Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ At Eachother's Throats and Hearts ❯ Chapter One ( Chapter 1 )

"Why did we have to come to Makai to find her? I really thought most of our missions were to do with spirit world and human world…" Yuske growled. Hiei glared at passerby.

"This is hardly the worst of Makai, not worth complaint, it's got a good few humans in it." The Jaganshi answered. "And Koenma didn't seem to trust her to come to us."

"Why didn't Kurama come, though?" Kuwabara asked as e hugged himself slightly, the entire place's aura making him shiver.

This small strip in Makai, heavily guarded and watched was like a marketplace on the street with small shops at war for more space. The road had no cars but was full of people, some powerful humans, some demons and a few half-demons, Yuske included and many stronger demons. The detectives were after the wolf equivalent of a spirit fox.

Spirit beasts had become increasingly rare in Makai; all but the wolves and some foxes that is, their demonic counterparts squeezing them from home. Most of them now hid out in the more wild areas of the Americas, and in many places in Switzerland.

"Our portal here could only bring so many people, baka. Also, Kurama mentioned having to play Shuuichi especially well today for his mother." Scoffed the vertically challenged fire demon.

"Okay, so all we know is her name, and what her full form looks like, not her human disguise Koenma gave her. Where the hell do we start?" Yuske snarled.

"Hey! A shoe store! Girls like shoes, right guys?" Kuwabara exclaimed. Yuske and Hiei stopped and stared lightly with raised brows. "I have an older sister, okay." Kuwabaka-er-Kuwabara grumbled looking away. Yuske snickered, as Hiei stared at the building with narrowed eyes, his Jagan flashing before he gave a smirk.

"Okay, oaf. You can go ahead and check." The amused-looking fire demon said with a graceful hand motion in the direction of the aforementioned shop. Kuwabara, who was far too thick to see the homicidal glee in the yukai's crimson occuli, slipped into the shop casually. Yuske sighed.

"What doom did you just send him to, Hiei?" He asked in a resigned tone, rubbing his eyes almost tiredly. Hiei simply grinned in a distinctly evil manner, with a `You just wait' look.

There was a pause.

CRACK!

"YEEEAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Yelled the pained voice of the orange-crowned moron.

There was another pause.

Kuwabara hopped out of the shop, clutching his left shin delicately, his eyes wide and pained, as a girl's voice in the background calmly stated `I'll take this pair, please.' The oaf approached Yuske who hid his laughter in a coughing fit as Hiei chuckled darkly, giving him the appearance of one of the munchkins from Wizard of Oz gone horribly wrong, though only Kuwabara's tallness made him look that small.

"Well?" Yuske managed, looking so serious Hiei chuckled again. Kuwabara's mouth opened and closed a few times with some hardly audible squeaking sounds. The tall oaf swallowed, and tried again.

"I…found her." He choked in a slightly higher, more strained version of his IQ lowering voice.

"And?" Yuske inquired. Hiei bit his lip to restrain the Evil Villain Maniacal Laugh (tm) from erupting and likely scaring the crap out of anyone near him, which would be fun, but embarrassing later one.

"I think (gasp) she broke (gasp) my shin!" He whimpered. The door to the small shoe shop opened slowly, the orange haired oaf giving a yelp and leaping behind Yuske. What appeared to be a fifteen, or sixteen-ish young girl in black boot-cut jeans with steel studding, a low-cut black shirt with tight sleeves that reached her wrist but flared out after her elbow, menacing steel-toed boots that went to the base of her knee (with straps, not laces) and a black trench coat with similar sleeves over her right arm, stepped out. Kuwabara whimpered as the girl approached them; tossing strait dark brown hair from her aged and haunting slate-blue eyes, set in a smooth pale face that held a cold emotionless air until she reached them.

She held a small, slim hand, dotted with a few shiny scars, out to Yuske. Her face showing dark resentment, loathing and anger toward the entire situation.

"Tsukami, reporting for sentencing." She spat. Yuske liked her attitude, and shook her hand, releasing it, to see it drop. She had what seemed to be your average walking stick on her back, she removed the harness-like strap that held it there, took the stick and the bag of belongings that had also been on the strap, and tossed the apparatus away. Stuffing her coat in the bag, she raised a brow at the terrified Kuwabara as he glared at her stick.

"Oh, he's one of you, is he?" She asked in mock apology.

