitting that I liked Kurama, you even called me names. I think you're getting it pretty good here." I heard she sift on the bed, air fluttered around me as her face appeared above mine.

I sighed and looked up at her as to say –what-

"That was different, you two didn't get married as kids, and didn't even know it" she was red in the face she was determined to win this fight.

I sighed and blew in her face "You have two weeks right? Why do you two go on a date or something and figure this shit out. You two can't pretend that this will just go away if you both continue ignore each other till the meeting."

I got the –WFT- look from her before she finally sighed and rolled away from my face. I felt the bed bend and shift over her weight. "I guess it wouldn't be the end of the world if we spend a bit of time together" she sighted out in a whisper; this was good we're making progress.

"Go, now, Hojo could you pick Hollybella up for me, and put her on the bed, I'm going to go downstairs and get some water and a cold cloth. Lucy do you think you can do your healing thing to bring her fever down?" Hojo didn't say anything as he move quicker then I would have thought to Hollybella and me. He was smooth as he knelt down and gentle as he took her shoulders and move her around so her could place his right arm over her lags.

I'm beginning to think he was also in denial about his own confusing feelings.

"Hojo set her here" I Heard Lucy state as Hojo picked Hollybella up without effort. I pushed myself off the floor, ignoring the fact my butt was numb, and stretched. I watched out of the corner of my eye as Hojo place my aunt on my bed; again he was gentle and careful not to wake her. I smiled at this, he was usually so detached from girls, I really hope that these signs are a hint of something more.

"I'll be back shortly" I stated moving to the door, I hide my smile from him, I know if I call him out on anything he just did, hell would break lose.

Sometimes I wonder witch twin was more a drama queen.


Kurama stopped as he landed on the ledge of his window, his eyes didn't miss the light that was still on in his girlfriends room. That window was slightly opened carrying the scents of the twin mages, and the now human aunt. Holly's sent lingered in the air telling him she was just in the room with them. It was late, too late for them to be up on a school night.

He pushed of the window and fell to the ground, just as the kitchen light flicked on and the silhouette of Holly's pony tail hair move around. He smirked as he landed on the wet ground; he made no sound as he flicked out of sight, moving through shadows towards Holly's kitchen door.

He needed to see her, he needed to hold her; he needed to know that there was still some trace of human still left in him.


I tensed as demonic energy made my hairs stand on ends as the scent of a hot spring forest and wild roses filled my senses. He was back, he was back and, I turned around fast as strong arms embraces me, pulling me into his hard chest. The scent of wild roses was over powering, he had been in his demon form today.

I could feel his fast heart rate, his skin was hot; he was almost panic.

"Kurama, are you okay?" I whispered trying to move him back so I could see his face, he didn't answer and he didn't budge, his face was buried in my hair and he took in a long breath.

"I missed you" it was a deep whisper, smooth and true.

"What happened?" He wasn't acting normal, than again he never really acts normal.

"Just stay like this for awhile, just let me hold you for a few minutes" I sank into his smooth voice, his low human voice that always made me melt.

"Okay" I whispered back and wrapped my arms around his mid section, something had him freaked, and I think it had something, if not all to do with his demonic side and the amount of time he has been spending in the demon world.

I want to ask, I want to know what he's been doing so I can help, but he will never till me, he will never bring himself to put me in danger, even if I'm willing to put myself in danger for him, like he has done for me.

But, he would rather leave me then let that happen.

Pain struck me as that thought passed behind my eyes and heart. "Don't leave" I whispered it without control. I knew he heard me, he didn't respond he just held me closer letting me hear his quicken heart beat and making me smell that powerful yet fading sent of wild roses left from his powerful demonic side.


"I don't think Holly is going to be back anytime soon" Lucy stated with a giggle of a sigh.

"That demon has no bounties; I should kill him for break and entry"

"Shut it Hojo, you're so jealous you can't see straight" Lucy pulled the cover over Hollybella shoulder and place her cold hand on the teen's hot forehead.

"I'm not jealous, and your one to talk" He didn't hide his annoyance as he moved from the bed and to the door "It's too late for him to be over"

"Hojo let them be, I'll admit that I still get jealous at times, but she is our sister, and Kurama is, will he's my friend at least." She closed her eyes and let her cool healing magic flow into the former void mage.

"I," He stopped and sighed "I guess I'm just as bad as you"

"I guess we are still strongly connect, just on a different level" she giggled before she sighed "Hojo does Alistair know that you know?"

"No" it was simple as he turned back around to face his sister and sleeping Hollybella.

"Should we tell him?"

"I really don't care, but it would take some stress off him" he sighed again and moved back to the bed "Tskui think hard about this, I don't want you or Alistair to die trying to undo this" he paused looking for the right word. "Event"

"I don't want to die either" she took in a breath and opened her eyes "there we go, she should be fine now, humans are so much easier to heal"

"I still find it hard to believe that she was dead up until a few months ago" he scanned her sleeping face, a face so much like Holly's and Rosa, but different all the same.

"From what I got out of Hollybella, Holly somehow created an awaking spell, using the possessed mage's build up energy to create a new body for Hollybella's soul, because since she killed herself she wasn't actually dead. Holly has no idea how she did it herself, she just remembering wishing really hard that Hollybella would come back to life." Lucy moved a stray hair from Hollybella's face. "I don't think she can actually bring someone back from the dead, this was a special case"

"That being said, remember what I told you about your own situation" Hojo placed a firm hand on Lucy's shoulder.

"I will" she whispered in a sigh.


She watched them for her mirror of dreams and death. Her plan to expose Shuichi for the demon he is can longer be done, that girl already knew, she knew her lover was a demon and didn't care.

She snarled at the mirror and hissed at the outcome of her failed plan.

She needed to regroup, she needed a new way to destroy that girl and have Hojo to herself. There was the sister, but she has a powerful war mage as her husband, going after the family would be suicide.

She needed to do this with control and calmness, she needed to get inside their group and destroy it from the inside out.

She knew who to befriend first, with her trust the others will easily follow.

She smiled as her obsession placed a hand on his sister shoulder, she could not heard what they had been saying but didn't need to, she has all that she needed to now get what she wants.

"You will be mine Hojo" she placed her frail hand on the mirror and kissed his cheek

"You will be mine"


Chapter 4 Preview

"Hi my name is Maria, I was wondering if I could join the track team?"

"You, you don't look like a runner?"

"Holly-chan be nice Maria is our classmate, besides we could use an extra person for the summer track meets and camps"

"Humm.. will then, you will have to ask the coach, frankly, and I don't mean to be mean, you really don't look like a runner."

"I'm not, I want to me the team manager"