A/N: Hey I'm back! (Finally) Midsummer Night's Dream is finally over. So I hope to get some extra writing in. That is, until Creation of the world starts (I'm designing costumes ^_^). I hope that you guys like this chapter. I don't know what to call it, so if you want to review *_~ then you can tell me what you think it should be called because "I'm not sure what to call this yet" isn't too great a title. Oh yeah:

I don't own YYH or Nara Ska. (She's all my sister's). Give a girl some credit for her characters. 

Part 19: I'm not sure what to call this yet

Firenzy let out a yell "YEAH!!! WE DID IT!! THAT WAS LIKE, SOO TOTALLY COOL!!!! DID YOU SEE ME WITH MY FIGHTING MOVES AGAINST THAT NARA SKA?! WOW!! WASN'T I JUST AWESOME??!!!"

Aniya rolled her eyes and replied sarcastically, "Yeah, it was so amazing of you to jump on Nara Ska when she couldn't see and then sit on her head so she couldn't get up. It was so cool."

"I'M GLAD THAT YOU THINK SO!!!!"

Gantoi winced, "Firenzy, I think that you can stop yelling at this point. We've all endured more noise today that we might have needed for the span of our entire lives."

"OH! OK-ay!" Everyone sighed, at least Firenzy's psycho opinions were at a more appropriate level. It was then decided that since Kurama's house was in fact, the closest, that they would head over there. Besides, there was a concerned son, brother, and I guess you could say boyfriend that wanted to check on Yukina and Mrs. Minamino.

As they were walking back, Yusuke fell into step with Aniya. "Hey, that was hard core stuff back there. Where'd you learn to do stuff like that?"

Aniya stopped for a moment. "I don't know. I want some of of these fucking strange things explained to me and I have a feeling that the only person, at this point, who could explain just what the hell has been going on is Laotsu."

Tarukon nodded, having overheard their conversation. "He's got some things he wants to say, but he says that first we need Sani, you and me to release him or something."

She shrugged. "Once we get back to Kurama's house, then everything better get clearer because this is confusing as hell."

As the group walked back, they failed to notice the pair of glowing red eyes that were following them, hidden in the shadows of the trees and buildings. Nara Ska cursed repeatedly. 'How could I have ever been so entirely convinced in what I was doing that I was so stupid to not notice that he was there? This is a disgrace. I cannot even begin to think about having him for a master.'

*****

Kurama and Hiei were the first of the group to reach the front door of the house. Taking out his key, Kurama opened the door. "Mother? Are you home?"

Mrs. Minamino came out of the kitchen with a wet dish and a dishtowel in her hands. "Hell Shuichi. I see you and your friends are back from your little outing."

Firenzy was about to blurt out, "Hey! Pretty lady!!! Don't you remember that I saved you!!" But Gantoi and Joe anticipated this and clamped their hands over his arms and mouth so that he couldn't blow their cover. Apparently, Kurama's mother and Yukina, since they were unconscious for the entire time, had no idea that they had been kidnapped. Mrs. Minamino looked at Firenzy strangely, because it appaeared that he was struggling with Joe on one side and air on the other. (On the account that Mrs. Minamino cannot see demons like Gantoi and Sani. Joe had his horns covered and his other two eyes were disguised at the moment).

Yukina came out of the kitchen as well. "Kazuma, you're back! Where did you go?"

Kuwabara, put on the spotlight, was not prepared to answer the question. "Uh….we…were….at…um…the park! Yeah, that was it! The park!"

"Did you have fun?"

Firenzy finally struggled out of Gantoi and Joe's grasps. "Yeah! We had fun!!! There was lots of bright lights and fighting and--!" The two other demons had re-established their grips and were forcefully escourting him into the living room.

Yukina looked surprised. "You were fighting?"

"Only practice battles. We weren't really trying. It was just a practicing exercise." Aniya reassured her, "Nobody was hurt. We just wanted to make sure that we were in shape."

"Oh! I see. For when you have to fight Sukeisa." Yukina smiled but then she remembered that Mrs. Minamino was not aware of demons and other non-human life forms. Everyone looked around quickly, but saw that Shiori had returned to the kitchen earlier and was in the midst of making some more tea for everyone.

