Redone Chapter 3

Disclaim I do not own anything or anyone from Yu Yu Hakusho, that honor goes to Yoshihiro Togashi, and Funimation Entertainment. I do however own Cash McKenzie her family and everyone else not from the original show.

With a sudden scream a girl with blue hair and a pink uniform seemed to come running out of the woods that bordered the sidewalk leading to his school and home, with one more scream she tripped over a bush and hit the concrete hard with her rear end.

"Oh my goddess it's on me, get it off, get it off." the young women was wiping frantically at her legs and arms trying to get the invisible creature off herself.

Kurama could only stare on with wide eyes and if he were an anime character he knew there would be a large sweat drop forming at the back of his head. Relaxing his posture he walked up to the girl he knew as Cash the new transfer student that seemed to never use his human name.

"Are you following me?" the red heads usual soft voice seem to hold a slight hint of annoyance and suspicion, reaching his hand out to help the girl off the ground. He may be slightly annoyed but he knew he still had to be a gentleman and help the strange girl up.

"Huh?" she questioned rather impolitely looking at the knees of the tall boy standing in front of her, she really hadn't even seen he was there till he spoke to her, she seemed to finally notice the hand that was trying to help her up. Sliding her small hand into his larger one he lifted her up with complete ease.

After brushing herself off and giving herself a once over to check for any damage 'Well besides a bruised ass I think I'm okay, stupid spider.' Turning around to thank the boy that had been kind enough to help her up off the ground she notice the all to familiar bright red hair of her classmate

"Oh hey Red thanks for the help." She looked up at him with a smile, she hadn't really noticed how much taller then her he was, then again every time she had seen him during the day he had been sitting neatly at his desk.

"Why were you in the woods? You could have gotten yourself very lost if you were not careful." Kurama said with a stern voice. The woods around here could be like a labyrinth if someone didn't know where they were going, and seeing as she was new she couldn't possibly know her way around it. Plus he had killed a hand full of demons that had been hiding out waiting for a meal to come their way.

"Well that's kind of a funny story you see I ran into a few girls from our class on my way out the front gates they had stopped me to talk when one of them ask if I was heading to cram school, and seeing as I had no idea what that even was, I told them that I was on my way home. We started walking together and after I told them where I lived they told me of a convenient little short cut through the woods that would cut my time in half."

Kurama and Cash had started to walk along the sidewalk when he looked over at her, she was looking up at the sky with her hands behind her head and a small smile on her soft pink lips he really hated to tell her she had sadly been tricked he really couldn't believe that some of his classmates would do that to a new student.

"You do know there isn't really a short cut through there." Kurama said while still looking down at the short girl. He had expected her to either look shocked or angry, but when a soft chuckle escaped her he couldn't help but stop walking and just stare at her, she seemed to notice he wasn't walking next her anymore and soon stopped as well and turn to face him.

"Oh yeah I figured that out about five minutes in. I was about to turn around when I walked right in to a huge spider web and this spider that was like a foot long fell right on me and well you know the rest." she finished scratching the back of her head still giggling.

"A foot long?" Kurama questioned while raising one of his thin eyebrows at her. He really hoped she was over exaggerating and hadn't run in to a spider demon, they may be lower level demons but their poison could be deadly if not treated fast enough.

"Okay well maybe it wasn't a foot long, I think it was about this big." looking to her hand he saw her index and middle finger about two inches apart she also seemed to still be smiling then she continued walking." and as for your first question I wasn't following you obviously, I live this way right off Sakura Street, Plus you know I shouldn't even be talking to you Red." she said with a roll of her brown eyes. He really couldn't help but wonder why she shouldn't be speaking with him, had someone told her something bad about him. On second thought that didn't seem very likely.

"Why exactly shouldn't you be speaking with me Cash?" he also noticed a soft clanging noise coming from her but it wasn't coming from the many silver bracelet's she wore. "What is that noise?"

"Oh sorry that's just my tongue ring I have the worst habit of running it across my teeth." she said then proceeded to stick her tongue out at him. Kurama was surprised to notice there was a small bar bell going through her tongue. It was quite interesting he had never seen anyone let alone a girl with something like that, but Yusuke had mentioned something about it before and what it was usually used for. Before he could stop himself he remembered the not so innocent explanation, clearing his throat Kurama tried to shake a away the thought with a small shake of his head.

