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'Blah' thoughts
'Blah' is Kurama telepathic
'Blah' is Youko telepathic
'Blah' is Hiei telepathic
Here's the story.
Chapter 9: What?
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"Let me in damn it." Yusuke yelled at the cowering ogre.
"I-I c-can't. K-Koenma is in a m-meeting and d-doesn't want to be i-interrupted." The ogre stuttered as he put his arms over his head for protection. Yusuke pushed him aside.
"I don't give a damn." He said walking through the door. "Yo! Toddler! We got the girl." He yelled. Meranii scoffed.
"More like escorted." Meranii muttered. Koenma glared at him.
"I'M NOT A TODDLER!" Koenma yelled, but everyone was ignoring him. They were all looking at the other person in the room, who had just stood up. Koenma calmed himself down. "This is Lord…"before he could finish Sango and Kagome rushed forward and enveloped the stranger in a hug.
"Sesshoumaru!" They yelled excitedly. Sesshoumaru, to mostly everyone's surprise, hugged them back.
"Who's that?" Yusuke asked Kurama.
"That's the Demon Lord of a Makai." Kurama said. Keiko nodded in understanding while Yusuke's face got darker in question.
"umm….Lord Sesshoumaru?" Koenma questioned, causing the girls to let him go and blush in embarrassment.
"I guess we have some more explaining to do." Kagome said to Sango. She nodded. Meranii walked over.
"You don't have to explain anything if you don't want to." Meranii said standing in front of Sesshoumaru. "Nice to see you again, Fluffy-sama." She said, emphasizing on "Fluffy-sama". Sesshoumaru's face got darker at the nick-name.
"Nice to see you again too." Sesshoumaru said, scooping Meranii up in a hug, shocking everyone in the room again. He put her back down and looked at Ryuun
"Nice to see you again, Lord Ryuun." Sesshoumaru said. Ryuun bowed slightly.
"Nice to see you as well." Ryuun said.
"You're a lord!" Yusuke exclaimed. Ryuun nodded.
"Then why are you working for Koenma?" Kagome asked.
"Well I'm the adopted son of the Lord and Lady of the northern part of Makai." Ryuun explained. "I'm not even the same type of demon as them, but they consider me their son. Well I got bored and wanted something to do so I decided to help out Ren-Kai."
"What type of demon are you?" Meranii asked, her eyes flicking with some unknown emotion. Ryuun shrugged.
"I honestly don't know." Ryuun said rubbing the back of his head sheepishly. The groups sweat dropped and Meranii nodded her head, as if confirming something.
"How do you not know what you are?" Sango asked.
"I lost my memory of everything from before I was eight except my name, my birthday, my age." Ryuun said shrugging. "None of my parents' consultants could figure out what I was so I guess I'm unknown." The room fell into a silence. Sesshoumaru cleared his throat, not liking the silence and looked toward Koenma.
"Thank you for finding these two." Sesshoumaru said motioning to Kagome and Sango.
"You had him watching us!" Kagome and Sango asked surprised. They heard a growl behind them but when they looked only Kurama and Hiei were there. 'Must be my imagination.' They thought and glared at Sesshoumaru and Koenma. They both shook their heads.
"I haven't watched you at all." Koenma said, throwing a questioning look at the growling Kurama and Hiei. "Lord Sesshoumaru asked me a while ago to keep my ears open for a girl that can travel time and to inform him when I found her. When the boys told me about you I knew that it is who Lord Sesshoumaru wanted." Koenma explained. Yusuke came and sat by Kagome.
"So how is it that you know a demon lord?" He questioned. Kagome sighed.
"I guess we will tell you." Kagome said sitting on the couch with Sango. "It happened when Sango and I were walking back from the hot springs…
-/-Flashback-/-
"That was so refreshing." Kagome exclaimed, stretching her arms above her head. "I feel so much better."
"I feel better too." Sango said, searching the trees for any danger. She turned to Kagome and smiled when she didn't find anything. "My shoulder isn't as sore now."
"We better hurry back before Inuyasha thinks it's a good idea to come and get us." Kagome said smiling. Sango smiled and open her mouth to speak but a scream of pain/terror came from the forest behind them. Kagome and Sango went running back through the forest.