Yukina went to the kitchen as well, to help get the teacups and everything ready. Kurama sighed. "We have to be on our guard with what we say. I suggest we all go into the living room and see if we can make any sense out of what has happened." Everyone agreed to this and followed Kurama.

Aniya's eyes lit up when she saw the sofa. Running over to it, she jumped onto it and promptly sat down on it as if it was the last thing she was ever going to sit on. Kurama smiled, remembering what had happened last time she was in his house and her reaction with the sofa. Tarukon came in and sat next to her, with Sani on his shoulder.

Hiei went over to the window and proceeded to lounge there. Firenzy was sitting, looking very angrily at the two demons on either side of him. They were looking around and whistling, somehow, Firenzy had managed to "have an accident with the duct tape" so that his mouth was taped shut and his arms were bound together. He glared at Gantoi and Joe.

Kuwabara, Yusuke and Botan came in and found places to sit, either on whatever chairs there were left or on the floor. It was, needless to say, somewhat crowded in there. Mrs. Minamino came in with tea for Yusuke, Botan, Kuwabara, Aniya, Tarukon, Hiei, Kurama and Firenzy. After she had left, Yukina came in with tea for  Gantoi and Joe, knowing that Mrs. Minamino would not have be able to see them. Before she left, she told them that she would continued to talk with Mrs. Minamino so there would not be any chance of her overhearing what they were saying.

Everyone smiled, and was grateful (because now they didn't have to pretend that Yukina hadn't been kidnapped (again) and that they hadn't already defeated Sukeisa). Then, everyone turned to look at Aniya and Tarukon. It was Botan who asked. "So what happened back there? You two seem to have changed a bit."

Aniya and Tarukon looked at each other then back a t everyone else. "We have no idea. But we know someone who could tell us what has been going on." Tarukon replied. "But we need to figure out a way to get him out here, so that he can talk to us. I think that he has been somewhat antsy to get out of my head for a while."

Sani flew down into Aniya's lap and chirped at her for some length. Aniya blinked. "Sani. I can understand you again…that must mean…" she looked at Tarukon for a bit, with a confused look on her face, she grabbed a piece of her hair, "Aw, crap. It's changed colors again." She looked down on Sani. "Okay, can you tell us what the fuck has been happening?"

'You need to get Laotsu out of Tarukon.  The only way to do this is use the Dragon calling technique.'

"And that is…?"

'You focus your mental energy on bringing that person from wherever they are to the place you want them to be. In this case, you need to focus hard on Laotsu. Since he is not in physical form, you should be able to drag him out of Tarukon's mind.'

"And this won't hurt Tarukon at all?"

'No. It shouldn't.'

"How can you be so sure?"

'I cannot explain. I do not have the authority to tell you these things. You must hear them from Laotsu yourself.'

Aniya rolled her eyes. 'Great. I've got a little dragon friend who is uncertain whether or not this technique thing that I've never used before will have a negative effect on my friend.' Then Aniya closed her eyes and thought about everything that she knew about Laotsu…

She could hear the gasps and almost sense the shock and awe that was radiating off of everyone else in the room. When she opened her eyes again, there was a little old man standing in the middle of the floor, with light blue robes on. His beard nearly touched the floor and his face was very wrinkled. (Think the emperor in Mulan, but with more of a Yoda kind of height).

"At last, I return." Then he looked around and spotted Tarukon. "You stupid boy! How you mess up? I tell you everything! You mess it up! I shamed to know you get my powers."

"…"  There was bunch of silence until Aniya broke it.

"Okay, so you're Laotsu?" The little man turned around and saw her. "Can you tell us what the fuck went wrong? What about the—"

"You too noisy for your own good. Be quiet and I explain all." Aniya glared at him.

"No, you be quiet. I've grown up my entire life and you screwed everything up. Nothing went according to the poem you told me!"

Laotsu looked confused. "What you mean? I tell you poem, and you follow it. What go wrong?" He seemed to think for a moment. Then he started mumbling. "Make allies, who do good….fight bad guy…inherit powers when time comes…there two children…"

Aniya gave him a bewildered look. "What are you talking about?"