Cash had heard him clear his throat and when she looked up at him she notice his face had taken on a soft pink tinge, his eyes also seemed to flash an almost gold like color but she just figured it was the sun reflecting off his eyes 'was he just thinking what I think he was thinking' Cash couldn't help but laugh to herself. She really didn't want to embarrass the poor guy so she didn't point out his soft blush.

"Well apparently the Shuichi Minamino fan club didn't like the fact that I was talking to you during lunch, so they proceeded to tell me during gym that I had to fill out an application to be accepted into said fan club, once I submitted my application they would get back to me within a week and only after being accepted would I be allowed to make any contact with the Shuichi Minamino. By the way who in the hell has a fan club, what are a super model or something?" shaking her head and laughing she really couldn't believe some people.

Looking at Shuichi Cash couldn't help but check him out from head to toe sure he was good looking that much was obvious, maybe a bit to feminine for her taste 'I mean shit look at his hair it's better then mine. He also looks like he could really use a vacation or at the very least a good laugh.' She had notice that even though he seemed to smile at everyone that talked to him during the day the smile didn't quite reach his eyes. 'That's another thing his eye though beautiful in color seemed to belong to someone much older that has seen enough violence to last ten life times.' She knew the look well enough her grandfather from her father's side who had served in the military during World War II use to hold that same look in his eyes. 'There's also something else I just can't quite put my finger on'

"You can't possibly be serious. No I'm not a model or anything like that, I've had a fan club for as long as I can remember I'm not really sure how it got started." shocked Kurama couldn't believe what Cash had just told him, he knew the group of girls could be a bit possessive but this was just beyond a simple infatuation.

"I'm as serious as a heart attack, Red. Seeing as those were the same girls that gave me that wonderful tip about the shortcut, I'm starting to think I shouldn't have trusted them. Don't you agree?" laughing Cash gently nudged Kurama in the ribs with her elbow the same ribs that were current bothering him, to see if he agreed which earned her a sharp intake of breath from the young man. Startled Cash stopped immediately at Kurama's side

"Are you okay? I'm so sorry I didn't know you were hurt." Kurama hadn't meant to react to the soft nudge usually he was able to hide any signs of pain from view but for some reason his senses felt almost dulled, chalking it up to exhaustion he looked down and notice the large amount of worry showing in Cash's brown eyes. 'She hardly knows me yet she seems so worried.'

"I'm fine please don't worry, I'm just a bit sore from an accident with some friends." Cash couldn't help but wonder what kind of accident had caused his side to be so sensitive but listening to her rational side for once in her life she decided not to pry.

"Are you really sure your okay Red?" Kurama notice the worry and also a hint of doubt in her voice.

"I assure you I'm fine." suddenly when a car honked at some kids who where walking slowly across the street did Cash notice they had reach Sakura Street, she lived three blocks down on Shinju Lane.

"Well if your sure you're okay I should be going then, I live a few blocks down that way" pointing to their left. Cash looked back up at Kurama is face held the same soft look he seemed to always wear around everyone, but she could still see the slight hint of pain in his eyes. She wondered if he knew just how expressive his eyes really were.

"I'm sure, don't worry. I should be getting home as well I don't want my mother to worry." Kurama really couldn't wait to get home and get some rest.

"Well it was nice walking and talking with you Red, I'll see you tomorrow at school." With that she brought her index and middle finger to her lips and made a kissing sound before flashing him a peace sign with the same two fingers and turned to walk the opposite way as him.

"Yes it was nice walking with you as well." Kurama said smiling at the girl "I'll see you tomorrow and please be careful on your way home." with that Kurama turned and continued on his way home.

The whole way he couldn't help but think just how strange of a girl she was. There were two things that stood out the most to him though, one was the almost aura like feel she held around herself it wasn't like anything he had ever felt it wasn't spirit energy and defiantly not demon energy though, but it held a peaceful and caring feel to it he actually felt like he could let his guard down around her. 'I must be tired I'm starting to sound crazy' The second being she was always smiling even after finding out she had been tricked she seemed to find it funny.

Pushing the thoughts to the back of his mind Kurama opened his front door and sensing no one in the house he walked to his room intending to sleep until his mother, stepfather, and stepbrother made it home.

