NOTE: This chapter may seem to get a little redundant (you'll find out in a minute), but the endless stories are just there for reference, and because I don't feel like just saying that the characters just say their stories. Besides, during their stories (or the important parts that I write), I'm adding some important things. So, pay at least some attention.
Oh, and SPOILERS for Yu Yu Hakusho. Get over it. Most fans know the information mentioned, and it's not all that important (information such as Yusuke's demon ancestor and the end of the Sensui saga. If you do not wish to know about this stuff, don't read Yusuke's story… Otherwise, disregard everything that I just typed.)
Chapter: Some things may be better left unsaid.
"Professor, like, what is going on?" Kitty asked Professor Xavier as the mutants arrived in the common room after being called down for an important meeting. All of the other mutants gave the Professor that they, too, would like to know the reason for the meeting.
"Our new students would like to make an announcement, though they haven't told me exactly what it is yet. I suggest we all pay attention. We may learn something new."
Kagome, the first speaker from the group, called everyone to attention before beginning with her story. "As you all may have noticed, our group is different from yours. I will be the first to tell my story, for it is probably the easiest for anyone to relate to. You see, up until my fifteenth birthday, I thought I was a regular girl. My family lived on an ancient shrine, and on my birthday, I fell, well, more like was pulled, down a well on our property.
"While between the worlds, I was in the hands of a decaying centipede demon. She kept on telling me about how I had "it"—though I had no idea what "it" was—and tried to kill me. A bright light shot out from my hand, and one of her arms flew off, though she still had several more left. She disappeared.
"I came out in a different world. The shrine was no longer there. However, one of the trees I knew was there, and when I approached it, I saw this oaf hanging to it by an arrow through his heart," she continued, lightly punching Inuyasha in the arm when the room gasped at his misfortune.
"Anyway, I was taken to the village by some villagers who mistook me for a demon. The village miko—or shrine maiden—thought I resembled her late sister. To make a long story short, the centipede attacked again, and I had to use Inuyasha to defeat her, for he had awoken from his sleep. During the fight, the centipede ripped out a jewel—the Shikon Jewel—from my side, and after the battle, he tried to kill me for the jewel."
After the round of gasps, Kagome continued on and on about how she destroyed the jewel and she glazed over the details of her friends and enemies.
Inuyasha was supposed to be next, but only said that he was a half-demon who had been fooled by Naraku, and had been pinned to the tree for fifty years. He let Kurama go on with his own story.
"As some of you may know, I have two souls. One is Youko, the dormant demon side of me. The other is Suichi, the human side of me. When Youko is in control, for I am Suichi, I act differently. Youko was a legendary thief…"
"Woah, we've let a thief in here? Charles, we must…" Logan tried to interrupt, before he was also cut off before he could finish.
"Logan, we are not here to judge, and I would like to hear the end of the story."
Kurama took the chance to begin again. "One day, Youko made a mistake on one of his heists, and was almost killed by a bounty hunter. Using the last of his energy, he managed to escape to the living world and possess an unborn child. That child turned out to be me, obviously. With growing up with a loving mother, Youko has calmed down quite a bit."
Hiei's story consisted of merely, "My family hated me. They threw me off a cliff as a baby. I was raised by bandits, and became an assassin."
"CHARLES!" Logan yelled.
"Hiei, why did you kill people?" Professor X prodded.
"Hn. I didn't kill people, I killed demons. The higher-ups in Spirit World don't care if you kill a demon, but when humans are involved, they get a little touchy, which is why I'm on probation for one incident that didn't kill anyone, not for the hundreds of events that did kill someone."
"Probation?"
"The Fox and I are on probation for breaking into the most guarded vault in Spirit World for world domination, or in Kurama's case, to save his mother's life. I got probation, and Kurama got probation, and his mother's health. Hn. Some things in life just aren't fair."
"Hiei," came the quiet voice of Yukina, "You said you were thrown off a cliff. That's what they did to my brother, because of law of the Ice Maidens. Are you…"
Yukina was unable to finish before her brother mumbled "Tell her what you wish" and disappeared with his super-speed.
"Yukina, yes, Hiei is your twin brother. He was not allowed to tell you, as payment for his Jagan eye—which he got to keep "an eye" on you at all times."
Yukina left to go find her brother before the rest of the group began to tell their stories as well.
Yusuke began next with his story, telling of how he had been run over by a car, met the Grim Reaper (who was neither grim, nor much of a reaper) and was able to come back to life. He glazed over the stories of catching Hiei and Kurama, and into the story of how they met Yukina. After finishing the high points of the Dark Tournament, he added:
"Then, we met Sensui—crazy guy, really. He was fascinated with demons, and because he had killed so many, he wanted to see where they lived. He had this disease that was going to kill him soon, so he made up this large plot for world domination—with his six other personalities, I must mention—just to get our attention so that he could die in peace in the Demon Realm.
"However, during the plot, he killed me…again…and so this time I wasn't able to come back the way I did the first time. But, a distant ancestor of mine was a Mozuku, a certain kind of half-demon, and he was able to transmit his traits down to me, because I was strong enough. So, long story short, because I know you all are itching to stop hear me go on and on, I am now a half-demon. The demon ancestor that I got the demon blood from was a Demon Lord, so now I technically have claim to a large area of Demon Territory. OK, ummm, Gohan, I choose you(1)!"
Gohan's story was as complicated as Yusuke's, but because he knew how to explain it a little better, it didn't seem so outrageous. That, and he kept certain details to himself (such as the times that the earth was destroyed…he didn't think that the mutants would really want to hear about that…) He started with a quick overview of his childhood, then went into a quick outline of some of the adventures that he had.
The eyes of the mutants grew large as he described some of the events, namely the stories of his father dying, then being revived, then disappearing, then coming back, only to get a disease that in a parallel universe killed him, then dying again. No one had even bothered to ask a question about how it worked, for Gohan had quickly explained the idea of the DragonBalls.
Trunks only described his connection through the time traveling, for the full details of the world in which he had grown up would be too much for the mutants to deal with.
Genkai had kept to herself about her story, declaring, when asked by Logan, that her story was indeed irrelevant to the current mission.
"Now that we have told you our stories, we want to warn you of one thing," Trunks said as he finished up his tale, "We like to keep to ourselves about what we can do…or at least I assume that the others feel that way." He paused for a second as the others nodded, "We have kept these things secret because we don't want others to care more about what we can do than who we really are. Please take that into consideration when you are around us. Treat us no different because of this knowledge."
The next week was, described in two words, living hell. The mutants and Yukina, determined to become stronger, trained for several hours a day, with both Genkai and Logan. The demons, sparred for even more hours, making heavy use of weights to increase strength and speed. Kagome, the only miko, spent most of her time either meditating or practicing with a bow and arrow. The demi-aliens held a few spars in the sky, as well as trained in a portable gravity room that Trunks had received from his mother.
Well, the demi-saiyans trained there at least until the demons found out about it, for then they asked to use it for all of their training.
They knew that the final battle was coming up, and they could not waste a second.
END CHAPTER
(1)—this vaguely reminds me of Pokémon, don't you think?
Please forgive me for the LONG wait, but I have such a busy schedule, as well as the dreaded writer's block. I have had part of this for a while, and now just got around to finish the chapter. I will try to update my other stories soon. Again, forgive me.