Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Replaying History In More Than One Way ❯ A Break ( Chapter 11 )

Tbiris: Well I'm finally able to post…

Yusuke: It's about time.

Karasu: She did have quite a bit of homework though Yusuke

Tbiris: *sticks tongue out* yep… High school's hell…

Keiko: You need an education though!

Tbiris: At least I don't skip classes *stares pointedly at Yusuke*

Yusuke: … aren't there any reviews for you to reply to?

Karasu: I do believe there were quite a few that you noted to reply to *mutters to Yusuke* if she buys this you owe me.

Yusuke: *nods*

Tbiris: lets see…. There's Shesshy-Slipperz/S.Wooz, Silver-Shadow-Fox, Shadow Fox777, Sakura-chan79, anonymous person, and that's it…. DAMN IT WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE PEOPLE ON MEDIAMINER?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So Shessy…. Yusuke fired a reigun to clear away the miasma. Kag is…. Unconscious from energy loss and poison that Kurama negated using his immense knowledge of plants.

To Silver-Shadow-Fox there never was a poll, you were just supposed to overwhelm me with suggestions and I wanted to see who wanted what really, and some other crazy things…. It was going to be a Hiei/Kag/Kur but I found out I couldn't write a Hiei/Kag so it's been down (or up) graded to a Kur/Kag fic now. You'll see some of that within…. The next five chaps. ^_^

Shadow Fox777, well, could be worse, you could've missed all the great angst in ch. 20-27 ^_^. I should've listened to that Evanescence CD for so long….

To dear Sakura-chan79 I need to remember to read those, and no. I suck at writing romance and stuff, there's no way it'll turn out good.

Anonymous person, leave a nickname next time please, and to me… paragraphing matters, let this poor authoress have something to fret about besides school.

Keiko: *shuffles away review records* so, start typing.

Chapter 11- A Break

As soon as Yusuke arrived, he was greeted by a blast of energy.

"What the hell was that for Genkai-baba?!" Yusuke yelled.

"To teach you to stay alert Yusuke, I can't have demons sneak up behind your back can you?" She looked past Yusuke after the mini-lesson to look at Kagome, still unconscious in Kuwabara's arms.

"What did you do this time dimwit?" Genkai demanded.

"It wasn't him, we just came back from another tournament and she helped us," Kuwabara replied. Genkai raised a questioning eyebrow.

"And?"

"And what baba?" Yusuke demanded. Genkai cuffed him over the head.

"Why is she unconscious?" she yelled.

"Energy loss," Shizuru replied, lighting a cigarette.

"I thought you were quitting sis!"

"With the stress you cause me?" Shizuru replied. Genkai looked sceptically at Kagome,

"Well, lets not stay out here chatting then." She turned around and went into the temple. They entered the room where the third challenge was held (the room that was REALLY dark, but it isn't now, it's like a living room).

"Put her down now Kuwabara." Kuwabara set Kagome down onto the wood floor gently.

"Explain," Genkai ordered.

"What? The mission, Kagome, the tournament, what do you-" Yusuke was cut off.

"The girl, her abilities and reason of involvement," Genkai replied.

"Okay, okay baba, Kag's a miko-"

"Does she have full control over her powers?" Genkai interrupted again.

"Not really," Kurama replied whilst Yusuke cursed about `complains about ME interrupting!'

"She has some control though. Enough to defend herself and kill at least class A demons," Kurama finished. Hiei decided to commit his two-cents into a more suitable impression of Kagome.

"She doesn't care whether those around her a humans or not. She seems to frighten Yusuke as well."

"Look who's talking! As I recall you were the one to get her angry in the begi-" For the third time, Yusuke was cut off.

"SHUT UP!" Kuwabara smashed into the ground.

"She's awake," he mumbled.

"Oh, sorry Kuwabara-san, I should have worded it differently." Kagome remained fully on the floor; the only sign that she was now awake was her open eyes.

"Where are we?" she asked.

"In Genkai's living room," Kurama replied. Kagome furrowed her brow.

"I'm the dimwit's master." There was a loud `Ouch!' from Yusuke, telling Kagome which dimwit it was between Kuwabara and Yusuke.

Kagome turned her head to look at Genkai in the eye.

"You have a Shikon no Kakera," Kagome stated. Genkai's eyes widened at her statement and drew out a shard from her kimono (since I have no idea what you call whatever it is that Genkai wears…).

"You can see them then, catch!" Genkai tossed the shard to Kagome, who reached up and caught it, purifying it on contact.

"Why are you involved with my idiot of a student?" Genkai asked.

