StR: Happy New Years! That's all I really have to say…
Y: For once…
StR: You're lucky I love you.
Y: Yeah real lucky.
StR: Any way here's my quote…It's funny! I took it for Ep.105! Do you guys like the quotes I put up for you?
'Not as humiliating as standing on a phonebook while you fight!'
'You're starting to make me miss Kuwabara!"
-Yusuke and Hiei
Chapter 10: See you in court
Rei was brushing her hair, in her room, when the dragon tiger necklace Hiei gave fell out of her shirt. She blushed as the kiss replayed in her head. It had been two days from that night.
'So does this mean he likes me…No he's Hiei. Botan said he shut off all his emotions…then again…NO NO NO! I can't think like that! Why is life so complicated? Why can't I attracted man like crazy instead of crazy men?'
'You're the crazy one,' said Kyoto in her mind.
'What am I to do?'
'Be yourself. He'll run away from you're craziness sooner or later.'
'You're not helping.'
'So then what are you going to do?'
'I think I'm going to act cool. If he likes me he'll tell me.' Rei tucked the necklace back into her shirt and went down stairs only to sweat drop at the scene before her. Ayame was flirting with Yukina, Kuwabara was yelling at him, and Hiei was glaring daggers.
At the time I didn't know why Hiei was glaring. I thought he had a thing for her. For some unknown reason it kind of hurt for me to think that.
"We ice elements need to sick together!" sang Ayame holding Yukina's hands.
"Hey! Only I can hold her hands like that!" yelled Kuwabara.
"We should get together so I can teach you a few tricks," Ayame said slyly. A bright flash blinded Ayame and Kuwabara.
"You shouldn't flirt with other people's girlfriends," said Rei holding a camera up to her face. "Yet another picture to add to my 'Ayame flirts with girls other than his girlfriend' album."
"Rei! It's been so long!" shouted Ayame.
"I know! How've you been buddy?" shouted Rei.
"It's been two days," said Yusuke. Ayame and Rei ran to each other crying with their arms wide open. They hugged each other and cried buckets.
"Hey Rei?" cried Ayame.
"Yeah?" cried Rei.
"Did you're butt grow?" asked Ayame grabbing Rei's butt. Rei stiffened and gained a few tick marks.
"GRRR! YOU DAMN PERVERT!" yelled Rei hitting him so he slammed threw the wall. "What are you doing here anyway?" Ayame stared blankly at Rei for a couple of seconds.
"What I'm I doing here?" pondered Ayame. Everyone sweat dropped and face faulted. "Now I remember! You're going to court!" he said patting Rei on the shoulder.
Rei started to panic. "What? What'd I do this time?" she yelled.
'This time?' everyone but Ayame and Rei thought.
"Um, nothing. You know Shui from Level Sliver, group 5?"
"Shui? Shui…is he that wind element?"
"That's him," he said handing Rei a packed of paper. "You see him and his team were on a mission when Shui hit his teammate and leader Kizu." Rei looked up at him.
"Intentionally?"
"That's what we're trying to figure out. Kizu says it was but Shui says he was trying to hit a demon that was going to act Kizu."
"Why is he going to court for that?" asked Kuwabara.
"The demon was five feet away at the time," said Ayame.
"What does all this have to do with Rei?" asked Yusuke.
"Shui wants her to be his lawyer!" said Ayame. Everyone one stared at him. I mean who's heard of a 16-year-old pyromaniac being a lawyer…who would even want one.
"I only do big cases," said Rei. Everyone was silent. As you can see Spirit Guardians aren't normal. Of course neither is anyone in this story but that's a different story…right back to this story!
"This is an big case! This is his third strike! If he doesn't win this case he won't be able to be a Spirit Guardian anymore! And he'll have to do…community service!" Rei gasps.
"Not community service! Anything but that!"
"What's the big deal?" asked Yusuke.
"We're not talking human community service! We're talking Spirit world community service! You know like the one me, Hiei, and Kurama has!" yelled Rei.
"You have community service?" asked Kurama.
"Yeah."
