Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ A Life Broken & Incomplete ❯ Secluded With Attitude ( Chapter 1 )

"I'm sick of being the Deity Of Death." Botan grumbled as her and Kurama walked down the block casually.

"Well, it *is* part of your job." Kurama answered with his hands in his pockets. "Don't worry about it."

"Easy for you to say." She mumbled under her breath. Suddenly, Kurama and Botan fell to the ground as a female came flying at them, her back lying between their two bodies. The youkai advanced on the girl with an evil grin on its face. It's hand stretched out as a blue glowing light began to form in the palm of its hand. The female glared at the demon with angry white eyes. Her eyes lost their pure gold color and went pure white in anger. With a swift thrust, the demon fired the blue ball at the woman, striking her as Botan and Kurama rolled away just in time. The woman screamed in pain as she lost most of her strength, breathing hard. Her heart clenched as she struggled to breathe. She began to cough hard as she tried desperately to fight the haze that had hit her. Soon, she started coughing up blood. Pushing the pain to the side, she looked up and glared at the monster in front of her. Another blue ball was forming in its palm, rather quickly. Immediately, she jumped to her feet and whipped out her bo. As the blue haze came flying at her, she shoved the point of her bo into it, halting it in front of her. The demon, perplexed, just starred at her. The ninja cocked her head to the side and put a grin on her face. She twisted the bo in a circle as she spun around and swatted at the floating blue ball, which sent it soaring back at the youkai. The monster roared in pain as the blue haze slowly killed it, inflicting a tortuous heart-stopping tremor into him. The young fighter fell to her knees and breathed hard before she passed out.

Botan was the first to rush up to her. "She's still alive, but awfully weak."

Kurama then took the time to study the girl. She had *very* long raven-black hair that was all messed up due to the clumps of dried blood in her tangled hair. Her loose black pants had huge holes in them and her tight black tank top was now a holy tube top. Her whole body was covered in blood.

"We have to get her out of here." he answered as he picked her up and they hurried away before anybody could see them.

*~~~~* At The House *~~~~*

"Where are they? They should have been back by now!" Yukina exclaimed.

"Chill out. Sit down. And shut up." Yusuke commanded tiredly. Yukina glared at him before she sat own next to Hiei on the couch. Just then, Kurama burst through the door with Botan behind him.

"What the hell?" Yusuke spat when he saw Kurama carrying an unconscious girl in his arms.

"Shut up and get the bath running." Kurama demanded as he walked to the bathroom.

"Already ahead of ya." Botan called as she ran to the room Kurama was heading too.

"Who is going to clean her up?" Hiei questioned impassively as he continued to watch the TV. There was silence.

"Leave it to Hiei to bring up a question that makes suggestions." Kuwabara grumbled.

"I will." Keiko offered finally.

Yusuke looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "You will?"

"Somebody has to do it and since you males aren't man enough, I guess I have to." Keiko replied.

"I'll help you." Botan added.

"Me too." Yukina chimed in. When Kurama came out of the bathroom, the 3 girls went in and closed the door behind them.

"Ya know, I've always wondered why girls went to the bathroom in groups." Kurama spoke as he sat down next to Hiei on the couch. The guys snickered at Kurama's statement as they sat around the room and waited.

*~~~~* 4 And ½ Hours Later *~~~~*

The girl groaned as her head moved to the side, hitting a soft and fluffy pillow. Her *very* long black hair was neatly braided and lying over her shoulder. The warm, soft quilt was pulled up to her chest with her arms resting on top of it. The room she was in was very plain in color. It was a light gray with pictures hanging on the walls. Bunches of shelves were directly across from the bed with books and other things on it. She looked down at herself and nearly fainted again. She was wearing gray shorts that were too big for her and a huge navy blue shirt. Next, she realized her hair was braided and smelt like fresh oranges.

Her head shot towards the door as she heard it creak open. There she saw a guy with black hair and a black bandana.

"She's awake." She heard him call. Next, she heard all sorts of noises as people crowded behind the one guy, knocking him into the room. "Watch it you morons!" he snapped. Not a very friendly person, is he? The girl thought with a raised eyebrow.

"Are you alright?" Botan asked immediately.

"Why would you want to know?" the girl snapped. Botan was taken aback. Hiei raised an eyebrow at the girl's answer. Most people were grateful when somebody saved them, but not her. It was as if she relied on only herself to survive…like him.

"You don't have to get snippy." Botan grumbled.

"Well when you wake up in a strange place with about 5 people staring at you, you'd be defensive also!"

What's your name?" Kurama asked causally.

The girl eyed him very closely. "Gonna kill me if I tell you?"