They came to a small clearing and saw a little girl, about eight or nine, scrambling away from a group of pig looking demons. Sango, not wasting a second, threw her Hiraikotsu and took out half of them. Kagome ran over and pulled the girl out of the way. Sango took out the rest of the demons and walked over to them.
"Are you ok?" Kagome asked. The girl looked up from Kagome's shoulder. Kagome and Sango were shocked to see Rin, the little girl that traveled with Sesshoumaru.
"Rin's leg hurts." Rin said, lifting up her kimono a little to show a gash on her leg.
"Why don't you let me wrap that." Kagome said handing Rin to Sango and getting into her bag. She pulled out the first-aid kit. Shippo went up to Rin.
"Don't worry. Kagome can make everything feel better." Shippo said. Kagome came up and gently grabbed Rin's leg.
"Shippo. Do you think you could got tell Inuyasha that we'll be there shortly?" Kagome asked putting some cleaner on a rag. Shippo puffed out his chest.
"Yep. You can count on me." He said, running off. Kagome smiled after him. She looked back at Rin.
"This might sting a little." She said putting the cleaner on. Rin winced a little but didn't say anything.
"Why were you out so late by yourself Rin?" Sango asked, rubber her head in a comforting manner. "It's not safe, especially in the woods." Rin looked down ashamed.
"Rin was trying to find Sesshoumaru-sama." She said. "He left earlier and Master Jaken said that he left because he didn't like Rin." She said on the verge of tears, but her face lightened and she smiled almost evilly. "But then Rin beat him up and hid his staff of skull in a really hard to find place." She said laughing. Kagome and Sango tried to keep from laughing. "Then Rin went looking for Sesshoumaru-sama and then the demons attacked Rin."
"There all done." Kagome said, backing away. Rin got up and put some weight on her leg.
"Wow! It doesn't hurt anymore." Rin exclaimed, jumping around.
"Rin. Why don't you come back to camp with us." Sango said getting up. "We can look for Sesshoumaru in the morning, ok?" Rin thought for a second.
"Sure." Rin said and started following Kagome and Sango.
"That will not be happening." A cold voice said behind them. The girls spun around, Sango ready to throw Hiraikotsu and Kagome stringing an arrow. There stood Sesshoumaru and a bruised and battered Jaken at his side.
"Sesshoumaru-sama!" Rin exclaimed and latched on to his leg. He patted her on the head, not taking his eyes off the girls. Rin saw this and ran over to the two. "These pretty ladies saved Rin's life." She said, causing the girls to blush at the compliment.
"Did they?" Sesshoumaru asked, raising a brow. Rin nodded vigorously. "I am in debited to you priestess, exterminator." He said nodded his head to each of them. "Come Rin. We're leaving." He said and started walking away. Rin ran up and gave the girls a hug around the waist at the same time, then ran off to catch up with Sesshoumaru. Rin turned around and waved.
"Goodbye Sango-chan, Kagome-chan." Rin yelled back to them. Kagome and Sango waved.
"Goodbye Rin-chan." They yelled at the same time.
-/- End Flashback -/-
"And it got to the point were we looked at him as a brother." Sango finished for Kagome. Everyone looked on in understanding, beside Koenma, who was studying Meranii, Kurama, who was giving Meranii a questioning look, and Hiei, who was glaring at the wall.
"What I would like to know it how do you know him?" Kurama asked Meranii. Meranii shrugged.
"I warned him about a conspiracy against him amongst some of the other lords and helped with the war." Meranii said shrugging her shoulders again. Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes.
"If she hadn't of helped I could have lost that war." He said in a cold voice. Meranii ignored him and walked up to Koenma's desk.
"I need to talk to you." She said to him. She looked around the room at everyone. "Alone." Koenma waved his hand some ogre came and ushered them out the room.
"What did you need to talk about?" Was the last thing they heard before the door closed.
-/- One hour and a half later-/-
"I am so damned bored." Yusuke exclaimed, hitting the sleeping Kuwabara.
"Be nice to Kazuma." Yukina, who had arrived with Boton about ten minutes ago, said in a scolding voice. Keiko hit Yusuke on the head halfheartedly.
