Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Dance of Swords ❯ The New Case ( Chapter 2 )

Catse: Hello people! Here's chapter two of my fic. I hope you like the story. I'll try to upload everything today if I can, but I'm usually too busy to do much more than right the stuff. Oh well, enjoy.

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Disclaimer: I don't own YYH, but dreaming couldn't hurt right?

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The next day, Koenma called everyone into his office.

It seemed somewhat urgent, and so everyone got into wondering what it was he wanted.

When everyone was in the room, the toddler hopped on the desk and sucked on his pacifier intentively.

"I have a specific case, one that is going to take more time than usual." He told them, keeping them in suspense as he always liked to do.

It usually ticked them off too...well...except for Kurama who always seemed to be calm about everything. They had rarely ever seen him truly angry.

"So who do we have to beat up?" Yusuke asked, slouching in one of the chairs before the desk.

He propped his feet up and laid his hands behind the back of his head in a comfortable position.

"There is no one to beat up Yusuke...but there is someone you have to protect instead."

Koenma acknowledged, walking to the other side of the desk.

"Protect? You mean like there's some guy with demons chasing after him or something?"

Kuwabara wondered aloud, inviting everyone to hear his thoughts.

"No. She's a girl. Her name is Sutamina Nohara and she lives at this address." Koenma handed Yusuke a slip of paper.

Everyone crowded around it, looking over the address.

"She lives close to me." Kurama stated, staring at the paper.

"Good. You take the case." Yusuke replied, shoving the paper into Kurama's hands.

"Yusuke!" Koenma began.

"Look Koenma! I beat bad guys, I don't play babysitter for some chick that doesn't know how to defend herself! I'm outta here!" Yusuke marched out of the room, leaving a bewildered group of people behind.

"What's his problem?" Botan asked as she entered the room, looking curious.

"He and Keiko got into a fight, and so he's mad at every girl he sees now." Kuwabara informed with a grin.

Kurama shook his head with a wane smile and Hiei simply glared at Kuwabara for his information.

Koenma jumped from the table and began pacing on the floor.

"This isn't good! I wasn't expecting this! I thought he would take the job no problem!" he mumbled, sucking on his pacifier.

"Why does this Sutamina Nohara need to be protected?" Kurama asked, stuffing the paper in his pocket.

"Well, it has to do with her parents. Her mother was a dancer and her father was a mediator for demons and humans alike. He helped Sensui Shinobu many a time in getting demons back into their world." Koenma informed, jumping back on the desk again. (For those that don't know or haven't seen the newest episodes, Sensui was the former Spirit Detective)

"Interesting." Kurama mumbled, his hand against his chin.

"I agree." Koenma added. "In any case, we are to meet her this afternoon. Are you all ready to go?"

The four of them looked from one to the other and nodded as if it was a stupid question that didn't need to be answered.

Koenma nodded back and turned into his teenage form, so as not to spook the girl they were to meet.

Botan opened up a portal and the group entered, landing just a few steps before Sutamina's front door.

"Let me handle this." Koenma acknowledged, stepping up to the door.

The group followed him, curious to what the girl looked like. Koenma knocked, and a moment later, the door opened.

Hiei couldn't believe it.

It was that girl...that girl he had saved...!

She was standing in front of the doorway, in a pair of overalls and a t- shirt, looking bewildered.

The girl called Sutamina looked everyone over curiously, but when her eyes landed on Hiei, she lit up.

"Oh you! I didn't get a chance to thank you for saving me the other night! Please, all of you, come in!" she chirped, opening the door up wide.

Everyone stared at Hiei in confusion, and the only reply they received was an indifferent "Hn" as Hiei walked by them into the house.

The group followed and was asked to sit on the couch while Sutamina left to finish something.

They heard an old scratchy voice down the hall call: "Suta, who is at the door?"

"Some friends Gramps!" She announced as she walked down the hallway. "They're here for a visit. Come on, it's your bedtime and Jeopardy is on if I'm correct."

They heard the screech of wheels on the tile in the back, and then, about ten minutes later, a tired looking Sutamina returned with a tray full of glasses of tea and a plate of cookies.

She set them on the table and beckoned them to help themselves. As she sat down, she grabbed her own cup and took a sip.

"So, what brings you strangers to my home? I don't believe I've done anything to earn myself any attention." She asked, looking timid.

"You are Sutamina Nohara right?" Koenma asked, helping himself to a cookie.

"Yes."

"Your parents were Koudo Nohara and Hinote Nohara, correct?"

"Yes again."

Koenma sighed, and then, as if he was trying to be in a soap opera, he took Sutamina's hand and held it in his own.

"You are in danger Sutamina Nohara."

"Okay, one thing. No one but the people I work for, call me Sutamina. Everyone else calls me Suta, or Mina. Secondly, I already know I'm in danger and I am working to protect myself. So if you excuse me, I have to fix my grandfather's dinner." She glared at Koenma and stood up to leave.

"Suta? You are at least sixteen right?" Kurama asked, staring at the girl.

"Yeah, what of it?"

"Shouldn't you be in school right now?"

"No. I don't need school." She walked away on them right there and then and into the kitchen to prepare the food.

The group took her leave of the room as their invitation to leave the home.

They all stood up, except for Hiei who had been leaning against the wall the entire time, and left the living room.

Koenma shook his head.