"What'd you do?" asked Yusuke. Rei glared angrily at him. Yusuke hid behind Kurama. "Forget I asked."
"Oh that reminds me," said Ayame, "I was able to sneak a peek at your rap sheet."
"Yeah. So…"
"It grew," A shadow covered Rei's eyes and little swills appeared around her head. "This may be just me but isn't community service suppose to reduce it not make it grow?"
"I tend to go one step forward and two steps back…I'm not very good at breaking habits," whispered Rei. A waterfall of tears poured out of Rei's eyes. "But I haven't even done anything bad lately!"
"You haven't done anything good ether," said Yusuke. Rei threw her shoe at him.
"Whose side are you on?" yelled Rei. Not waiting for an answer she put her hands on Ayame's shoulders, which was not the easiest because he was taller. "I will take the case! When's the trail?"
"At 3:00," said Ayame.
"What time is it now?"
"10:30." Rei sighed and fell to the ground. She just laid there for a few minutes before Hiei decided to kick her in the shin. "Ow."
"Well she's not dead," Hiei said walking over to the window and sitting at the windowsill. Rei hopped up but soon regretted it when her shin started to throb in pain.
"I hate you Hiei!" she grunted.
"Hn."
"Ayame, I need you to go get Shui and bring him here…oh I also need Yuu with his camera of course, a dart board, a knife, and…pain killers."
"Why?" he asked.
"That's conferential."
"Okay…"
"Lunch time!" yelled Kurama. Yusuke and Kuwabara raced to the kitchen. The girls and Hiei were already there. Rei had her head laying on the table with papers spread around her.
"What's wrong?" asked Yusuke.
"I just found out who the judges are," cried Rei. "This is going to much harder than I thought."
"Who are they?" asked Kuwabara.
"Pyro, who hates me, Kyo, who's pissed at me, Master Roshi, who's disappointed in me, Jackal, and Soeki, who I hate with a burning passion!"
"Isn't Soeki your cousin?" asked Yukina.
"Yeah."
"How can you hate him? He's family."
"Me and my family aren't very close."
"Still…I don't know my brother and I love him with all my heart," said Yukina. Hiei stiffened. Everyone went silent.
My family stayed far away from me. Very far. I understood why…I would want to stay far away from me too.
The silent was soon broken by that pervert Ayame. "Hello everyone!" he shouted. Everyone glared at him and he sweat dropped. "Okay then…I brought the things you needed." A teenage boy with medium spiky gray hair latched himself to Rei's leg.
"Thank you!" he cried.
"Shui you staining my new pants!" yelled Rei. Shui got off and bowed.
"Sorry."
"It's okay. Lets go! We have so much to do so little time," said Rei. "You guys should come to the trail. I can show you my super cool moves!" as she said the last part she did these random karate moves. On one of the moves she accidentally elbowed Yuu in the gut. "Hi." Rei didn't bother moving her elbow.
"Hello," said Yuu.
"Didn't see you there," she said. In a quick move she took her elbow a slammed Yuu's back to the ground. "I couldn't resist." Yuu quickly got back like nothing happened.
"Understandable. Why am I here?"
"I'll explain on the way. Let's go! See you in court!"
It was ten till three when the gang arrived at the court, escorted by Ayame of course. Many people were there and the majority were teens. Rei and Shui were already sitting at their desk. Shui was sweating buckets while Rei was playing games on her cell phone. To the left of them was two more people sitting at the desk reviewing their papers. One of them was a teenager with green hair and brown eyes wrapped in bandages and an older man wearing a suit and glasses. Lets review shall we? Rei- jeans and tee shirt, playing on a cell phone. Older man- suit and review with his client. Which would you rather have? Who was more likely to win?
"All rise. Judges will now enter," said the bailiff. Everyone rose, even Rei who was still playing on her purple cell. Five people came in. Four of them had on white cloaks and on had on a black cloak.
"Hachi vs. Shui. The court will now begin," said the black cloaked one. Two glowing gold eyes was the only thing you could see. The voice was Jackal's. "Mr. Bruno you're up first."
"Thank you. For my first witness I would like to call my client, Hachi Bruno to the stand." The green hair boy went up to the stand.
