Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ A Summer full of Wonders ❯ Day 2: Friends, Swords, and a Missing Diary ( Chapter 3 )

Okay and now for chapter 3’s rewrite! I’m on a roll here!!…not really.

Notes: None really besides the story is shonen ai so get over it.

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Italics are mind speech as was decided by Hiei and Kurama in chapter 2...

Day 2: Friends, Swords, and a Missing Diary

Kurama sighed and stretched out in bed. ‘I know it wasn’t a dream…not all of it at least, but I know I pretend it could be right? No it wouldn’t work.’ “Oh well.” I began laughing at myself. “It was worth a try.” I said sitting up and climbing off my bed. I walked over to my desk and removed my diary and pen from within the top drawer. ‘Let’s see. I need to write something I guess.’

Dear Diary:

Things have been going horrible since my last entry…eh half entry. Hiei caught me writing in you, but that’s beside the point. I managed to hide you from him and then went to Yusuke’s party. I ran out with Jin and Touya who I’ve come to realize are really decent people, even if Jin’s antics are a bit off the wall. Hiei followed me back to my house though and I accidentally grabbed his leg after he tried running since I was pushing him too far. I just wanted to know what he was doing, but I’ve ruined everything. I’m such a fool and I feel like dying now, but that won’t help a damned thing. Oh well, I’ll just have to try to fix it I suppose. Koenma’s bound to put us on a mission again soon enough, I’ll deal with it then. I’m sure Jin and Touya will be here soon so that’s all I’m going to write. I should go check my roses and then make some breakfast. This is going to be a very long summer.

Feeling accomplished I stood up closing my diary and placed it back into my desk. Having ranted inside the one thing that wouldn’t ever betray always made me feel a lot better.

“So, ye wrote some more in that book of yers.”

I jerked around to see Jin and Touya both smiling, Jin’s attention focused on the drawer.

“Aren’t you a little bit early?” I asked slightly irritated. I put the key into the drawer and locked it this time to make sure no one touched it.

“Ye know that lock doesn’t really work,” he said eyeing it more closely.

“It does when you don’t have Touya making keys out of ice to penetrate my wards,” I said knowing exactly how they were getting into it. That was okay though, because my real worry was Hiei, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Botan, or Koenma getting a hold of it, not them.

“So ye figured me out did you now?” He asked laughing.

“Yes, but it really wasn’t that hard to figure out in the first place, some of the ice melted once you put the key in. The inside of my drawer had water marks in it,” I said happily since I had managed to see through their ploy.

“So you’re aware I’m going to do it again?” Touya asked tilting his head.

“Very true,” Jin said walking over to the ice demon and putting his arm around his shoulder.

It was my turn to smile nervously and without thinking, I unlocked the drawer and grabbed the diary out of my desk slipping it into my pocket.

“Ye know, you should really stop having nightmares,” the wind demon said tutting me.

I stared at him unsure of what to say.

“How did you know I was having nightmares last night?” I asked uneasily. I hated to think that they had slept in my backyard the entire night instead of just coming back once Hiei had left.

“We slept in that forest not to far from yer house and ahh…these ears don’t miss much and your screaming was no exception Kitsune.”

I could feel myself starting to turn a deep shade of red. I could barely remember any of the nightmares I had, had besides the one of Hiei rejecting me in the field behind my house. The others all just seemed like blurs and to think that I was screaming half the night made me wonder why the neighbors hadn’t called the cops.

‘Glad I wasn’t being murdered,’ I thought annoyed.

Touya and Jin both walked over to me and put their arms around my shoulders.

“Hiei didn’t like what you had to say did he?” Touya asked.

I shook my head; my eyes adverted to the floor.

“Actually…I chickened out and ran away before I could say anything.”

“Ye what?!” Jin screamed staring at me. “How could ye just let him go?! Ye had him right where ye wanted him!”

“I was scared that it might destroy our friendship…not that it matters. I think I managed that already,” I said laughing despite the pain it made me feel. “He can’t possibly want to ever see me again.”

“Ye may have scared him off,” Jin said with an all-knowing nod. “If ye were scared just think of how scared he must have bin…got a lot teh learn Kitsune.”

“I didn’t think about that,” I replied honestly. I hadn’t given any thoughts as to how scared Hiei must have been with my randomly running out on him or worse, when I had grabbed his leg. Everything had just been happening so fast last night that I really didn’t have much time to think things through.

“See what I mean. Ye probably scared the fire demon off and there’s no tellin when he’ll be comin back.