"Shh you guys. We can't hear." Kagome said from her place at the door, Sango right next to her. Shippo was up against the door also. Since they didn't have anything to do, they thought they'd try to listen in and see what they were talking about. Even after they found that they couldn't hear anything they still tried. Just then, as the fates would have it, the door opened revealing a pissed looking Sesshoumaru and causing the girls the fall on the floor at his feet. Shippo jumped out of the way in the knick of time.
"Umm… Hey Sesshy!" Sango said brightly. "What can we do for you?" Sesshoumaru shook his head.
"One of these days your curiosity is going to get you both killed." He said helping them up.
"Come in and sit. We have things to discuss." Koenma called. Everyone came in and sat, or stood, it various places. "First off this is your new team mate." Koenma said, motioning to Meranii.
"What!" Yusuke yelled. "You mean you had us track her down just so she can join our team!"
"No Yusuke. This was a spur of the moment thing." Koenma said. "You'll need the knowledge she has for your next mission." Koenma said. Yusuke stood up angrily.
"So is it another recruit?" Yusuke asked sarcastically. Keiko pulled him back down to the couch. Yusuke glared at her and stood up again. Keiko pulled him down again.
"Don't make me treat you like a kid." Keiko said in a threatening voice. Everyone else in the room were watching amused. Yusuke gave her a 'whatever' look and stood up again. Keiko growled, surprisingly well for a human, and pulled him back down. Before he could get up again she sat on his lap making him freeze and go red from head to toe. Keiko got a little red too. "You can go on Koenma."
"Fist off do any of you know the prophecy of the barriers?" Koenma looking around at the confused faces. Kurama cleared his throat.
"Youko says he remembers it." Kurama said. His eyes turned gold and his voice got a smooth tone to it. Kurama looked around the room, his eyes stilled on Kagome. "Hello Lady Kagome. If you don't mind me saying you look even more beautiful up close." He said smoothly as he kissed Kagome's hand. Yusuke growled and tried to get up but Keiko grabbed the back of the couch so that he couldn't push her off.
"Get your perverted hand off of her you perverted fox!" Yusuke yelled, trying to grab Kurama's neck. Youko let go of Kagome's hand and winked at her, causing her to blush like a tomato. Kurama looked toward Koenma.
"This prophecy took place long ago, when demons roamed the land freely with humans. Demons, thinking themselves higher than humans, rained terror upon the land. The humans, too weak to defeat all the demons beseeched the gods for their help. The gods, hearing the people's cries for help, put a new race of creature on the land, called the Phoenix. This new race were stronger than demons but had the emotions and compassion of the humans. They were rumored to be element users, being able to control one or more elements." He explained for the confused faces around the room.
"The new race protected the humans from the demons, and the humans mistook this new race as angels sent from the gods, because that is the form they took. It was said that these people had wings and they glowed, giving them an angelic type look. As you could imagine the others demons, jealous of the Phoenix's beauty, strength, and angry with them for protecting the humans, they increased their attacks on the humans. They also ganged up on and killed any Phoenix they found alone. The gods, seeing that the demons weren't going to give up any time soon, decided to take drastic measure." Kurama stopped for effect.
"So the gods gave the Phoenix people a prophecy. It stated that four Phoenix beings would arise and create barriers between the humans, demons, and spirits. One would protect the barrier around the demon world so that none could break it, one would protect the barrier around the spirits to protect them and keep them from breaking it, one would protect the barrier around the humans to keep them safe, and the last one would watch over all the other protectors and be there incase one, or all, of the others were too weak to keep the barriers up. The demons, getting wind of the prophecy, bound together and, some how, destroyed the Phoenix people. The way they did though is unknown." The room was thrown into a silence.
"What does this have to do about the mission Koenma?" Boton asked.
"Well obviously they didn't kill them all because the barriers are up and functional." Koenma said and the group nodded their head for Koenma to continue. "Sadly the protectors of the barriers were put into hiding, presumable for their own protection, so we had no idea of whom, or where, the protectors were."
"'had?' Does that mean you know were they are now?" Ryuun asked. Koenma nodded and motioned Meranii forward. She walked to the front of the room.