"Why would we do that?" Yusuke replied.

"Because I'm very well known. A lot of people want me dead." The girl countered with a smirk.

"Not us." Keiko added gently.

The girl looked at Keiko and saw truth and innocence in her eyes. She sighed. "My name is Hari Shinkan. I'm a demon hunting ninja." She saw Kurama and Hiei exchange glances. "Don't worry. I'm not after you both…yet."

"That's reassuring." Hiei grumbled. Hari leapt from the bed and flipped behind Hiei. She took out a well-concealed bo and held it against his neck as Hiei held his head up. His eyes turned evil as he looked around at everybody.

"Would it make you feel better if I killed you now?" she whispered in his ear.

"Drop dead." Hiei growled.

"Whatever." Hari shrugged as she gave a quick upward jab to Hiei's throat. The force of the blow caused Hiei to start choking.

"What'd you do?! He's going to die!" Yukina shrieked.

"Relax worrywart. He's fine." Hari sighed. "If he's a demon, a blow like that shouldn't kill him." Hiei coughed as he held his throat. "See? He's obviously not dead."

"Are you insensitive or just a bitch?" Botan snapped, loosing her temper with the ninja.

Hari looked at Botan unfazed. "Are you always this childish?" she countered. "Now if you don't mind, I'd like to leave. Thanks for your hospitality."

She walked around Hiei and Yukina, but stopped as Kurama stepped in her way. "Onegai…stay."

Hari raised an eyebrow at the red-haired demon. "And why would I want to stay?"

"Because you're not ready to go yet." Kurama insisted.

"And how do you know that?"

Kurama pointed to her stomach. She had begun to bleed again. "You're not healed."

Hari growled angrily. "Fine."

"Good." Kurama smiled.

Suddenly Hari took her bo and swung it straight at Kurama's head, hitting the side of it and knocking him to the floor. Immediately she leapt over him and bolted for the door. Hiei and Yusuke were on her in an instant. Yusuke blocked the door as Hiei came up behind her.

"We can't let you leave until you're healed." Yusuke said sternly.

"Oh really? Are you gonna stop me like your pal did?" Hari shot back coldly.

Hiei managed to snatch her bo from her while taking out his kaitou. He held both weapons skillfully in both hands as he waited for Hari's attack. He saw the look of worry flash past her face, but then realized she was grinning.

"I'd love to stay and play boys, but I gotta…scat." She said slyly. "Ja ne!" With that, she approached the window and kicked it, shattering the glass everywhere. Next, she stepped into the window frame and turned her head around. "I'll be back for my bow. Count on it." She smugly spat at Hiei before she catapulted from the frame to an electrical post and gripped it firmly. Hiei and Yusuke ran to the window to see what happened to her. They found her climbing up the post with great ease before she balanced on the top and jumped to a low rooftop. She turned around and waved at the two males before she took off running. At the sound of scuttling, they turned their heads to see Kurama slowly walking in holding his head where Hari had hit him.

"Are you okay?" Hiei asked emotionless.

"I'll be fine." Was Kurama's calm answer.

"Kurama…" Yukina breathed. "You're bleeding." Kurama looked at Yukina with a questioning look. Yukina grabbed his hand and pulled it away, revealing blood on it with his injury bleeding as well. "The way she hit you, I thought she knocked you out."

Kurama coolly answered, "Nah. It takes more than that to render me unconscious."

"I wanna kick her ass!" Botan growled.

"Relax Botan. She's just living her life by how she grew up." Keiko soothed, placing a comforting hand on Botan's shoulder.

"Well she needs to learn manners."

"All I know is we'll be seeing her again." Hiei mumbled more to himself than everybody else.

"How do you know that?" Kuwabara asked curiously.

"Simple." Yusuke began. "She said she'd come back for her bow." Everybody looked at him with perplexed faces until Hiei held up the ninja's bow.

*~~~~* Hari Shinkan *~~~~*

Hari came flying to the ground with her feet pointed and her legs bent at the knees as her hands were stretched up and out a little bit for balance. Her long black braid flew straight up as her body went heading for the ground. Gracefully her feet hit the earth as she went directly into a kneeling position with her hands just above the ground, balancing her out once again. Her pure gold colored eyes looked up at where she had come from. That was a weak fall. She thought lazily as she stood up and brushed off her pants. Next, she silently crept around the building and clung to the side of the brick building. Slowly peering around the edge, she saw the two guys she had escaped from starring out the window looking for her. She smiled to herself as she suppressed a laugh. They definitely need more work. When she saw then disappear from view, she came out from the shadow of the building and looked at the crossroads of the place. Once she had the street names memorized, she looked back at the broken window, memorizing exactly where it was just in case they got it fixed before she returned.