I let out a small groan and hung my head. It was true of course. Hiei was well known for avoiding some problems, particularly when they had to do with relationships of any kind. It had taken me a week to find out the reason he kept showing up at my window every night asking if Koenma had assigned us any missions a few months ago, because he wanted to befriend Yusuke. ‘This is just great,’ I thought. ‘Now I have to fix two things.’

“You know what you need Kurama?” Touya asked me drawing me out of my thoughts. “You need to get away from this place for a little while.”

‘Get away…?” The words echoed in my mind. How could I possibly go anywhere with the possible threat of never seeing Hiei again now rearing its head?

“Jin and me were going to go on a camping trip tomorrow,” he explained, Jin nodding beside him. “You should come with.”

“Yeah! I bet it’d do ye some good Kitsune!”

“I think about it,” I said honestly and smiling at them. They honestly tired me out.

“Great! Now that yer thinkin about it, let’s make some breakfast! I’m starved,” Jin, laughed pointing at himself. “I haven’t eaten a thing since ye gave us that pizza.”

Touya let out a sight and grabbed Jin by the shoulder.

“Don’t be so rude Jin.”

“What?” The wind demon asked innocently. “I’m not bein rude. I’m just sayin let’s make some breakfast. When yer hungry yer hungry.” With that, said Jin pulled Touya and me down the stairs and towards the kitchen. As soon as he opened the kitchen door, however a bunch of popcorn fell on top of him. He closed the door quickly his back to it. “I see ye still haven’t got yer popcorn problem under control,” he said laughing nervously.

I shook my head no.

“I went to sleep last night about three minutes after you two left.”

The two demons looked at each other quietly and then back to me.

“I see…well, I suppose we’ll be going out for breakfast then,” Touya said obviously trying to change the subject.

‘Why do I have the feeling they planned this?’

They both took one of my hands and started dragging me towards the door. And of course, as if by some random burst of insanity I dug my feet into the ground forcing them to stop.

“Wait! What if Hiei comes while we’re gone?!”

I heard them both sigh and I knew it was a stupid thing to worry about. We’d just got done talking about how I’d most likely never see him again since I’d scared him.

“Now look here Kitsune. Yer goin to eat and yer goin to like it,” Jin said shaking a finger at me. They both seemed to think this a decent reason and started pulling me out of my room again.

“At least let me leave a no--” I was cut off by Touya freezing my mouth shut with his magic. I stared at him in shock, but he didn’t seem bothered in the least.

“Calm down Kurama. If I know you, you’ll stop eating until Hiei comes back to talk to you and we all know how long that might take. So, we’re going to make sure you eat.”

I wanted to yell at them that, that wasn’t the case. I hadn’t even given the thought of suicide by starvation or any thoughts of suicide for that matter, but I did want to at least leave Hiei a note. The only thing I could do though was growl at them due to my now frozen mouth.

“Now don’t ye be growlin when we get into the restaurant. Wouldn’t want any stares from the humans, because of ye now would we?” He asked playfully.

‘Me?! Your ears look like horns!! And you have fangs not to mention you’re wearing what could be a Roman Empire toga! And Touya himself doesn’t look that human either!’ I mentally shouted knowing they very well couldn’t hear me. ‘And you’re worried about me growling?!’

“Ahh don’t ye worry Kitsune. I’ll be payin,’ he assured me.

Defeated I stopped struggling knowing that it was useless. They’d caught me and I’d have no choice, but to be dragged off. What good would it do anyway? It wasn’t like Hiei was going to come by my house anyway; it was just a wishful dream. And so I let them drag me down the street and at some point shoving me through the restaurant doors.

“Now that’s a good Kurama. Stay good and we’ll give ye a bone,” Jin said with a grin. I started growling at him again. “I was only joking sheesh.”

Only one thing kept going through my mind at this point, as I knew trying to not draw attention to us was impossible. That one thought of course happened to be what would happen if Hiei came into my room while I was gone. It looked like I had been in a struggle, which I had, but I doubted he’d think of it that way. The first thing that would come to his mind would be that I was kidnapped

‘That’s so stupid,’ I thought laughing to myself or at least as best, I could with the ice over my mouth. ‘Like he’d really care if I were dead or not anymore. That’s if he ever did it in the first place.’ (X)

Hiei knocked on Kurama’s window and waited.