"Put your right hand on the book. Do you swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth?" asked the bailiff.
"And then some," Hachi said.
"Now son, I mean Mr. Bruno tell us what happen in your own words," said the lawyer, Mr. Bruno.
"Me and my team had been asked to stop a gang of D-class demons from terrorizing a poor city. We told the demons to come quietly but of course they didn't listen. A big fight broke out. Soon after a wind attack hits me. The only one there that could use wind attacks was Shui."
"So you say he hit you on purpose?" questioned Mr. Bruno.
"Yes! The nearest demon to me was five feet away! And then he tries to cover up by telling me he meant to hit the demon!"
"No further questions," said Mr. Bruno taking his seat.
"Rei it's you're turn," said Jackal. Rei got up, still playing on her cell phone, and went over to Hachi.
"Hachi, did you know that wind elements naturally have bad aim?" asked Rei not looking up from her phone.
"Yes, but Shui had good aim for a wind element."
"Do you have proof of this?"
"No, how could I?"
"With the evaluations."
"What evaluations?"
"The one the leaders have to fill out every training day. It's required."
"No it's not. I've never heard of it."
"Did you read all of the Spirit Guardian manual?"
"Um…no."
"That's why. It under section 10, page 599. You write on paper what you did, strengths, weaknesses, etc, etc."
"Objection!" yelled Mr. Bruno, "There's no such thing and even if there is it's not possible for Rei to know this! She never touched the manual!"
"As scary this is for me to say, Rei's right," said Jackal.
"How hell did you know that Rei?" asked on of the black cloaked people.
"Zach told me. It gets me out of training ten minutes early. That's the only reason I remember it." Everyone sighed.
"I knew it was to good to be true," said another cloak figure, who sounded like Kyo.
"Anyway…Hachi are you and Shui friends?" asked Rei.
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"A good leader becomes friends with their team and respects them."
"And a good leader doesn't disappear for three months!"
"So you admit it."
"Admit what?"
"That you're not."
"Not what?"
"A good leader."
"I never said that!"
"You avoided the question."
"So?"
"So do you?"
"Do I what?"
"Like Shui."
"No he's a loser." He slapped him hand over his mouth after realizing what he said. A victory noise came from Rei's phone.
"Oh look I won. No further questions," said Rei walking back to her seat.
"Well that was interesting," said Master Roshi.
"Of course. What'd you except from somebody form my family?" said Soeki.
"Stop bragging. You're family's not that great," said Pyro.
"You two…The evident will now be presented," sighed Jackal.
Two hours later…
"And that's why Shui is guilty," finished Mr. Bruno. He sweat dropped as he looked around the courtroom. Everyone was asleep. Even the judges and his own son were asleep. Jackal jolted up.
"Are you done?" he asked.
"Yes sir."
"Finally…I mean Rei it's your turn…Rei?"
"Well she's out like a light," said Master Roshi. Hiei grabbed Kuwabara's water bottle that he some how had and poured it on Rei. Rei jolted up.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR YOU?" she yelled.
"HURRY UP SO WE CAN LEAVE!" he yelled back.
"YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO POUR WATER ON ME!"
"SHUT UP!"
"YOU SHUT UP!" They glared and growled at each other. Rei's eyes soon changed from mad to confused. "Wait, what?" Hiei stared blankly at her.
"What do you mean what?"
"Hurry what up?"
"It's your turn to show your stupid evidence!"
"What evidence?" Everyone face faulted. Rei took a quick look around and frowned. "Man, it's not a dream. That means two hours of my precious time was wasted on something so useless."
"Useless! I gave a very good report on how your client is guilty!" yelled Mr. Bruno.
"And I'm going to give a very good report on how my client is not guilt and it's only going to take a few minutes!"
"Then do it," said Pyro. Rei handed Pyro a dartboard.
"Hold this. Shui stand up please." Shui stood up and Rei handed him a knife. "Throw it at the dart board. Now you got to hit or you're going to get kicked off the team and have community service. Also if you miss you'll probably kill Pyro…that might not be such a bad thing, but you'll be in much more trouble you are now. Your future is deciding on this throw. No pressure." Shui started to sweat as he aimed for the board. "THROW IT!" Shui squeezed his eyes shut and threw it.