"Instead of taking the time to explain everything I'm just gunna show you." Meranii said taking the necklace out of her shirt. It was a black bird, with its wings spread out and diamonds for eyes. She muttered something that the others couldn't make out and the necklace started to glow with a white light. Soon the light engulfed Meranii's entire body. The light shifted and then started to dissipate. The first thing they noticed was that Meranii had large, black, angel type wings folded behind her. The next things they noticed was the black claws and sharp fangs that were showing threw Meranii's smirk.
"You…you're…" Boton tried to say. Meranii's smirk widened. She bowed a little.
"I am Meranii." She said in a overly dramatic voice. "Protector of the barriers, you could say."
"You said she was just there to protect the protectors," Yusuke scoffed. "So we should be looking for the protectors not their body guard." Keiko hit him in the head.
"For your information, kid," Meranii started in a cold voice, stressing on the word kid. "I have been protecting the barriers by myself until the right time for the protectors' powers to be awaked. So, if you want to get any rest from fighting demons that "accidentally" slip past the barriers then I suggest that you keep all smart ass comments to yourself." Yusuke shut his mouth and glared at Meranii.
"If I may," Kurama started. "can I ask you to get to the point about all this already?" Meranii nodded and waved her hand at Koenma. He started talking.
"A growing threat in Mankai has been brought to my attention." Koenma began. "There is a demon there that has the power to absorb other creatures to harness their powers. I have heard rumors of him absorbing powerful demons in able to break through the barrier and either conquer these world or to absorb more powerful beings." He said looking around at everyone.
"Why haven't you taken action before this then?" Kagome asked, rocking the sleeping Shippo in her arms. Koenma got a little nervous.
"He seems to absorb everyone that witnesses him in the act so there were no witnesses. But recently when have come across a person that was a survivor and we figure they were talking nonsense but now we have gained confirmation of his existence." The room fell into a thoughtful silence.
"How are we suppose to find him?" Sango asked from the couch. Kagome nodded her head.
"Who said you were going?" Yusuke, Sesshoumaru, and Koenma asked at the same time. Kagome and Sango glared at them.
"I did." Meranii said, causing the guys to glare at her.
"That just gives us more people to protect and more distractions from our work." Yusuke said, earning him a hit from Keiko. Meranii glared at him.
"Kagome and Sango can take care of themselves." Meranii said coldly. "Keiko can protect herself, if you remember what happen just last night. The only one that would need to be protected would be Boton and Yukina." When she finished talking, all the guys were glaring at her, though some less than others.
"Are you suggesting that all of the girls go with us?" Ryuun asked, but you could hear the slight anger in his voice.
"No," Meranii said causing the guys to relax a little. "I'm demanding it." Once again, she was the recipient of all the males' glares.
"Are you insane?" Yusuke yelled. Keiko got off him, afraid of seeing him this mad. Yusuke stood up and got in Meranii's face. "You must be stupid if you think that putting them in the line of danger is a good thing. Tell us how is that going to help at all. Your gunna get one of them kill…" SLAP!
Yusuke went flying backwards and over the back of the couch. Meranii was glaring at him.
"You're the stupid ones." Meranii said in a deadly calm voice glaring at all the guys. "None of you have any idea how Jigoku works." She said glaring stronger. Everyone looked at her shocked. She just knocked Yusuke across the room as if he was a fly! "If they are unprotected for even a second he will use it his advantage."
"Why would he want them?" Kuwabara asked. Meranii sighed.
"You were already told." Meranii said. "He absorbs people to gain their powers."
"So he's after them?" Kuwabara asked pointing to Yukina, Boton, Kagome, Sango, and Keiko. Meranii rolled her eyes and nodded her head.
"What's special about us?" Sango asked. Meranii sighed.
"A lot is special." Meranii said simple. "You have an ice maiden, the grim reaper, and three protectors, so what is there not special about you?" She said, but for some reason she avoided every ones eyes. Everyone in the room gaped at her, besides Sesshoumaru and Koenma.
"What are you saying onna?" Hiei asked coldly. Meranii glared at him.
"It's Meranii and I'm saying that they are all powerful so he's gunna go after them." Meranii said, still not looking at anyone. "Besides, one or more of them are special to a strong person in this room. That makes them even more of a target."