‘Where is that baka Kitsune? He’s usually in his garden by now.’ I let out a sigh and then noticed that the window was in fact still unlocked from last night. ‘That baka. Anything could of came in here and got him while he was asleep.’ I opened the window and jumped into his room to get a look around. ‘That’s weird, Kurama always makes his bed,’ I thought to myself noticing a few of the blankets thrown onto the floor. I looked around some more, my eyes falling on the desk and walked over to it. The drawer Kurama was keeping his book in was empty. “Hn.”

‘Jin and Touya were in here.’ I walked down the stairs following the fresh energy aura trial that’d been left by the fox. The evil yellow stuff was on the floor in front o the door that I had saved Kurama from last night. ‘He isn’t in there is he?’ Not wanting to really climb back into that mess I used my Jagan eye to see if he was but he wasn’t. ‘Thank kami.’ I kept looking around and saw the rug by the door messed up. It looked like someone had been dragged unwillingly out the front door.

‘So Jin and Touya took Kurama that has to be what happened,’ I mentally growled. I ran out of the house as fast as I could following Kurama’s spirit energy. ‘He’s close.’ I followed the trail until I spotted a ningen restaurant, which was clearly giving off his signature. ’So they took him in there.’ Looking around I saw Kurama being shoved into some sort of seat that didn’t move unlike most ningen chairs.

Slowly I walked into the restaurant to avoid looking out of place. I would fight for my fox. ‘He’s not my fox!’ I shook the thought out of my head and walked up to Jin and Touya. They were both laughing, while Kurama on the other hand looked ticked off until he saw me. Fear was the only thing I saw in his eyes once his gaze landed on me. ‘I knew these two were no good.’ “Let him go,” I growled.

The two demons looked at me.

“Ohh it’s you Hiei,” Jin laughed. “Gave us quite a scare you did. We were just going to order some food; would ye like to join us?”

I snorted at his offer wondering if I would have to get serious and use my sword.

“You heard me, let Kurama go.”

The wind demon merely laughed again.

“Let him go? Why would we do that? He’d probably starve if we did.”

I watched angrily as the fear in Kurama’s eye grew. They had no right to do this; it enraged me to even think they’d managed to do this to him in the first place. ‘They must have gotten him while he was asleep in bed.’

“I said let him go!” I threw my cloak to the side unsheathing my sword in one fluid movement. I wasn’t about to let them keep Kurama here against his will.

“Yer serious aren’t yet?” Jin asked.

“Of course I’m serious!” I growled.

The wind demon shrugged and stood up.

“Suit yerself fire demon. If he starves himself to death though its yer own fault.”

I narrowed my eyes letting venom drip into very word I said. These two just obviously weren’t getting the point.

“Never. Never take Kurama against his own free will again,” I warned them.

Jin just kept on laughing though and Touya seemed to be getting to the point of doing the same and backed up a bit.

I looked at Kurama whose eyes couldn’t be any wider.

“Why isn’t Kurama talking?” I demanded.

Jin’s laugh suddenly went to a nervous one and he gulped.

“Touya, remove the ice,” he said quickly. Touya nodded and melted the ice on Kurama’s face at once.

“Hiei!” Kurama screamed grabbing the sword from my hand. “Put this away now!”

I looked at him questioningly as I heard some ningens start screaming. I didn’t understand how my saving him from these two was getting him angered.

“OH MY GOD THAT BOY HAS A SWORD! HE’S GOING TO KILL THOSE OTHER THREE BOYS!!! SOMEBODY CALL THE COPS!!!!”

“Now Hiei please, put it away,” he begged me.

Growling I grabbed my sword and pt it back into its sheath.

“Come on, let’s get out of here.” Kurama grabbed my arm and started running as fast as he could out of the restaurant. I could easily keep up with him, which made me wonder why he wasn’t letting me lead. I could easily out run him.

“SOMEBODY GRAN HIM! HE’S RUNNING AWAY AND HE’S TAKING THOSE THREE BOYS AS HOSTAGES!”

We all made it to a park that happened to be near the restaurant and Kurama dragged us into some sort of bush maze. There were bunches of people following us at this point until we got into the maze. As soon as we did, Kurama turned to face the entrance and used his magic to make the vines close it off.

“I told you!!” Kurama suddenly screamed letting go of my arm and staring down at the other two. “Next time you’ll believe me won’t you?!”

I smirked seeing that the anger was finally being directed at the right people. Hopefully this entire thing would make Kurama forget about these two fools.

“Well who’d have thought that the fire demon would actually attack us in a human restaurant?” Jin whined.

Kurama let out a long sigh.

“I tried to tell you, but you wouldn’t listen,” he snapped at them. “This could have been completely avoided!”