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Walking up the two steps that lead to her front door Cash noticed a piece of paper taped to the door pulling it off she couldn't help but laugh

Cash take off your dirty shoes

before you walk around the house.

Love Mom

Looking down at her school shoe she just noticed that they were covered in dirt, no doubt from walking in the woods. Pulling her house key out of her backpack she opened the front door and walked in throwing her shoes into the corner by the door she would clean them later she really just wanted to get up to her room and finish her Calculus, and advanced Biology homework both were her weakest subjects she'd be lucky if she passed with B's any lower and she would probably be kicked out of Meioh. Then she could hopefully draw maybe even start a painting before her parents got home.

Leaning through the door to her deep purple bedroom she threw her back pack on her bed before heading across the hall to her bathroom, well technically it was the house bathroom but her parents had one connecting to their room so she had taken a claim to it seeing as there wasn't anyone else in the house. She really wanted to get her contacts off they were starting to itch, grabbing her contact case from the medicine cabinet she set to work on getting the brown colored contacts off. She really hated wearing them but she really didn't have a choice in the matter.

Closing the white case she placed it back in the cabinet before shutting it and coming face to face with her own soft brown eyes, the contacts were a lighter shade of brown but they help when she was having one of her "episodes".

Speaking of which just as she walked through her bedroom door her chest tightened painfully and her whole body began to shake, her brown eyes slowly turned a ghostly white in color. Stumbling over to her desk and sitting roughly in the chair she knocked over a cup full of pens and pencils grabbing a pencil that had fallen on the desk her hand started gliding over the open sketchpad in front of her with ease.

Thirty minutes later Cash's eyes had turned back to their normal brown color and she was left staring down at a finished drawing. Opening the left drawer of her desk she pulled out a bottle of aspirin, she always got the worst headaches after one of her visions she really didn't think she would ever get use to them. After dry swallowing two small blue pills she looked closer at the picture she had just drawn.

She had never seen anything like this before, the whole thing was made up of blacks, whites, and grays and it seemed like there was some sort of battle taking place. Five figures were present four of them males from what she could tell. All of their clothes were torn and hang off in spots, one of the males was crouched over in what she could only guess was pain. One of his arms was wrapped around his midsection the other held what looked to be a whip with spike like objects sticking out along it.

Two of the other males held swords though both objects looked completely different; one was long and smooth well the other seemed to be a sword made of flames. The final male was the only one she had a side view of he had his hands in front of him and his fingers were in the shape of a gun. She couldn't see the faces of any of the males the first three had their backs facing her while all of their heads were completely shadowed over.

She looked to the last figure on the paper and what she saw caused her to drop her sketchpad it was hideous. It stood taller then all four males and had long horns coming from it's skull and it's arms and legs were long and sickeningly thin like it bones were simply covered by leather looking skin, both hands and feet had long claw like nails. What scared her the most though was the wide disturbing smile it held showing a set of razor sharp teeth.

She could almost feel the evil rolling off the paper, whatever this was nothing good could come from it. The thing that scared her most was the fact that all of her visions were either from the past or the future, either way this horrible monster was real or would be real at some point in time.

Closing the sketchpad she decided to wait till her mother got home and see what she thought about it, she was a lot more experienced in these matters. Walking over to her bed she grabbed her backpack pulling out two of her school books 'might as well get this homework done, I have almost an hour and half before mom and dad get home from work.'

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Later that night laying on her bed Cash was texting on her cell phone it may be a sixteen hour difference but a lot of her friends from back in Los Angeles would text her through out the day and night. She was currently talking to her friend Liz who was up late "studying" for a test she had in Calculus that morning.

Her parents had come home over two hours ago both looking a bit tired they had all sat down to eat take out that they had grabbed on their way home, before heading back up to her room. She hadn't shown her mother the picture just yet she thought she would wait till she had some time to relax.

Telling Liz goodnight/morning seeing as it was currently two almost three in the morning back in LA, Cash put her phone on her nightstand before walking over to her desk and ripping the page out of her sketchpad.