Again, another thing he hadn't expected.

"We were just telling her that we'd protect her." He mumbled, and Botan smiled wanly and tried to comfort him the best she could.

"So what do we do?" Kuwabara asked, crossing his arms.

"Well, I guess when you and Kurama are not at school, you're watching her. Hiei, you've nothing else to do so why don't you keep your eye on her alright?" Koenma asked.

"Hn." Hiei answered and disappeared.

"I wanted her watched and protected at all times. At least until the full moon of this month."

"What happens then Koenma?" Botan asked curiously.

"I'm not sure. But her parents seemed very focused on making sure she was safe until this next full moon. They gave me a letter explaining that their daughter would have something important to do then, and so to protect her until then."

"Where are her parents anyway?" Kuwabara wondered aloud.

"They were killed in a car accident a few years ago." Koenma answered, walking away.

Botan followed him, and they left the street through a portal to the Spirit World.

"Well, guess we start the mission guys." Kuwabara mumbled, sitting on the sidewalk.

"Yes. I gather we should." Kurama agreed, leaning on a tree across the street from the house.

"But something bothers me." he added, closing his eyes.

"What is?" Kuwabara asked, looking behind him.

"Why would a mediator of demons be so easily killed in a car accident of all things?"

"Don't know. Maybe they were hit by a drunk driver."

"Perhaps."

They (well, Kurama knew) were unaware that Hiei stood in the tree, overlooking the house.

Sure it was a stupid mission to protect a measly human, but then again, it was better than nothing.

At least now he had something to do.

Hiei still marveled at how this girl captivated him.

He wasn't sure how she managed to do so, but she did.

Just looking at her drew him into staring at her, and then he couldn't stop.

He wouldn't even blink!

Hiei shook his head.

This human was getting to him and he didn't like it.

Nothing should be able to gather as much attention from him as this girl.

Hiei was drawn from his thoughts when he heard the scream ring from the house.

Kurama and Kuwabara were up and moving, but they were no match for Hiei's speed, and before they even made it to the front door he had opened the window of the second floor and was inside.

He quickly made his way to where he had heard the scream, and to the now sobbing woman that sat quivering on the floor.

Suta had her face in her hands, and Hiei could smell the tears and the fear that radiated from her.

Upon looking at her grandfather, he knew why.

The old man was dead...dead as one could be, with a pale face and a pair of open eyes that had clouded over from lack of life.

He had a dagger stabbed strait through his heart, and his mouth hung open as if he had tried to scream but couldn't find his voice.

His body was still warm from what Hiei could see, but he was as dead as a doornail to the look.

Now the dagger jabbed into his chest held a slip of paper that was tied around the handle, and Hiei easily slipped it off and read it.

He wasn't at all stunned by the words.

Girl, you are next. Prepare to die wench!

That was it.

There was no signature, no marks or splatters of ink other than the cold words.

A minute later, Kurama and Kuwabara busted into the room.

Kuwabara appeared disgusted by the dead elder, but Kurama immediately stepped over to hug the sobbing girl.

"It's okay. Calm down. It's alright. It's going to be alright." He whispered to her in comfort.

Kuwabara ran from the room with his hand over his mouth, ready to barf.

Hiei held out the paper to his partner, and he took it.

Kurama read it a few times over, and then crunched it into a ball and tossed it into a waste basket.

They hadn't expected that whoever was after Suta would kill her grandfather to cause her fear.

Not in their wildest dreams.

This was a demon, that was for certain.

It would be the only thing so cold hearted as that as to rip the girl from the one thing she lived with.

Kuwabara returned to the room a moment later, his face pale and disgusted.

Hiei could tell that he had expelled everything left in his stomach simply from seeing actual human blood.

Weakling....

Suta hiccupped as she held onto Kurama's shirt.

To see such a sight of family being murdered when you had only seen them a moment thence, was a terrible experience, one no one should ever have to deal with.

Yet this girl had lost her parents and her grandfather in a matter of a few years.

A little too early for someone so young.

"Kuwabara. Call the police. They'll need to see this." Kurama ordered, still hugging the girl.

Kuwabara nodded and ran from the room, happy to get away from the display of blood over the elderly human.

Ten minutes later, the police arrived, and a bit after that, the FBI arrived too.

(I don't know whether Japan has the FBI, but oh well. I like the way FBI sounds so cool, and so I'm gonna stick with it! )

They questioned Suta several times, and when they were finally satisfied, they asked that she leave the house on a vacation or something.

They would clean the mess and have the man sent to a morgue to be analyzed, and then they would get back to her.

Botan appeared on the side walk when the police had left, and told a now calmer Suta that Koenma had requested she stay at his castle until demons stopped trying to hunt her down.

Sutimina nodded weakly and followed Botan into the portal, Kurama still holding her in an attempt to give her whatever comfort he could.

The FBI didn't even noticed that the group had walked into the air and disappeared.

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Catse: What do you think? If you're wondering where I got the names from, I had checked out this website where English could be translated to romanized Japanese, and from there I derived the names. Sutamina means Energy, Nohara means field, which should help give a clue to why demons are after her. Her parents, Koudo and Hinote, mean Earth and Fire as to represent two of the four elements of nature. I thought it would be cool...and I couldn't really think of anything ot name the parents so I stuck with that idea. Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter. I'll really try to update everthing to day, I promise!