“But Kurama we know you. You had to eat,” Touya said trying to rationalize this kidnapping.

Kurama didn’t seem to know what to do and sat down leaning against one of the bushes.

“Yes, but I also said at least let me leave a note. Hiei can read you know,” he said tiredly.

This of course was only partly true. I had learned a lot of basic human words, but Kurama usually left me notes in the demon language making it for our eyes only.

Touya started walking towards Kurama, but stopped upon hearing my growling. I hadn’t even noticed I was doing it myself, until the other three were all staring at me.

“Hiei, why are you growling?” Kurama asked worriedly. He seemed to think that the ningens had caught up with us, while Touya was smiling brightly at me as if he were reading my thoughts.

“Well yer just a watch dog ready to explode at any moment aren’t yeh fire demon?” Jin asked laughing. I started growling louder this time completely in control of my action, at least until I heard Kurama’s soothing voice from behind me.

“Hiei, is something wrong?”

I turned to look at him the growling instantly stopping. I’d have loved to tell him if anything was wrong, but I didn’t know, myself if there was or not.

“No, forget it,’ I lied. Kurama usually left me alone once I told him to forget it, but Jin and Touya seemed to have other ideas.

“No? Yer actin like yer goin to bite our heads off if we touch the Kitsune and yer sayin everythin is alright?” Jin asked before the two of them fell over laughing. “Yeh really expect us to believe that?” (X)  

Kurama watched in horror as Touya and Jin continued to push their luck with Hiei.

“Yer actin like yer going to bite our heads off if we touch the Kitsune and yer sayin everythin is alright?” They both fell onto the ground laughing at this point. “Yeh really expect us to believe that?”

Hiei was ready to jump on and start beating the crap out of them I could tell, not that I blamed him. These two happened to be the only real friends I had at the moment however and so I quickly stood up and not wanting to repeat my offense from the night before, dropped my hand onto Hiei’s shoulder.

“Come on.” I felt Hiei tense under my touch and mentally cursed myself. ‘He really doesn’t like me touching him. He probably thinks I’ll hold him back again. As if I were some sort of chain keeping him from getting free.’ “Let’s go. I’m sure the cops are gone by now and Hiei. Jin and Touya were just concerned about my health, they weren’t really trying to hurt me,” I tried to explain.

Hiei took a step back and looked me in the eyes.

“Kurama, Touya had your mouth frozen shut and they dragged you out of your house unwillingly.”

Jin whistled loudly. “Ye were right Kitsune. The fire demon does notice things most people don’t notice.

‘Oh how much I’d love to kick you right now Jin.’ I thought gritting my teeth and forcing a smile on my face before turning back to Hiei.

“I hadn’t eaten breakfast so they were going to make me eat. It was a misunderstanding and that’s all Hiei, nothing more, nothing less.” I watched Hiei closely waiting for an answer. If I wasn’t prepared, he might try to kill them anyway. A few moments of silence passed by before he finally spoke.

“Hn, baka Kitsune.”

For the first time since he’d run off I smiled for real at him.

“Good, now that, that’s taken care of, why don’t we all go back to my house and hang out?” I asked cheerfully. “I can make breakfast after I clear up the disaster zone.”

Hiei jumped up onto one of the nearby bushes looking off into the distance, his back to me.

“I have better things to do than “hang out”,’ he said sounding annoyed.

The words hurt, but I wasn’t going to let Hiei know or he might start to suspect something. It wasn’t easy this time though as they reminded me so much of the dream that it took all I had not to walk off sobbing.

“Of course…Go have fun training Hiei.” I watched sadly, as Hiei disappeared from sight and then out of reach of my senses. “So, now what are we going to do?” I asked them holding back my annoyance. I wasn’t mad at them, rather myself. I could have suggested we all go train instead so that Hiei would have stayed with us. I was about to even suggest this when I noticed Jin and Touya were backing away slowly from me.

“Kurama?”

I looked up and saw four police officers coming towards us. They must have entered from the other entrance of the maze.

“Umm.”

“There he is, get him!” The police officers screamed pushing right pass Touya and Jin and to me.

My eyes widened in fear and I began running allowing my magical vines to fade so the entrance would reopen. The second I made it out I had them re close so they wouldn’t be able to catch up as quickly. The action made me relieved, but I kept on running anyway. There was no telling how many of them were actually after me. ‘I have to get home,’ I thought desperately.

“Isn’t this fun? It just makes me ears go all pointed,” Jin said loudly. He and Touya had managed to jump over the maze to me and now all three of us were running.