"He didn't mean that." Ryuun said, looking at Meranii with a questioning gaze. "He meant what did you mean by protectors?" Meranii rolled her eyes.
"Do I really have to spell it out for you?" Kuwabara nodded his head. Everyone else just continued to stare at her. Kagome, Sango, and Keiko were all staring in shock/confusion with their mouths hanging open. Meranii sighed. "I guess a demonstration is in order." Meranii took her necklace out again and held it up. She muttered some more words and her necklace lit up again. However, this time, necklaces around Kagome's, Sango's and Keiko's necklaces lit up as well. All four of them were engulfed in the same white light from before. The lights on the three girls changed and slowly started to dissipate. Standing there were three different looking girls. The girls looked around at each other.
"Oh my gods!" The girls screamed at the same time. They started talking to each other a mile a minute. "Looks at you!" "Me? What's different about me?" "A lot." The three managed to say at the same time. Meranii walked up and pushed them apart.
"Don't start that again." Meranii said rubbing her temples. The girls looked confused and Meranii cleared her throat. "Just take a look at yourselves so we can get on with this meeting." She said handing Sango a mirror.
Sango's hair had grown longer to just below her butt and was fuller. It was still black but now there was streaks of deep red randomly around it. Her eyes had went from their dark brown color to a crimson red with specs of silver in them. She had gained fangs and claws. The most noticeable change was the big black wing on her back. She still had on the clothes she was wearing before but now they were tighter since her body had become more filled out in certain places. She had a look of shock on her face as she passed the mirror to Keiko.
Keiko's hair had also grown out to just below her butt and had gained midnight blue streaks. Her eyes went from their usual grey to midnight blue with silver specs. She now had fangs and claws and on her back, also, there was a pair of big black wings. She blushed when she realized how tight her clothes had gotten and handed to mirror to Kagome and tried to cover herself.
Kagome's hair, like the others, had grown down to just below her butt. Her hair gained silver streaks. Her eyes changed from blue to a brighter blue with silver specs in them. She also gained fangs and claws and, like the other two, she had a pair of black wings on her back. Like Keiko, she blushed in embarrassment when she realized her clothes were tight on her.
Everyone, besides a few boys who had just developed a staring problem, I won't say whom, looked toward Meranii. Meranii smirked.
"What?" Meranii asked when they wouldn't stop staring. Ryuun motioned to the girls.
"That's what." Ryuun snapped. Meranii shrugged.
"Congratulations." Meranii said with no enthusiasm. "You are now: Sango, Protector of the barrier of Mankai. Kagome, Protector of the barrier of Ren-kai. And Keiko, Protector of the barrier of Ningenkai." Everyone looked at her as if she was insane. "What? I explained didn't I?"
"There is a way to change back right?" Keiko asked. Meranii nodded and took out her necklace. She muttered a few words and the four were engulfed in the light again. When in cleared they all stood there in their regular forms.
"I'm gunna have to do it till I can train you three." Meranii said. "Speaking of which, I think you should continue Koenma." Koenma nodded.
"Since Jigoku has already absorbed several powerful demons I think it best for you all to get some training in. We have enough power to hold him for at least three months. That's if he doesn't get any more power. " He said.
"Ok. I have two questions." Yusuke said, getting up from behind the couch. "One. If this guy is such a threat then why not get him now. Two, where are we suppose to train. I doubt grandma would train us all."
"For one. He's…being contained…you could say, but with how powerful he's getting we won't be able to hold him for ever." Koenma explained.
"What do you mean contained?" Kurama asked.
"We have him trapped inside a castle in Mankai." Koenma said.
"Well if you have him trapped then how come you didn't know he was absorbing demons. And how did he get the demons to the castle?" Kurama asked again.
"We couldn't see what he was doing because whenever we would send a spy or something like that in there they always got found out and killed." Koenma said sadly. "As for how he got them there…"
"That is why we have to keep the girls under close watch." Meranii said. "He takes the people they are most fond of and basically says come here or they die."
"That's great and all but you didn't answer my second question." Yusuke said impatiently.
"Oh yes." Koenma exclaimed. "You all will be training with…" He stopped and looked around for effect. "Meranii." The room went into silence.