"Not for his intelligence you understand." Hiei answered. Tsukami smirked slightly.

What's that?" Kuwabara demanded, pointing accusingly at the stick.

"It's a walking stick, oaf." Hiei spat.

"Actually you'll see what it really does when I fight. I understand fighting on `your side' is part of my sentence." She said. Hiei snorted, and she turned her eyes to him.

"Hiei, I assume." She greeted. The Jaganshi nodded stiffly.

"Alright, new team member-" Tsukami flinched as though this were a terrible insult."- Acquired, let's get outta here." Yuske snapped.

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"So!" The wolf in human's clothing began as they once again reached the human world, which had thoroughly disgusted her. "Where am I staying? Koenma said I would be under constant guard. I assume that means I'll have to stay with at least one of you guys, who'll it be?" Yuske looked uncomfortable.

"How are you with drunks?" He asked almost scathingly at the thought. Of his mother's habits.

"How well do my boots deal with Mr. Baka?" She asked sweetly, motioning to the hopping orange-haired moron. Yuske snorted a laugh despite himself.

"Not anywhere near me!" Kuwabara squeaked.

"I sleep in a tree." Hiei snorted.

"Real high security, there." Tsukami said with much sarcasm.

"How about Kurama?" Kuwabara suggested. No one caught the slight spark in her eyes at the name.

"He just has his `mother' and his step brother goes to some boarding school while his stepfather is almost always away on business." Yuske nodded.

"I can deal with that." She said in the most resigned and somewhat loathing-of-situation voice she could, turning away so no one would see her eyes flashing.

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"Shuuichi! Your friends are coming up the walkway, dear."

"Thank you Okaasan!" Kurama yelled. The former fox leapt from his desk as he looked out the window. They'd brought her here! He had been hoping to avoid contact with the team's `new charge' as long as possible. As he rushed down the steps he figured it out, where else could they keep her? The vulpine slid out the front door as they approached and greeted with his usual smile, ignoring the slight darkening of the girl's eyes.

"Yuske, Hiei, Kuwabara, I see you've brought Tsukami." He called. Once the group had reached the porch he reached out a hand to Tsukami, who recognized his act immediately but decided, unnerving Kurama slightly, to play along. She shook his hand slowly.

"Kurama." She greeted, keeping her face as carefully blank as he did, only Hiei seeming to notice.

"What brings you all here?" The red haired one asked in his light voice.

"Well, You see Kur-" Yuske began, cut off by Shuuichi's mother opening the door with a warm smile of greeting.

"Hello! I'm sorry but it's going to rain soon, I wouldn't want all of my son's friends getting so wet, please, come in." She invited. The group smiled cheerily at her as they entered; though she stopped Tsukami. "I don't believe we've met before, I'm Shuuichi's mother, who might you be?"

Tsukami smiled lightly not at all fazed by the gleaming protective mother look in the woman's eyes.

"I am Ayame, Ayame Ookami, A transfer student from England." She said with a bow, proud of herself for making it all up so fast. "It's very nice to meet you, Mrs. Minamino." The wolf said with enough courtesy to shock a person to learn she was here for destroying an entire human city, people and all.

"Very nice to meet you as well!" Shiori smiled, her protectiveness averted by the girl's manners, as she watched the group move to the kitchen.

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"As I was saying, we don't have any other place for her to stay." Yuske finally answered.

"I should have known." Kurama said with a slight sigh. "Though, Tsukami, do you think you could stand a human school?" The fox asked as casually as he could. Tsukami wrinkled her nose.

"I guess…" She growled. "I suppose the only alternative would be..?" She asked.

"Spending school hours with me. I can vouch for that being astoundingly worse than human school." Hiei spat.

"Guess it's high school ho for me." The wolf snorted.

"We just have to move around the obstacle of my mother." Kurama nodded.

"Well, if it doesn't work out give us a call." Yuske said as he, Hiei and Kuwabara (still hopping) went their separate ways. Kurama watched them go until they were out of earshot. Tsukami stared at something on the ceiling, her eyes calculating he could almost see her formulating her words.

"Shall we, then?" He asked. She nodded.

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A/N: GAH! That was terribly short! Oh well, what's between Kurama and Tsukami, why couldn't I think of a better name? Why am I asking these questions? Who cares? REVIEW FOR ME! Please? Please?