"Ah!" yelled Soeki as he ducked at as the knife flew towards his head. Soeki was at the other end, five feet away from Pyro.
"Now lets take a look at the tape", said Rei pressing play on the in court TV and VCR. The screen showed Shui throwing the same knife at the same dartboard. This time it actually hit the dartboard. Rei turned off the TV. "As you can see by the two demonstrations, when Shui is put under pressure his aim goes wacky. Hachi should have know that being the leader of his group and if he did he should of trained him not to be or at least told someone. That's why he's not guilty. I'm done. See short and sweet."
"Okay, we'll be right back with our decision," said Jackal. The jury got up and went through the door they came out of. Ten minutes later they came back out. "We have decided. Do to the evidence; we say Hachi is guilty for false charges. The punishment is 250 hours of community service. As for Shui, Rei you will give him training in aim under pressure."
"Okay listen up Shui. It's one easy step. Blow everything up, you're bound to hit your enemy," said Rei.
"On second thought, maybe someone else sound do it."
"But who?" asked Kyo. They all thought for a second and everyone except the gang turned their head to Ayame.
"Wha-Wait me? No! I don't wanna-" he stopped when he saw everyone glaring at him. He sighed in defeat. "Fine."
"Praise me, I am great!" yelled Rei as the others and her entered Master Roshi's dojo. A strange wind passed Rei and Hiei. "Uh…what?" They all looked over their shoulders to see a girl with bright red hair and big round glasses looked evilly at four swords she was holding. Hiei and Rei looked at their sides.
"Give me back me sword!" yelled Hiei.
"Such beautiful swords. I must play with them," said the girl.
"Uh, Katana I don't think that's a good idea so give me back my sword," said Rei.
"I will when I'm done!" And as fast as she appeared she was gone.
"Well this will take awhile so lets go get something to eat."
"Now you're speaking are language!" yelled Yusuke and Kuwabara.
"NOT WITHOUT MY SWORD!" yelled Hiei.
"Hiei, when you get it back it will be much better than before. Katana is a blacksmith specializing in sword reconstruction and sword upgrade. Now lets go!"
The gang walked in to a dark ally. Rei knocked on a rusty metal door. Someone opened an eye socket on the door and looked down at the gang. "Sorry you're to old," it said. He closed the eye socket and Rei fumed. Rei started banging on the door.
"Lets us in Hojo!" she yelled. She kicked the door hard and the pain spread throughout her body as she hit the ground. "Ow." Hojo opened the door and laughed. He was a big guy with a shiny head. He had tattoos all over his body and gentle eyes.
"I was joking Rei. You can come in." Hojo grabbed some menus and lead the gang to a table. "You're waiter will be out shortly." The gang stared at awe at the place. It had a dance floor, arcade room, DJ booth, and colored light dancing around the place. The only people here were all teens. It was teen central.
"What is this place?" asked Yusuke.
" 'The Den'. It's a place only teens can come," said Rei. Rei looked over to some waiters who were talking and pointing at her table. Rei's eyes sadden.
"So where's are waiter?" asked Kuwabara.
"Yeah is it always this slow?" asked Yusuke. Hojo came over.
"Looks like I'm going to be your waiter," he said.
"Sorry," said Rei.
"It's okay. So what will you have?"
"Cheeseburger with raman and beer," said Rei. Yusuke perked up.
"Beer? I want beer! I'll have the same as her!" he said.
"I'll have five slices of pepperoni pizza and a coke," said Kuwabara.
"I'll have garden salad with ranch dressing and a water," said Kurama.
"And you, sir?"
"Hn."
"Just give him some ice-cream," said Rei.
"Very good I'll be right back." A few minutes later Hojo came back with the food. Yusuke took a sip of his beer right away and frowned.
"This is Root Beer," he said.
"Yeah, this is a place for 13-19 year olds not 21 year olds," laughed Rei. After finishing their meal Hojo came back over with the bill. "So does anyone have any money?" Rei asked.