"We leave tomorrow." Meranii said before anyone could answer. "Have a good rest." She got up and walked out of the room. Yusuke came out of his slight stupor.
"WHAT!" Was heard all through the spirit world offices.
-/- Next Morning. Somewhere in a mountain forest.-/-
"Were that hell is this place?" Yusuke exclaimed. The group, consisting of Kagome, Sango, Shippo, Yukina, Keiko, Yusuke, Kurama, Hiei, Kuwabara, Boton, Ryuun, and Sesshoumaru, were all now walking on a forest path looking for Meranii's house.
Earlier today everyone had met at Koenma's office. Sesshoumaru had shown up and stated that he wanted to come along to 'watch over' the girls. Koenma had stated that Boton would be accompanying them so that she could update him on all of all their progress.
"The letter said to take a bus up into the forest and get off at the seventh stop." Keiko said reading the note that Koenma had given them earlier today. "Then to follow the path until we came to a house. That's it." Yusuke's scoffed and folded his arms over his chest.
"Stop throwing a fit Yusuke." Kagome said hitting him on the back of the head lightly.
"You're acting like a child Yusuke." Sango added while smiling. Yusuke turned to glare at them. He opened his mouth to speak.
"Wow! Look at that!" Yukina exclaimed and rushed past the others. Everyone looked in the direction that Yukina motioned and gapped at what they saw.
In front of them there was a big, grey-ish colored, mansion. It was five stories high and box shaped.
"I guess we found it." Ryuun said and walked up to the door. The others walked up stood behind him. Ryuun knocked on the door and everyone waited. There was some shuffling around behind the door and it opened to reveal a young woman. She was in a French maid outfit with a long skirt and she had a duster and everything. She looked them over and gave them a questioning glare.
"What do you want?" She asked coldly. Kurama cleared his throat.
"We're here to see Meranii." He said, the maid nodded and ushered them in.
"So you're the students then." She said mostly to herself. "The mistress is still in her morning work out so I'll go get her. Just stay here." With that she walked away.
"Do they know that's it's one in the afternoon." Yusuke asked Kagome. Kagome looked at him questioningly. "She said morning workout. It's in the afternoon." Kagome shook her head and hit Yusuke on the back of the head.
"You are so stupid sometime." Kagome said shaking her head again and looked around the room they were in. They were standing in an entrance hall type thing. In front of them were two sets of stairs, each curving upwards and there was a glass sliding door in the middle of the two stairs that was too dark to see into. Just then, Meranii walked out of the room on the groups left. She was wearing a pare of sweat pant and a sports bra. Her hair was up in a high ponytail and she had a towel around her neck. She didn't have any shoes on, and her hands and feet were wrapped in a white gaze.
"You're late." Meranii said, handing her towel to the maid and addressing the group.
"We couldn't find your house Meranii." Yukina said. Meranii nodded her head and headed into the room at the groups right.
"Might as well give you all a tour." The group followed her. They went into a long room. The walls were a dark grey, almost black, color, and the carpet was a dark color. There was a glass sliding door leading into a darkened room. "This is the living room." They walked across the entrance hall thing, which had black tiling on the floor and the same dark grey-ish colored walls, and into room on the left.
The room had a long table with about fourteen chair around it. The walls were the same as the other rooms and there was a dark wood on the floor. On the far side there was a set of swinging bar type door. Another glass sliding door led into a darkened room.
"This is the dinning room. Breakfast will be served at exactly six thirty A.M. Lunch at exactly twelve P.M. Dinner at exactly six P.M. I don't care if you eat or not but I expect everyone to be present, and on time, for all three meals." Meranii said as they all walked through the swinging doors. They found themselves in gothic style decorated kitchen. "If you want to use the kitchen go ahead but make sure you clean up after yourself. Lora doesn't like messy people." There was a door that led outside, and one on the right side. "That door leads to the basement." Meranii said pointing to the second door. They walked back into the dinning room.
"What's in there?" Kuwabara asked pointing to the dark glass sliding door. Meranii, not answering him, walked toward the door and gestured for them all to go in.
"I'd stay close to the wall if I were you." Meranii said as she walked away into the darkness. When everyone was in the lights came on to reveal a big pool with the same black tiling that was in the entrance hall around it. There were a couple chairs and a diving board.
