Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ A New Life ❯ I'm WHERE?! ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 2: I'm WHERE?!

 

Jeff slowly comes to and sits up, holding his head while looking around. As he does he only becomes more and more worried. This is definitely not his room. Where is he? Suddenly, the door that leads out of the room slides open and a strange blue-haired girl comes in. She turns around and seems surprised to see him awake, because she jumps a little before smiling nervously and saying “Konichiwa.” while waving at him.

 

He looks at her for a second before hesitantly returning the wave, saying “Uhh….hi.”

 

The girl frowns at him and seems to think for a second saying a bit slowly “Oh, you speak English then, right?”

 

He nods “Yeah, of course I speak English. What else would I speak?”

 

She thinks for a second before saying “Just a sec.” And with that bolts out of the room and slams the door behind her. Jeff blinks and just sits there while he can hear something or other going on in the other room. Lots of screaming from the girl it sounds like and talking from a voice that sounds very familiar. Then he hears the girl say, well, scream it. The name, Hiei. `So' he thinks to himself `that weird little dude's got something to do with this.' He's tired of just lying around, so he gets up and goes over to the door, quietly sliding it open and slipping out.

 

He makes his way down the hall to the living area where he sees the girl, the guy he knows as `Hiei-sama', along with three other guys. One with slicked back black hair and brown eyes that just seem to spell trouble, one with orange hair that seems to have dots for eyes and doesn't look that bright, and one with long red hair and green eyes that speak of a wisdom beyond his years. Everything stops when he walks into the room, every eye riveted to him. He shifts uncomfortably from one foot to the other before saying “Hey, umm….I got bored in there, what're you all talking about?”

 

The girl speaks and for the first time he notices that she has purple eyes. “Well, you see, we weren't expecting you to speak English. Hiei went a little further than we thought he did.” Jeff stares at her for a second before what she just said sinks in.

 

“Wait a minute, what do you mean `you weren't expecting I'd speak English'? You were expecting me? Who are all of you and what the heck do you WANT with me?” he asks, more then a little frustrated at this point.

 

The girl looks at him in disbelief before looking at `Hiei-sama' the same way and saying something to him in some language that he could even begin to understand. `Hiei-sama' replies and the girl looks back to Jeff with sympathy in her eyes “I'm sorry, I didn't know that you didn't know. My name's Botan. We have been expecting you because Hiei there told us that he was going to get you, and he told us about you very briefly before going off. We weren't expecting you to speak English because, well, you're a very long way from home. This house is about a half-hour's drive away from Tokyo.”

 

Jeff takes a few minutes for everything to sink in, every eye watching his reaction. Finally, he looks at Botan and with as much calm as one could expect from a person says “ From WHERE?!” before running up to Hiei and grabbing him by the collar and hiking him up “YOU! You brought me here! Why'd you take me? Did you do anything to my mom or Johnny? I swear, if I find out that you did anything to them I'll…”

 

Hiei interrupts “Calm down, I didn't do anything to your ningen family, they weren't even really you're family, you should let go of them, it's not like it's likely you'll ever see them again.”

 

The words clutch Jeff's stomach but he powers on, asking a single word, nearly growling it out “Why?”

 

Hiei's voice remains as cold and calm as ever “Because they've done their job, poorly, but they've done it. Now you have no more use for them. It's time for you to move on to the next part of your life and leave them behind, the sooner you forget them the less pain they'll cause you.”

 

With that Jeff slams Hiei into the nearby wall, the three boys jumping up in alarm, though he hardly even notices them as he growls out “Take….me…back…now!”

 

Suddenly he isn't holding Hiei anymore and he spins around to see him on the other side of the room, regarding him with the same icy stare “No. Even if I wanted to, I can't. You belong here now, whether you like it or not. If I were to take you back now you would die for sure.”

 

Out of sheer frustration Jeff punches the wall that had held Hiei moments ago, leaving a sizable dent as he once again asks the question that has now taken on so many meanings for him “Why?”

 

Hiei's eyes narrow, before he replies “It doesn't really matter why. It's the truth and that's all you need to know.” With that he disappears, leaving a very confused teenager, a girl that didn't have a clue what to do, and three boys that had no idea what was going on.

 

Suddenly Jeff breaks down and sits in the seat nearby, curling up into the fetal position and just starts crying. The four other occupants look a bit uncomfortable as Botan presumably explains to the boys what just happened. Jeff doesn't hear it though, all he hears is his own pitiable whimpering that mostly was nothing more then gibberish and phrases of “I wanna go home.”

 

Some time later he feels a hand shake his shoulder. He looks up to see Botan with a sympathetic smile and an out-held handkerchief. He uncurls and takes the handkerchief, sniffling a little before drying his eyes and saying “Sorry, I don't usually cry. I think everything just got to me. So, I really can't go back?” Botan sighs and says “I'm afraid not. Hiei was the only one that would've been able to take you back, and he seems bound and determined to keep you here.”

 

Suddenly they hear someone clearing their throat behind them and he looks up to see that it was the black-haired boy, as Botan says “Oh yes, since it seems you're going to be here for a while, you should be introduced to the rest of the gang. The black-haired one is Yusuke, the tall one with orange hair is Kuwabara and the red-haired one is….” She tapers off before looking to the red-haired one in question. He seems to understand and walks up to him, holding out a hand to shake as he says “Kurama.”

 

Jeff takes the hand and nods a hello before saying “Jeff.”

 

The boy he now knows as Yusuke says something to Botan and she nods looking back to Jeff “We'll have to get you a new name since you're going to be living here. Jeff sounds a bit strange on the Japanese tongue. Which also brings up another point, you're going to need a communicator.”

 

Jeff blinks “A communicator? What for?”

 

Botan giggles a little “Well, you want to be able to talk with everyone without lugging me around as your personal translator don't you?”

 

Jeff nods “Yeah, you got a point there, but there's actually something out there that can do that?”

 

Botan nods “Uh-huh. Though someone will have to go get it for you, you won't be able to go where you need to to get it.”

 

Jeff cocks an eyebrow before quickly shaking his head “I'm not even going to ask, I think I've had enough happen to me today to last me a lifetime. Look I'm going to go to bed, can I go and sleep on the bed I woke up in?”

 

Botan turns and he can only guess asks Yusuke the question. Yusuke nods and Jeff nods back “Tell him thanks, I know that letting a complete stranger sleep in his bed can't be real high up on his list of things he likes to do. I'll see you in the morning then, right?” Botan nods and Jeff makes his way to the room, crawling in and flopping down on the bed, falling asleep before his head even hits the pillow.