"We thought you did," said Kurama.
"Hojo put it on my tab!"
"You filled up you're tab use," glared Hojo.
"He he he. Then put it on Ayame's and/or Ami's tab just in case Ayame's is full to."
"Okay but don't come to me when you're dead." So they left and headed back to the dojo. They headed down the lamp lit street.
"So the freak did come back," said a voice. The boys stopped and turned around to see a punch of punk boys. Rei didn't bother turning around, she simply kept walking until she was surrounded by punks. They all took out a pocketknife. "You should of never came back." They all launched for her only to be stopped by another voice.
"Is there a problem?" asked the voice. They turned around to see Zoe glaring at them.
"No. No problem. Let's go," said the boss as they disappeared.
"Thanks," said Rei. Zoe just nodded and headed back towards the dojo.
"Katana's done," said Zoe with no emotion.
"She reminds me of Hiei," whispered Kuwabara.
"Yeah," agreed Yusuke.
"Hey! Lets race!" said Rei, "Ready! Go!" She raced off with the other's close behind. Hiei passed her with ease.
Hiei ended up winning and Kuwabara came in last.
"You know the saying last on there is a rotten egg and the first one has to eat it!" laughed Rei.
"You're weird," said Hiei.
"You say it like that's a bad thing!"
"In your case it is."
"You hate don't you?" cried Rei.
"Yeah." Rei cried event more. Mina came out and pulled Rei into the living room. She pushed her down on to the couch. A bunch of little kids surrounded her.
"It's are bed time so you get to sing us a bed time song!" said Mina.
"But I don't-" All the little kids put on their puppy dog eyes. "The eyes don't work on me…no…NO…okay, fine." Ayame walked by and Rei pulled him down by her. "You get to help."
"With what?" he asked.
"A dream is a wish," said Mina. All the other kids shouted in agreement.
"Whatever." Said both Rei and Ayame.
"A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're fast asleep
In dreams you will loose your heartache
Whatever you wish for you keep" sang Rei.
"Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling through" sang Ami as she walked by.
"No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing"
"The dream that you wish will come true"
"A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're feeling small
Alone in the night you whisper
Thinking no-one can hear you at all
You wake with the morning sunlight
To find fortune that is smiling on you" sang Zoe
"Don't let your heart be filled with sorrow
For all you know tomorrow
The dream that you wish will come true"
"A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're fast asleep
In dreams you will loose your heartache
Whatever you wish for you keep" sang Ayame.
"To find fortune that is smiling on you," sang two of the little boys.
"Don't let your heart be filled with sorrow
For all you know tomorrow"
"The dream that you wish will come true"
"No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing"
"The dream that you wish will come true" When the song ended all the kids were asleep.
"They're actually asleep," said Rei.
"Scary," said Ayame.
"Well I guess we should go," said Rei.
"Bye." Yusuke called Koenma to open a portal. They stepped through it and landed in the living room.
"Damn Rei you really do have a good voice," said Yusuke.
"I know! Well I'm going to bed."
"Me to," said Kurama.
"Might as well," said Kuwabara.
"Night," said Yusuke.
"Hn," said Hiei heading over to the windowsill.
"Guess he's staying up," said Kurama. Everyone said their good nights and went to bed.
A few hours later Hiei decided to go to bed. As he was opening the door to his room he heard whimpering from Rei's room.
StR: OOOOOHHHHHH! What's gonna happen? I have no idea!
Y: You should probably figure that out.
StR: Yeah…Chapter 11 might not come up for a while due to finals at school. Finals. Hate them with a burning passion!
Y: Then skip like I do.
StR: I want to do good in school.
K: It's well.
StR: Eh?
K: I want to do well in school.
StR: You are doing well in school. This is about me.
K: That's not-
Y: She's not listening.
K: But-
Y: Let it go.
H: Hn.
Y: When you get her.
H: Been here.
StR: HIEI!
H: I still hate you.
StR: Why because of the-
H: Don't.
StR: KISS!
H: GRRR!
StR: Bye everyone! Review please!