Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Changing Faces ❯ Unclear Messages ( Chapter 2 )

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“text” - talking

`text' - thinking

text - telepathic communication

 

 

Changing Faces

 

Chapter 2 - Unclear Messages

 

:Kurama POV:

 

Raevyn seems to draw into herself a bit as she finishes her meal.

 

`She looks… worried? Odd.' Kurama thinks.

 

“Just scrape off whatever's left on your plates into the garbage and leave them in the sink. I'll clean everything later.” Raevyn says standing and walking into the kitchen. “By the way, tasty eats, Shuiichi.”

 

Raevyn disappears around the corner to her room muttering something about cards. I might be smart but I have no clue what she's talking about. What do cards have to do with anything?

 

“Something tells me she isn't talking about regular old playing cards.” Yusuke muses out loud. “Any ideas?”

 

“Your guess is as good as mine.” I answer him.

 

“Maybe she was talking about Tarot cards?” Kuwabara offered.

 

Normally Kuwabara wouldn't offer any suggestions and the fact that he just supplied a very plausible one is surprising.

 

“Brain on overdrive today?” Yusuke jokes.

 

“Shut it, Urameshi!” He retaliates.

 

“Hey, Hiei! Why don't you take a look-see into her room?” Yusuke said.

 

“Hn. It's warded tenfold what the rest of the house is. The only room warded more is the one in basement.” Hiei replied, pinching the bridge of his nose in a futile attempt to head off a migraine.

 

“We'll just have to wonder on our own then. Or risk asking.” I say.

 

Yusuke and Kuwabara pale slightly.

 

“The way she acted about the room downstairs makes me believe she'll gut me for even hinting at asking.” Yusuke croaked.

 

“What he said.” Kuwabara agreed.

 

Without too much more talk everyone finishes their dinner, Yusuke and Kuwabara get into a squabble over the last of the food. Hiei settles it by taking the food while they're fighting and eats it. Both look thoroughly, shut up after that. We take our dishes to the sink and leave them. I would have stayed to clean them but Koenma decided to call and being as far away from Raevyn's room as possible seemed best.

 

“What do you want diaper boy?” Yusuke sighed.

 

“Just checking in. Find out anything new?” Koenma asks.

 

“Zip. Anything for us?” Kuwabara answers.

 

“Unfortunately, nothing. I've been trying to find out what her father and brother are in jail for but so far no such luck. Normally when people get thrown in a maximum security prison there in an article in a newspaper, but I haven't found anything.” Koenma ranted, furiously chewing on his pacifier. A thought dawned on him, “Hm. There were large blank patches in all the newspapers I checked. Maybe someone is working against me and hiding the information.”

 

“It is a possibility. I could even be Raevyn herself. I don't know much about a witch's powers but she could be trying to hide whatever happened.” I reasoned.

 

“But then that raises the question of why?” Koenma huffed.

 

“It seems we have to do some actual detective work this time.” Yusuke sighed, again.

 

“I'll contact you tomorrow night. Try to find out something.” Koenma said closing the connection.

 

Yusuke put the communicator back in his pocket and lay back on his bed. He sighed dramatically and got back up slouching over to his back pack.

 

“We have homework to do.” He grumbled.

 

“Aw man! Do we have to do it?” Kuwabara whined.

 

“Yes.” I answer simply.

 

A chorus of death threats and curses flowed from Yusuke and Kuwabara. Hiei rolled his eyes and jumped up to his loft. This is going to be a long night…

 

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:Raevyn POV:

 

I don't understand why I feel like something is out of place but I do. And it is really starting to get to me. I light some incense to calm my nerves and pull out my Tarot deck. It's a little battered and worn but that only makes them all the more special and their magic more potent and accurate.

 

Normally when I'm feeling out-of-whack I'll use a Celtic cross pattern to divine my answers but there was a nagging in the back of my mind that told me to use a simple three card spread.

 

I cut the deck into three piles with my left hand thinking about my immediate future and restacked them. Pulling the first card and laying it face up on the floor in front of me. The Tower stared back, forlorn and broken. This position represents past events, but the card represented unforeseen catastrophe. `An understatement if I ever heard one.'

 

The second position represents the present. I pulled the next card from the top of the deck and laid it face up next to the other. This one was The High Priestess. This card represents the unrevealed truth. Meaning the secrets I keep inside, the pain and every other emotion that could shatter my tiny semblance of living a normal life again.

 

I tear my gaze from the second card with reluctance. The nagging feeling once again assaulting my brain giving me the feeling that the card meant there were more secrets then just mine in this house.

 

I pull the third card and my breath hitches. Death. I just pulled the Death card. It doesn't literally mean death, most of the time, but in extreme cases it can. The last position represents the future. Death means a transformation, change. `Great. That's all I need. More fucking change.'

 

I sighed and reshuffled the cards. `Let's try this again, shall we?' I repeated the same process with the same results. `Now I should be shocked, but this isn't the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me.'

 

Once again I reshuffled the cards. Same result. `I guess this is set in stone, ne?' There was a knock on my door.

 

“Miss Raevyn? There is a phone call for you.” Shuiichi's voice called through the door.

 

`Wow, I didn't even hear the phone.'

 

“Who is it?” I ask putting away the cards and standing.

 

“They wouldn't say, but they said it was urgent they talked to you.” He replied.

 

I walked out of my room, past Shuiichi and into the kitchen picking up the phone on the counter, noting that all the boys were present.

 

“Speak.” I said into the receiver.

 

“Long time no talk, little sister. I really thought you would have come to visit me and dad at least once. Don't you love us anymore?” Steve spoke, mock hurt in his voice.

 

“Tch! You keep thinking that.” I hissed into the receiver.