"Now to take care of my wound." Hari whispered as she looked down at her stomach. The blood was seeping through the navy blue shirt she wore as some of it began to stain her gray shorts. Shimatta! She thought as she began to walk casually down the block and into the forest. Upon arrival, she headed deep into the forest until she came to a very big cabin-like building. She climbed up one of her hose posts to the roof of the house and opened a trap door. Quickly, she dropped in and closed the door above her. Immediately she shed the shirt and threw it onto the floor as she went to the closet and grabbed a tight black tank top. As she pulled it on, she wiggled out of the big gray shorts and kicked them towards the spot where the shirt lay. Can't they match clothes better? She thought as she picked out a pair of loose black pants and slipped them on.

"Time to practice." She murmured as she reached out and grasped her weapon belt. Her belt held her shurikens [1], tanto, darts [2], jo [3], neko-te [4], manriki gusari [5], tetsu-bishi [6], and tessen [7]. She only used the belt when practicing. A separate pocket held her recently missing bo. She quickly got on her black fingerless gloves before she went down the stairs to the main floor then continued to the connecting room where she began to practice.

*~~~~* Late At Night *~~~~*

Hari went to her closet once again, her black hair soaking wet and up in a fishbraided ponytail. She shed her towel and quickly put on her shinobi shozoko before she began loading all her weapons into the miscellaneous pockets that were hidden throughout her uniform. In two certain pockets, she stuck some poisons and antidotes in. Some of the poisons were fatal and others had paralyzing effects. When she had everything where she wanted it, she looked up towards the trap door and jumped as high as she could. Once she was on the roof, she headed down the same route to where her bo remained with those people.

*~~~~*

Hiei sat on the couch, Hari's bo lying next to him. His eyes kept scanning the room, looking for any sign of the female ninja from earlier.

"Are you gonna stay up all night?" Yusuke asked rather annoyed as he leaned against the doorframe.

"If she's coming back, I want to be ready for her. I won't let her get away with she did to me." Hiei growled.

"All she did was make you cough. Give it a rest."

"No. Nobody gets away with hurting me."

"She may be more talented than you think. Are you sure you want to try your luck against her?"

Hiei was silent for a moment before he answered, "Positive."

"What are you morons doing up still?" Kurama's voice asked from behind Yusuke.

"Waiting for Hari." Hiei answered flatly.

"Ah. The brilliant ninja who caused me head damage." Kurama replied with a hint of sarcasm. The guys were too busy talking that they never noticed the pair of eyes looking in on them.

Hari silently climbed up the side of the window and continued to peer in. She knew that 3 wouldn't be a problem, but she decided to take too of them out so she only had to deal with one. Skillfully she took two darts out of her hair and placed the dull ends in her mouth. (After she pulled down her face cover.) Then she took out her paralyzing poison, which paralyzed the victim for 12 hours, and dipped 2 darts into it before carefully putting the darts back in her hair covering them from view. She put the poison away before she moved so that she was over the still broken window. She counted to 3 and swung into the room…

All 3 guys immediately looked at the window as they noticed a black figure come into the room, landing on the ground in a kneeling position.

"Hello again boys." The voice greeted cheerfully yet wickedly. "Ready to continue our little game?"

Hiei just glared at her as Kurama and Yusuke stood there casually. Hari knew that Kurama and Yusuke weren't going to do anything unless Hiei was in trouble, so she smiled to herself underneath her cover.

"I have a gift for you guys." She said lowly. Hiei armed himself as Hari reached up into her hair and gracefully slid the darts into her sleeves with the points facing out. With a quick flick of both wrists, the darts flew from her sleeves. One dart hit Kurama in the neck while the other dark his Yusuke in the shoulder. Immediately the 2 males became weak and slid to the floor, unable to hold themselves up.

"What'd you do to them?!" Hiei demanded.

"Chill out hot top. They're just paralyzed for the time being. It'll wear off in about 12 hours." Hari informed.

"12 hours!!!" Yusuke shrieked, getting pissed at the kunoichi.

Hari rolled her eyes. "Oh cool off." She spat. "So, may I have my bo back or do you want me to render you paralyzed as well?"

"Try beating me without your little potions." Hiei snarled.

Hari raised an eyebrow as she smirked. "Okay then. Your funeral."