"To help kill Naraku and gather Shikon no Kakera. They're shadowed by my old hunting gang," Kagome explained. Yusuke sat down as Kagome managed to lift herself into a sitting position, pitting them at the same eye level.

"What are they like? Could we meet them, it might help us defeat Naraku the time 'round." Yusuke asked.

Kagome bit her lip, unsure of what information should be told.

"I guess I could. But it's too soon; we can't go there yet. Naraku has a head start."

Yusuke made a face.

"What's the big deal about the jewel? I mean, all the demons want it, so let 'em; we can't bother with them when our mission is to kill Naraku," Yusuke stated. Kagome's eyes could've glowed red in anger.

"Let them?! LET THEM?! The jewel creates destruction wherever it goes! I saw the REMAINS of its destruction in my travels!" Kagome yelled.

"WELL I HAVEN'T!!! WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT IT?" Yusuke yelled back.

"THEN GO TO KOENMA! UNLESS YOU WANT TO WAIT UNTIL HE ATTACKS SOMETHING DEAR TO YOU!" Yusuke opened his mouth for a retort, but couldn't find a suitable one and closed it. At the same time Keiko gasped and Shizuru's cigarette fell from her mouth.

"Che, and if we don't care?" Hiei prodded. Kagome stood up, energy blazing in anger.

"Then we'll all die, once Naraku has enough Shikon no Kakera," she replied coldly. "All that's healed from Sengoku Jidai will be destroyed once again and Naraku will hold the realms in terror and fear."

Genkai nodded solemnly at Kagome's correct and quick answer.

"Hey! Why didn't you stop her from arguing baba-chan? You always stop me!" Genkai sighed.

"She had quite a few good points in her argument. The jewel did cause a large amount of damage, so that it took a few decades to recuperate, and the taijiya clan was completely annihilated. It will only be worse now since only a few of the humans in this era believe the old stories. Do you really need to get a kick in the ass about this? Does it have to take your mother and Keiko's lives so that you give a damn Yusuke?! And for your sister to die by Naraku's hand Hiei?!" Genkai's statement added to the much-feared argument with Kagome that was amplified by Kagome's face, which was grim unlike her usual cheerful self. In addition her energy had increased slightly.

Kuwabara noticed this change.

"Hey! You aren't draining your ki are you?" he demanded. Kagome blinked, trying to think.

"No, I'm not strangely enough." Yukina came into the room with a pot of tea and nine cups.

"Perhaps you're draining ki from someone or something else," she suggested as she sat down. Kagome frowned as she did the same.

"I heard arguing from the kitchen, were you arguing with Yusuke again?" Yukina asked Genkai. Kagome shook her head.

"That was me telling Yusuke how stupid he was being."

"Everyone's against me," Yusuke muttered.

'Where are the Shikon no Kakera miko?' Hiei demanded.

'So you're being polite for once Hiei-dono?'

'Answer the question.'

"So Shizuru, Atsuko and I are in danger now?" Keiko asked fearfully when the silence became too much.

"As are my family, yes," Kagome answered, seizing the change of subject.

'In my pocket.' Yukina looked from Kagome to Keiko and Shizuru.

"Why don't you all come here? If Genkai-sama approves," Yukina suggested.

Genkai looked from face to face before sighing.

"It'll give me something to do."

"My little brother might have concealed powers," Kagome added. The entrance of something that looked like a flying… stuffed animal cut off Genkai's reply. It rammed into Yusuke's head, perching on top of his gelled hair.

"So that's where you got to your little runt."

"PUUUU!"

"Yusuke-san, what is that?" The supposed stuffed animal shrieked in reply.

"Calm down Puu." Keiko reached for Puu and removed him from Yusuke's head, holding Puu in her arms.

Shizuru took another drag on her cigarette.

"Remember how I said Yusuke was a lucky hanyou that got a second chance at life? There was a test involved and Puu's the result. Gave us all a laugh." Decided to be brave like the human that raised him, Puu flew out of Keiko's arms into Kagome's.

"Puu," he purred. (lack of a better adjective….) content with the fact that Kagome's spirit energy wasn't blackened with hatred or other extremely negative feelings, similar to Keiko's energy.

"Have you found him yet Hiei?" Yukina suddenly asked hopefully. Hiei looked down and shook his head.

"We should leave," Kurama suggested. Kagome nodded, handing Puu back to Keiko.

"My family lives at Higurashi Shrine in Tokyo Genkai-san," Kagome stated. "Thank you if you choose to protect them." With these final words the new shard-hunting group left, beginning another long adventure.

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Another chapter done, and at school too ^_^. If anyone know what Kagura's 'Dance of the Dead' is in jap, please let me know.