 

“Still harboring ill feelings I see. When are you going to let the past be past? Dad and I see now that we made a grave mistake. You aren't as soft as we thought. I guess we just had to kill…”

 

“Don't you fucking say her name you bastard. You merely thinking about her is enough to defile her very spirit.” I spat. “You and Joe are no longer my family. After what you did how can you expect me to ever forgive you? No don't answer that. I don't want to know.”

 

“I guess all you really ever were good for was a good fuck.” He laughed.

 

My eyes widening I took the phone from my ear and started slamming it into the counter top, a steady string of curses flowing from my mouth with every hit. “Stupid… fucking… asshole… son-of-a-bitch…”

 

Halfway through my ranting, the phone was stolen from my hand and placed in its cradle. I stood for a moment staring at my empty hand. Then I turned and strode from the room ignoring the boy's wide-eyed stares. Until…

 

“Baka onna.”

 

I stopped dead in my tracks and whirled around to give Hiei a piece of my mind. Suddenly, I was grabbed around my shoulders by strong hands and pulled away from him.

 

“Let me the fuck go before I make you.” I hissed.

 

“Oi, I'm not the enemy here. I'm just stopping you from hurting him,” Yusuke thought a moment, “or vice versa.”

 

I didn't reply just threw him over my shoulder and retreated back to my room. Slamming the door I blasted a play list off iTunes, currently Freak On A Leash By Korn. (A/N: Don't own.)

 

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:Yusuke POV:

 

After getting my ass handed to me by a girl nearly a foot shorter, granted she's a hanyou like me but she doesn't know that, I wanted some answers out of Hiei.

 

“What the hell is your problem? Didn't you see that she was mad?” I shouted at the pyro.

 

“Hn.” He grunted.

 

“Oh no! That's not good enough buddy! I want an actual answer.”

 

“I wouldn't mind myself. I only heard snatches of the conversation. Obviously you heard all of it.” Kurama added.

 

“The onna was talking to her brother. Apparently he raped her.” Hiei answered sounding extremely bored.

 

Kuwabara, Kurama, and I stare at him for a minute. Completely at a loss as to what would prompt Hiei to call her stupid after that phone conversation.

 

“SO YOU CALL HER STUPID!!” Kuwabara shrieks.

 

“It was her own fault. She should have been stronger to protect herself.” Hiei answered coldly.

 

“So we can put you in the same situation with the koorime? You weren't strong enough to make them leave you alone to live with your mother.” I seethed. `Wow. That has to be the stupidest thing I ever said. Too late now, finish the thought.' “And the sad part being you know you're a demon.”

 

Hiei looked at me with murder in his eyes. “You had better watch yourself, detective. You're walking on fragile ground.”

 

“Yeah, whatever, Hiei. That was one of the stupidest things you could have said! We're supposed to be gaining her trust! Not making her mad at us.” I shouted heatedly.

 

Kurama and Kuwabara looked at me weird but I just stormed past to our room.

 

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:Kuwabara POV:

 

I had never seen Yusuke so passionate about anything that didn't concern Keiko. The look in his eye was almost the same but had a brotherly quality to it. And he was never this rational unless something was really bothering him about a situation.

 

Kurama and I stare surprised at his outburst as he stomps off to our room.

 

“Nice going, shrimp. You made two very dangerous people mad in the space of a minute. Must be a new record.” I jibe.

 

“Hn. Quiet ningen. I'm not in the mood to deal with your stupidity.” Hiei snapped and flitted from view out the open window. Dark clouds heavy with rain were beginning to gather in the distance.

 

“Good. He'll be getting wet. He should be uncomfortable right now.” I mumble before heading off to out room as well.

 

I turn to see Kurama staring out the window.

 

“You OK Kurama?”

 

“Yes. Just thinking.” He says and follows.

 

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:Raevyn POV:

 

Hidden by the loud music emitting from my stereo system I screamed for a good five minutes into my pillow. My way of relieving anger without smashing something, or in this case someone, to tiny bits.

 

`OK. Anger level back to a controllable point. Must meditate.'

 

I pulled out a cushion and some incense from under my bed and placed them on the floor. I light the incense and sit cross-legged on the cushion, back straight, resting the back of my hands on my knees with my index finger and thumb lightly touching.

 

I slowly empty my mind of any and all thoughts. Letting a state of complete nothingness envelope me, my mind floating in a void. My breathing evens to a deep steady rhythm, inhale for a count of seven, hold for four, exhale for seven, hold for four, and so on. I'm so deeply into my meditations that even the growing storm outside couldn't wake me.

 

Then I saw things I've never seen in a meditation before. Creatures that had human features and animalistic ones. Horns, fangs, fox ears, dog ears, cat ears, wings and claws. But then things got weirder. Creatures that looked nothing even remotely humanoid. Great beasts with eyes covering their bodies or long reptilian tales covered in spikes or horns, snouts and muzzles instead of a nose and mouth, and so much more.

 

Then I started to see landscapes unknown to this earth. Mountains thousands of feet higher than the Himalayans, volcanoes that constantly erupted, seas vaster than the Pacific ocean. A rainforest with unmatched beauty at one moment then a bloody body riddled battle field with more creatures feeding off the dead or dying.

 

My breathing started to get faster and the storm outside picking up strength. One of the creatures jerked its head up and stared straight at me, then rushed at me faster than a lightning bolt.

 

I jerked out of meditation just a particularly wicked lightning bolt streaked across the sky followed almost immediately by a humongous crack of thunder shaking the very foundation of the house. The storm seems to punctuate the word whispering across my mind. The only thing I can think of.

 

`Makai.'

 

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Well there is chapter 2. And I am ashamed about how short it is. But the next chap is going to be super long so I'm making up for it. Any questions just ask! Please R and R!