"Highly unlikely." Snorted Hiei as he removed his black cover and stood before her in his black pants. Hiei jump-kicked towards the ninja with her bo attached to his back. Hari did the splits getting low enough so that Hiei went right past her. She brought her back foot around forcing Hiei to jump to avoid falling to the floor. As Hiei approached her, she grabbed her spiked tessen and opened it before she swung it at him. Hiei stumbled backwards as he winced in pain. Looking down, he saw a slow bleeding cut across his stomach. When he looked back at Hari, she was holding the fan in front of her face, revealing only her eyes.

"You sure you don't want me to use my potions?" she asked. Hiei just made a low growl deep in his throat. "Very well." One of her hands dipped into her pocket to put the tessen away as he other hand went into a different pocket and pulled out some shurikens. Without hesitation, she flung them with deadly precision at Hiei. Each shuriken went whizzing past him as he dodged them. Instantly Hiei took out his kaitou and slashed Hari. Hari pretended like the kaitou didn't touch her, but she knew it sliced her chest pretty badly. Hiei couldn't tell if he had nailed her of not, due to the fact that her uniform didn't change color. She had dyed it red so that if she began to bleed, it wouldn't be noticed. Good thing she did it too.

"I don't have time for this." Hari grumbled as she pulled out a metsubishi [8]. Quickly she tossed it straight into Hiei's face. The metsubishi broke open and blinded Hiei. Hiei hissed in pain as he dropped his sword and tried to get the stuff out of his eyes. Hari wasted no time in taking action. She snatched her bo back and slipped it into its long pocket. Next, she took another dart and dipped it into the antidote for the paralyze poison she had infected Kurama and Yusuke with. She gave it to both of them before heading back to the window.

"I hope there are no hard feelings. I'm just doing what is necessary to get my belongings back. You understand." She said in a rush before she winked and catapulted to the electrical pole as she had done earlier. Except this time, she slid to the ground and waited for the red-haired male and black-haired 'tough guy' to approach the window. When she saw them, she saluted them and ran in the direction of her home. Kurama and Yusuke watched her until she disappeared from view.

"Shimatta!" Hiei mumbled under his breath. "She got away."

Kurama rolled his eyes. "Oh brother." He sighed.

"I thought you were faster than a ninja." Yusuke smirked.

"Be quiet you fool!" Hiei snapped.

"Here we go again." Yusuke chuckled.

"Shut up!" Hiei growled as he finally opened his eyes and stormed away.

"Somebody's got something up his ass." Yusuke bit. Kurama smiled slightly as he looked back out the window. Something wasn't right…he could feel it.

*~~~~* Hari *~~~~*

"Shimatta." Hari cursed as she looked at her stomach. It had gotten worse since she had clobbered Kurama upside the head to escape. "Why won't this damn thing heal?!"

"Hello, Hari." A deep raspy voice spoke up. Hari turned around instantly putting her hands up in front of her in a defensive position. The voice just laughed evilly. "You really think that's going to stop me? You are even more foolish than the others. I should have killed you along with your parents."

Hari's eyes narrowed in anger as she backed up. "Get out of my house." She growled.

"Not until you die." The voice answered before a deep red creature came leaping at her. Hari jumped and whipped out her bo. "Very nice."

"Shut up you pathetic blood clot!" Hari snapped. The demon grew his claws out and began to swipe repeatedly at the ninja. Hair twirled her bo continuously to block the strikes before one of his hits cut her bo in half. Thinking quickly, she jumped up, grasped a beam overhead, swinging herself on top of it, and balanced herself on it.

"You have improved since I last fought you."

"Yeah? Well you'll find I'm full of suprises." She grumbled as she swung down from it and kicked the youkai in the head, which sent him into the wall. Immediately, she jumped for the hole in her roof and leapt to the ground outside before she bolted towards the city.

Damn little wench! The youkai thought before he followed her quickly.

*~~~~* With Our Detectives *~~~~*

Kurama sat by the window still looking out onto the busy streets. Even at night this block was one of the busiest. Car horns honking for no reason as other people swore their heads off. A pathetic sight it is. He thought to himself with amusement.

"What are you doing up?" the gentle voice of Keiko asked.

"I don't know. I just feel something is not right." Kurama answered softly, not moving his gaze from outside.

"Is it about that kunoichi?"

"Hai."

"Kurama, she is long gone. She can take care of herself."

"Maybe. But I don't think that is entirely true."

Keiko was now confused. "What do you mean?"

No sooner had she questioned Kurama, her head jolted to the window at the sound of a scream. Kurama was already looking on in shock. That same ninja they were talking about was pinned to the sidewalk as a red creature with huge spikes coming out of it's whole body laughed evilly. The ninja was in an even worse condition then when Kurama and Botan had found her. Her face was scratched up as her body was bleeding all over.