"I only have three rules about the use of the pool." Meranii said, catching everyone's attention. "One, you can't kill anyone, two no skinny dipping, and three you are only allowed to use it when we aren't training." The group nodded and followed Meranii out the door that led to the entrance hall.
They went up the stair and came to a balcony type thing over looking the pool and six doors going around it. (A/N: If you want a diagram of what the whole house looks like I got bored and made one so just review me your e-mail address and I'll get it to you ASAP.)
"Here's your rooms." Meranii said. "I hope you don't mind sharing."
"We should be fine." Kagome said with a smile. "There are two bed right?" She asked. Meranii nodded and walked up to the first room on the right.
"Before we continue, I'll get you all your rooms so you can put your things down." Meranii said while taking out a set of keys. She unlocked the door and turned back to the room. "I think it best to do girl to girl and boy to boy pairing so Keiko and Yukina can have this room." She said as she threw a key to each of the girls. Meranii unlocked the second door on the right and gave a key to both Kagome and Sango. "Kagome, Sango, and Shippo can have this room." She walked across the hall and unlocked the second door on the right. "Lets see…" she thought looking at all the group. "Hiei and Kurama can have this one." She handed them each a key. She walked to the first door on the left and unlocked it. "Yusuke and Kuwabara get this one." She handed them a key. She walked to the third doors in the hall and unlocked both. "Since you're the last one, and since you a grim reaper, you get your own room." Meranii said. She smiled when a chorus of 'that's not fair' came from behind Boton.
"Thank you Lady Meranii." Boton said taking the key. "You really didn't need to." Meranii shrugged and turned to Sesshoumaru and Ryuun.
"Ryuun, Lord Sesshoumaru I hope you two have no qualms with sharing a room for a while." She said handing them a key. Both stared distainfully at the keys and neither took them. Meranii put her hand on her hips. "Come on you two. Don't be so stubborn." Sesshoumaru and Ryuun pretended not to hear her. She rolled her eyes and looked up to the ceiling. 'Why me?' She mouth and then looked to Boton. "Can you switch with one
of the stubborn demon lords please?" She asked. Boton nodded happily.
"That's no prob…" Before she could finish Ryuun ran past them and snatched the key to the other room from Boton's hand and went into the room.
"I guess that means your rooming with Sesshoumaru then." Meranii said. Boton nodded and took the key. Sesshoumaru, with no other options, took the other key. They went into their rooms. Meranii went to stand in the door frame of Boton's and Sesshoumaru's room. "Now can I trust you two to stay in your own bed and not do anything unmentionable?" Meranii asked in her usual monotone voice, but there was a hint of humor in it. Boton looked up quickly, her face beet red. Sesshoumaru glared at Meranii playfully. Meranii put her hand up and walked out of the room. "I was just askin."
A couple minutes later the group was reassembled and were heading up a circle stair case to the next floor. When they got there they found themselves in another hallway but this one only had one door in it.
"This is the recreation floor." Meranii said monotone, opening the door. Inside they found a pool table, a playing table, a huge T.V, with every game system under the sun under it, a couch, and about four arcade game machines.
"Wow." Kuwabara, Yusuke, and Ryuun said at the same time.
"This room is pretty much sound proof so you don't have to worry about being loud." Meranii said. "You can use it whenever you feel like," She said ushering them out. "and whenever we aren't training."
The group walked back into the hall and up another circle stair case. They came out into a floor that looked like the other one.
"This is the library." Meranii said as she open the door. Inside they found that the walls were covered from ceiling to floor with books. There was a desk, a couch, and a small table in the room also.
"Wow." This time it was Kagome, Sango, and, surprisingly, Kurama that said that. The group walked back out and Meranii started walking toward the down stair case.
"What's up there?" Yukina asked pointing to another stair case the led up. Meranii's blank face turned to a glaring face as she looking around at everyone in the group.
"That floor is off limits." She said glaring everyone in the eyes, to get her point across. "As is the greenhouse in the back yard. None of you are to go into either of them at any time." With that she walked back down stairs to everyone's rooms. "You all can rest and we'll start training tomorrow." With that Meranii headed down stairs.
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