Walking into the living room she spotted her dad watching television in his favorite green recliner with his feet up wearing an old t-shirt and a pair of plaid pajama pants his black hair was a bit damp from taking a shower, looking over to the large black leather sofa she saw her mom she had her feet on top of their glass coffee table reading what she assumed was a final draft to a new book.

Her father's family owned their own publishing company that her dad was the sole owner to now that his father had passed away six months ago, his mother never really wanted anything to do with the business and her mom was the head editor there.

Walking over to the leather sofa she plopped down on her back placing her head on her mother lap. The hazel eyed women stared down at her daughter with a soft smile marking her page she closed what would soon be a new mystery book and placed it on the table by her side.

"What's wrong skupa?" Cash always loved when her mother called her sweetheart in Bulgarian it reminded her of her grandmother though it did make her a slightly homesick.

"I didn't want to tell you earlier since you and dad looked pretty tired but I had another vision today." her mother had started running her fingers through her short hair something she had done since Cash was a little girl it always seemed to calm her down an ease her mind.

"Oh Cash please tell me it wasn't during class." LaLa had been terrified this was going to happen she really hated having to go down to Cash's schools and try and explain that her visions were actually slight seizures. Telling them the truth that her daughter as well as herself could see in to the past and future would never go over well, they would think she was simply a crazy person have her admitted into the nearest mental hospital.

"LaLa I'm sure if it happened during school we would have gotten a call." Looking over at her husband she guessed he was right Adon was always the level headed one in their relationship, she really didn't think anything could get a rise out of him Cash had inherited this trait as well. Growing up the way she had LaLa knew you could never be to careful.

"Dad's right mom, don't worry I had it when I got home. The thing is I don't really know how it could be real there's a monster like creature in it plus I can feel the evil coming from it I just don't know if it's from the past or the future." sitting up Cash handed the drawing to her mother, as soon as her mother touched the paper her whole body tensed her daughter hadn't been lying she could easily feel the evil rolling off the picture like an invisible force. Fighting against the force she placed the paper face down flat on top of her left palm while placing her right palm flat on top of the paper, she closed her eyes and evened out her breathing.

Seeing his wife trying to constraint Adon turned off the television while looking over at his daughter she was defiantly their child she had her mothers beautiful looks and had his eyes and ears though her ears currently held around six or so piercing in each ear. Looking to her hair he couldn't help but smile at the range of colors it held, her natural color was the same as his as well a deep rich black, he loved the fact that his daughter would expressed herself through the way she looked she never cared what others though of her strange appearance. That she got from her mother, he stilled remember the day the two of them had met like it was yesterday instead of nineteen years ago. Hearing his wife gasp for breath he snapped out of his thoughts and rushed to her side.

"LaLa are you okay?" Turning her head to face him he noticed a light haze making her normal hazel eyes seem almost gray in color, he really hated when she did this kind of thing.

"Mom are you okay, what did you see?" smiling weakly at her husband LaLa turned to her daughter noticing the worried look she smiled softly at her as well.

"I'm fine, don't worry." Turning the paper over and looking at the picture for the first time which confirmed what she just saw.

"Well I couldn't get too much, there seems to be something almost blocking me, but these four" she said while pointing to the four males "seem to be fighters, protectors from what I got, and this is a demon he seems to be a slave for a much stronger master." looking at her mom Cash had a million questions flying around her head that she doubted her mom could answer, there was one though she hoped she could answer.

"Do you know if it's from the past or future?" she really hope her mom at least knew this.

"The past defiantly but maybe only by a day or two." Cash really thought knowing a time frame would help, sadly it didn't.

"You should put this away somewhere safe skupa, I have a feeling you may need it in the future. I think I'm going to go take a shower and get some rest that really drained me." With that LaLa handed the picture back to Cash before heading to her and her husbands room she kissed her daughter on the forehead while telling her everything would be okay.

Watching her mom disappear up the stairs and down the hall she smiled at her father and headed up to her room as well without another word. Plopping down on her full sized bed she unfold the picture once more and stared at it. 'I know mom has to keep thing from me but how did she say this thing is a demon with so much easy. Hell dad didn't even seem shocked by that...What aren't they telling me?'

With that she folded the picture once more and placed it in to the drawer of the cherry wood nightstand that stood by the side of her bed and tried to clear her head enough to hopefully get some sleep even if it was still kind of early in the evening.

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