"I recite poem about prophecy."

Tarukon, Kurama and Aniya gave each other confused looks. Kurama voiced the question. "Excuse me sir, but those were not particulars of the poem that you told Aniya."

"It not?"

Aniya shook her head. "No. This is the poem that you told me:

Even though I may be dead,
Sukeisa lives, his evil blood was not shed.
When the stars align in a winter sky,
His evil powers, will once again, begin to fly.
Who will help the good? Who could fight a power so wild?
Aide will come in the form of a dragon child.
She can wield the power in the stone and save you all,
But what good will she be is does fall?
Only with friends, can she let the power free,
So seven friends there will be,
Until the last minute, when it is almost too late,
Then and only then, will there be eight.
The seven will help her find the last,
Someone from her bitter past.
And without the eighth friend,
All that is good and pure will come to and end."

Laotsu stood, apparently shocked. "No, that for your daughter, Sani."

"My DAUGHTER??!"

"Her DAUGHTER??!"

The little old man nodded. "You not know?" She was sitting in shock. Slowly she shook her head. Then something hit her.

"What about the seven friends? I didn't need the seven?"

Laotsu shook his head. "No."

Aniya sweat-dropped. "So you mean to say that I made friends with this baka" she said pointing at Kuwabara "and this baka" she pointed at Hiei "for nothing?!" Aniya stood up, enraged. "What the hell is up with that? You tell me to make friends with Gengkai, Koenma, Botan, Kuwabara, Yusuke, Kurama, Hiei and Yukina. Then in the end I didn't need to know Gengkai, Koenma or Yukina and I needed to know Gantoi, Firenzy and Joe!"

"Is all bullshit."

"What." Aniya gave him a death glare. "Do you mean?"

"I make it all up. I bored. Your prophecy all bullshit." He smiled.

Tarukon was mad too. "You mean to say that you put Aniya's life on the line? Why?"

"I not put her life on the line. She take care of herself."

Aniya frowned. "Then why the hell did you tell me the fucking poem? All it did was screw me up. You showed me pictures of Yukina when I was little and I believed that I had to find her, and she was the eighth friend that I needed." She plowed on, regardless of the fact that Laotsu was trying to put something in. "Then you send me that freako dream that said that Hiei was the eighth one. What the fuck was going on?"

Laotsu smiled, "That whole part of plan."

"Wha?"

"I succeed in confusing you, enemy not know truth either." Sani flew onto his shoulder and nodded.

'You see, Aniya. There always was a chance that Sukeisa would have been able to find you and so Laotsu was supposed to tell you a prophecy that was completely made up so that he wouldn't be able to figure out who he had to stop in order to stop you. If Laotsu had told you the prophecy that you needed to win this, then Tarukon would have been dead much earlier.'

Aniya whipped her head around and frowned at Tarukon, giving him a look that asked, 'Do you understand what's going on?'

"You wonder why it Tarukon? Well, it time to explain your past."

Aniya rolled her eyes. "Okay, I may be confused, but I know this much. I'm the dragon child, the weapon created by you when you lived in the olden times to fight the Sukeisa of the future." She looked the little man in the eye. "I'd also like to know why the fuck my hair has been through more color changes than Pink."

"Who Pink?"

"Never mind."

"Okay." Laotsu smiled. "You and Tarukon are dragons."

Tarukon and Aniya gave each other a disbelieving look and Tarukon kindly pointed out Laotsu's mistake. "You're slightly wrong there. I am a hu-man and Aniya is a dra-Con. Not a dragon."

Laotsu shook his head. "I right. You and Tarukon are dragons. You black dragon and Tarukon silver dragon."

"But we were all told that you were the silver dragon." Laotsu nodded at Gantoi.

"I am."

"Then why are you telling us that he's the silver dragon?"

"He inherit my power."

"WHAT???! THAT IS SO TOTALLY COOL???!!! CAN I INHERIT POWERS TOO????!"

Everyone glared at him. "SHUT UP FIRENZY!!"