"Yusuke!" Keiko called loudly. She heard a thud as Hiei appeared next to her in a instant and Yusuke stumbled to the doorframe.

"Nani?! Why'd you yell so loudly?" he whined.

"Kurama, what are you doing?!" Hiei grumbled as he saw Kurama jump out the window. He then saw what Kurama was heading for. "That damn bitch can't stay out of trouble, can she?" he mumbled before he jumped out after Kurama. Yusuke, not knowing what the hell he was doing, followed Hiei.

Hari used all her strength to push the demon off her, but she was unsuccessful. The demon just laughed at her pathetic attempt.

"Get off her!" a stern voice demanded. The red creature scowled as he looked at the 3 males standing not far form him.

"Stay out of this. It has nothing to do with you creeps. This is between me and the kunoichi."

"I can take care of myself! Leave!" Hari commanded.

"Will you swallow your pride and shut up!" Yusuke snapped at the pinned female.

"Bite me!" she spat back.

"With pleasure." The demon cut in before he chomped down on Hari's neck. Hari let out an ear-piercing scream as the Spirit Detectives could see blood start to gush from her neck to the cement sidewalk.

"That's it! I've had enough of you!" Yusuke grumbled. He held his finger out as he collected his spirit energy in it. With a swift 'pull', he let the energy out and fire at the red youkai as he yelled, "Spirit Gun!" The youkai growled in pain as he was slammed against the building behind him. Kurama then came in as he pulled a rose out from behind his neck.

"Rose whip!" he called as the rose transformed into a long green thorny whip. "Rose whiplash!" he called immediately after it was transformed. Numerous slashes were made as Kurama held nothing back. When he landed, he got a glimpse of the youkai falling to pieces with his deep red blood scattering across the place and some of it mixing with the puddle of Hari's blood.

Hair coughed up blood as she rolled over onto her hands. Her breathing, well…it was more like wheezing, hurt her with each breath.

"We have to get her to Botan. Maybe she can heal her." Yusuke said as he picked her up.

"She won't be able to heal her fully." Hiei spoke, his emotionless tone back.

"Hiei's right. We don't know what else that demon did to her." Kurama added in as they quickly approached the door and put her down on the couch.

"Botan, we need your help!" Yusuke called sternly.

"Sheesh. Do you have to be so loud?" Botan complained as she came back into the room. "You want me to heal her? No way!"

"Don't start with me Botan!" Yusuke began. "You're my assistant so you have to do what I say!"

"You are way too full of yourself." Botan hissed as she held out her hand over Hari and forced herself to heal the bad-tempered ninja. When she had finished healing Hari to best she could, Hari gave a weak smile.

"Thank you." She whispered before she closed her eyes and sighed contently. Her breathing cleared up and went steady as she fell into a much needed sleep.

*~~~~* Meanwhile *~~~~*

All the blood outside gathered as the scattered body pieces melded together as well. The red demon took in a sharp breath as he retook his form and glared around trying to find where the female ninja disappeared too. "Damnit. I *will* find you, wench. And you *will* die. I guarantee it." He growled before he disappeared in a flash.

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( According to my info)

Hari = Crystal, Glass

Shinkan = Heart

Kaitou = sharp sword

Tanto = knife/dagger

shinobi shozoko = ninja uniform that showed only the area around her eyes.

Kunoichi = female ninja

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~THE WEAPONS~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

These Are The Actual Names Of The Weapons So Read Carefully

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[1] Shuriken = a throwing star that can be dipped in poison to be made even more deadly.

[2] Darts = Female ninjas usually hid these in their hair so when their opponent was busy they'd take them out and stab the person. The darts were also usually dipped in poison. The darts were used in other weapons as well.

[3] Jo = Is similar to the bo, but shorter in length.

[4] Neko-te = Usually used by female ninjas. They were strong iron fingernails that were fastened to leather bands fitted for the fingers and resembled claws. Were also dipped in poison and were usually aimed at the eyes and face.

[5] Manriki gusari = a chain about 3 feet long that was weighed at both ends. Easily concealed and used as a whip. If hit with one of the weighed ends, devastating damage could be inflicted.

[6] Tetsu-bishi = small weapons similar to the throwing stars, but made so one point is always facing up. Used in order to escape. They would throw them on the ground so their pursuer would step on them and hopefully not continue the pursuit

[7] Tessen = A folding fan. When the tessen was closed, it was used as a club. Some are fitted with sharp blades on the end so they could slice and cut the opponent as well as club them.

[8] Metsubishi = a wrapped ball that has a mixture of pepper and other things to blind the opponent for a short time, long enough to make an escape. It breaks apart on contact with target.