‘Why did I make friends with these two?!’ I asked myself mentally groaning. They both smiled and Jin grabbed my arm as well as Touya’s and suddenly we were flying up into the air.

“We’ll be at yer house real soon Kitsune.”

I looked down in amazement then. ‘So this is what Jin sees every time he fly’s around here. It’s lovely,’ I thought as he entered some clouds and left everything else behind. I was beginning to understand how Jin could be so carefree.

“It’s a nice view, isn’t it?” Touya asked me, a smile on his own face.

“Yes,” I said in a dreamy tone while nodding. If I were able to fly myself, I would just stay in the clouds forever. Forget the human world or the demon one, or any of the people that inhabited it. The sky was a universe of its own made special for those few who could dwell in it. “It’s quite fast too,” I said as we flew through my window into my house. ‘Hiei must have forgotten to shut it when he’d entered.’

“That it is, now what?” Jin asked after we were all firmly placed back on the ground.

I wasn’t really sure what we were supposed to do now. Instinctively I put my hand to my pocket to grab my diary and froze.

“Oh no…!”

Jin and Touya both looked at me concern clearly etched on their faces.

“What’s wrong Kurama?” Touya finally asked taking a step towards me.

“I LOST MY DIARY!” I screamed panicking.

“You mean that book you wrote all of those things in about you and Hiei?” Jin asked smiling.

“HOW MUCH OF THAT BOOK DID YOU TWO READ?!” I demanded.

“Oh don’t ye worry. We only read all the stuff you wrote in it, nothing more,” Jin said as if that would make it all right.

I on the other hand felt like my legs were going to buckle under me and sat down on my bed trying to calm myself.

“I, I have to get my diary back and fast,” I said slowly. ‘Especially before Hiei finds it.’ I braced myself and managed to get back onto my feet. The two demons nodded at me at that point and took off out my window leaving me behind. ‘I have to get my diary back before anyone else reads it!’ That said I ran down my staircase and out the front door heading back to the restaurant, any thoughts of the police completely gone from my mind. I barely made it halfway down my street though before someone grabbed my arm stopping me.

“Drop something Kurama?” Yusuke asked grinning evilly. He was holding my diary in front of my face tauntingly.

‘I could kiss you right now Yusuke.’ “Thank kami you found that before Hiei did,” I said sighing in relief.

“Oh I don’t know Kurama, Hiei may like read a little bit of what’s in this book,” he laughed flipping through a few of its pages.

“YUSUKE YOU CAN’T!” I begged him once again fearful that my secret was going to be exposed. “IT’D RUIN WHAT LITTLE FRIENDSHIP THERE IS BETWEEN US FOR SURE!” I screamed.

“Calm down Kurama, I’m not going to give it to him, but you’d be surprised--” Yusuke stopped talking, obviously in shock that I was suddenly being handcuffed. “Kurama, what did you do?!”

“I took Hiei’s sword,” I said nervously doing my best to smile.

“And he called the cops on you?!” He asked shocked looking as if his eyes were going to fall out of his head.

“Not exactly,” I sighed shaking my head. “It’s a really long story, just please give me back my diary.” Yusuke nodded and handed me my diary.

“Hey umm…you want me to bail you out or something?” he asked now just as nervous as I was.

I took the book gratefully and nodded.

“Yes Yusuke that would be wonderful. I have a bunch of money stashed in my closet safe. Just bring that and I’ll tell them the combination so you can get it out.”

“Yeah, sure…”

“Come on kid, stop wasting time and move it!” The cop who’d handcuffed me growled and hit me in the back of the head. I forced a smile biting back the curse words I wanted to give him not to mention the plants I’d loved to have eating him at the moment and followed him to his car. (X)  

Kurama sighed lying down on the jail bunk bed.

‘Well…it could be worse I suppose…at the least Shiori won’t find out. As soon as Yusuke gets me out of here tomorrow, that is. And thanks to the cameras in the restaurant there won’t even be a trail as they realized I wasn’t the one who pulled the sword out and I managed to convince them it was plastic and we were doing it for a school project.’ Sighing I turned away from the small window I had been staring out of. “At least I have my diary back,” I said aloud to myself holding it close as a child would a teddy bear. Eventually I fell asleep. (TBC)  

All right, there’s chapter 3, but it’s only 2 days finished out of 30. I don’t know yet how far this frantic is honestly going since I’m in the middle of writing it while rewriting the first 19 chapters. The point is it might go into July, I don’t know. Anyway, here’s this chapter, enjoy.