Firenzy sulked in his chair.

Laotsu rubbed his head. "I take Tarukon and Aniya for a walk. Be back later." He stood up and moved out of the room. Turning around he beckoned the two to follow him. Firenzy nearly tried to follow, but Gantoi and Joe were quick to stop him. As soon as the three were out of the room, Koenma appeared.

"Hello everyone."

Yusuke was angry. "You knew that we'd have to fight Sukeisa in the end, didn't you?"

Koenma appeared to think for a moment. "Ummm…. maybe?"

"Aniya didn't actually need our help in reclaiming the Astoria stone, did she?"

"Now that you think of it…no."

"THEN WHY THE HELL DID YOU SEND US ON THE MISSION IN THE FIRST PLACE?!"

"Calm down, Yusuke. I had to get you acquainted to her somehow, and that mission seemed the only time that would make sense for you to get to know her." He sighed. "Whether she likes to admit it or not, she really needed your powers for the last battle. Without that she might not have had the strength to kill Sukeisa."

Botan asked, "Why did Laotsu tell Aniya the wrong poem, and show her images of the wrong people? I still don't understand. Wouldn't that be hurting her more than helping her?"

Koenma shook his head. "But by telling her the wrong poem, when Sukeisa accessed her mind, he thought that that poem was the true prophecy and planned all of his counter attacks according to the poem, and the fact that he thought that she was just a dracon, instead of the dragon that she really is."

"So if Sukeisa planned attacks, anticipating for certain maneuvers, then he would be unprepared if anything else happened, as was the case."

Koenma nodded at Kurama. "That's right. That was also why Laotsu also pretended to shift the attention of the "eighth friend" from Yukina to Hiei, even though Tarukon would have been the real "eighth friend", because then Sukeisa would not know which to target. By changing the person to someone else who was not even the real eighth person, Sukeisa would spend more time trying to figure out which one was the real one, and totally ignoring that his "son" was the actual person."

Yusuke rolled his eyes. "Great. That makes a whole lotta sense."

"It isn't supposed to. That's the whole point. Confuse the enemy almost as much as us and there's no way that he could win."

"Great strategy." Replied Yusuke sarcastically.

"I'm glad you think so Yusuke." Koenma replied.

"What's going on? I'm so confused…." Kuwabara said scratching his head.

Everyone in the room sweat-dropped except Firenzy, who was still sulking.

*****

Tarukon and Aniya were walking on either side of Laotsu. Both of them were somewhat confused. Aniya stared up at the sky. 'Why the fuck is he taking us on a walk?'

'Maybe he wants some exercise.'

Aniya's head whipped over to look at Tarukon. 'Did he just talk to me telepathically?'

'Afraid so.'

'You can speak telepathically.'

'You've said this already.'

'Well I was just checking, because you weren't able to before.'

'But that was before all this happened.'

'Oh, right.'

The two suddenly realized that they had fallen behind Laotsu. "Come on! You have time for being in love later!"

Aniya and Tarukon's jaws dropped. "We weren't" "We aren't" They said at the same time. They looked at each other and then quickly glared at the little old man who was grinning. He was more devious than the matchmaker in Fiddler on the Roof.

Laotsu smiled some more. "We nearly there. No worry."

"Good, 'cause I'm getting tired of you leading us around."

He suddenly stopped. "We here."

Aniya and Tarukon looked around. It was a perfectly normal alleyway. Aniya looked around, suddenly suspicious.

"Hey, this looks a lot like my house….wait! It is my place! What the fuck are we doing here?"

Laotsu turned around and…three guesses what he did. Yup, he smiled. "We here because it a dragon place."

Aniya crossed her arms. "Okay little guy. I've had enough crap from you. Explain what the hell has been going on and just what the fuck has been happening to us."

"Okay. Let us inside and I explain everything."

With that, Aniya performed the spell to allow her to open the door and they went inside.

A/N: Well, it looks like I'll get one more chapter in here after all. Sorry that I couldn't update sooner. As mentioned above, please send me suggestions for the chapter title. I have run out of chapter titles and I have no idea what to call this one.