Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Everyday Life? ❯ Back to the Mission ( Chapter 9 )
Everyday Life?
Chapter Nine: Back to the Mission
Hello, minna-sama. We would just like to…clear up a little confusion that occurred as a result of events in the last chapter. This story does NOT contain yuri. Okay…now that that's cleared up, we'd like to thank you for all of your reviews. We really appreciate them and they help us write more of what you want. Please enjoy chapter nine.
-The Next Day, Makai-
"You dreamt what?!" Robin's face flushed scarlet as Judy told her about the dream she had had last night with excruciating detail.
Hiei's mouth dropped as he and his fox overheard the description. Kurama's face soon matched his hair and his gaze met Robin's briefly. Both of them remembered that night, but how the hell did Judy dream it…?
"What…?" Judy asked upon seeing the fierce blushes staining her companions' faces. "It was just a dream."
Kurama laughed nervously and said, "Yah, just a dream! That's right!"
"Shut up!" Robin elbowed him in the ribs, silencing him with a wicked glare.
Slowly, realization dawned upon the other two members of the team. "It wasn't just a dream…was it?" Hiei asked, eyes widening significantly.
Robin sighed, "I suppose it's my turn…" She shifted uncomfortably, "That was most definitely not just a dream. I remember that night quite vividly."
Hiei blinked and Kurama watched as his lover slowly tensed up, his possessive side coming out. He quickly intervened. "But how in the three worlds did Judy dream of that night?"
"What night would this be anyway?" Judy grinned as she asked, a devilish light in her eyes.
Robin pulled her friend aside and whispered, "The first night."
Judy's eyes widened, "No way!"
"Hai."
"Cool!"
Robin sweat dropped, answering several rather personal questions to pacify her friend's rabid curiosity, and then the two returned to their teammates, who had been discussing what could have caused such an… odd event.
"That must be it," Kurama said just as the girls returned.
"What?" Robin asked, raising a brow.
"How much youki had you recovered by last night?" Hiei asked, then scanned her up and down. "And don't lie, I know you aren't even close to half recovered."
Robin glared at him when two worried gazed landed on her, then answered quietly, "A little more than a fourth of my top."
"I knew it," Hiei said, "It's the Jagan." Robin refused to meet his gaze. "You can't control it now, can you?"
"No," she answered gruffly, averting her eyes again, "So what?"
"Hey, where's this going?" Judy asked. "Is there a point to worrying me out of my mind?"
"Well, you're right to be worried," Hiei decided not to elaborate on that when he heard a very distinct threat of torture and pain pass through his mind, "But besides that, the vision you saw was the memories dragged out by the Jagan. Since she can't control the Jagan, it must have sent it out on its own."
"But why… would it do…'that'…?" Kurama asked, a little worried something like that would happen again.
Hiei shrugged, "Jagans are weird. They have a mind of their own to a certain point and can easily take control of their possessor if enough youki is lost."
Robin tried to glare at her Jagan, "Stupid third eye."
Judy laughed at her friend, then suddenly remembered what they were really in the Makai for. "Hey guys, aren't we on a mission?"
All three demons froze and said, "Oh shit!"
Kurama and Hiei hurried around and packed up. Judy pulled out the map and searched for a shortcut, or maybe even a portal to their destination. Robin was sitting on the ground, rummaging through a bag that usually hung on her hip, and then tinkered with something in her lap.
"Ready!" all four of them said at the same time.
"Let's go!" Judy said, then opened a portal, "How good am I? I found a portal that leads right to the town!"
"Great, now let's go!!" Robin said, pulling her friend to the portal.
"Okay, okay!"
The four hurried through the portal, emerging a few seconds later in the ratty town where the thieves had headed. Judy and Robin headed for the inn to talk to (a.k.a. seduce, flirt) the men bound to be there since they were the best at recon, while Hiei and Kurama started prowling the alleyways and back roads for clues.
After four or five hours of nothing, they rendezvoused in front of the inn.
"Nada."
"We didn't learn anything either," Robin kicked at the ground, then stifled a yawn. Judy and Kurama glared at her. She glared back, "I'm FINE!"
Kurama shook his head, then looked at the map. "There's an inn about five miles north from here. Maybe they're there."
"Worth a shot," Robin said and started for the north gate. "Let's get this over with."
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After about ten minutes of walking, Judy stopped dead in her tracks, looking over to her right.
"What's up?" Hiei asked.
"I thought I felt something over there," she pointed to the woods on the side of the path.
"Like what?" Kurama asked.
"Youki," she closed her eyes and concentrated for a few seconds. "There's definitely something over there, in a clearing," she informed everyone.
"Worth a shot," Robin said, pushing Kurama towards the woods. "Make a path where Judy says to." Kurama raised a brow at her command, and Robin continued, "Make a path or I will personally ensure Hiei will become as familiar with the effects of my very favorite herb as you are."
That got him moving and he quickly parted the trees where Judy indicated.
"You sure you know where we're going?" Hiei said, keeping an eye on the demoness who had just threatened him.
"Yes."
"Hn."
"Look, Hiei," Robin interrupted, "When it comes to sensing youki, she's as good as any demon. Better than most, in fact."
Hiei was skeptical, until they reached the clearing that is. The thieves looked up in surprise from their card game, the expensive treasures stolen from Reikai sitting haphazardly in the grass.
The fight broke out, and they were surprised to find the thieves were very strong. Two S classes and an A class, as well as a mercenary force of several dozen B and C classes.
Hiei was holding off one of the S classes, flitting around it while inflicting cuts and burns. He sent it flying into a tree with a blast of black fire, and then sent his gaze around to monitor the battles going on around him. His gaze landed on the ningen first.
Judy started firing arrows into the mercenary force, double, triple, and quadruple loading her bow. She had been waiting for a chance to try her new techniques, taught to her by Hiei and Kurama during their stay in the Makai last week. Especially the once she had dubbed "Arrow Rain." She loaded her bow with five arrows, powering them up with spirit energy before letting them fly into the crowd. She took out a dozen with one attack. She laughed happily and repeated her new favorite technique. Thanks, Kurama-chan!
After toying with that for a while, she tried another, this time one taught to her by Hiei. She put a single arrow in her bow and charged it with energy, all of it concentrated on the tip, and aimed for the center of the group. This one, dubbed, "Bomb Blast" was fun to watch. She fired the arrow then watched as the arrow exploded on contact, sending lots of demons to their deaths. Ha! This is so much fun!
Judy's fine. He looked around for his fox.
Kurama concentrated on the A class demon, forming a strategy quickly as he dodged various attacks from it. It was using close range attacks, always keeping in an arms length of the graceful fox, so Kurama decided to go for a long range attack. He tricked the demon into a binding of ivy before sending a man-eating plant to devour it. He turned his attention to another group of mercenaries who charged out from the forest.
Hmm…Kurama's ok. Now where's Robin…?
Not seeing her, he moved to go look for the elusive demoness, but his own opponent sprung back into action and he was forced to fight it off. Damn it!
Unseen to Hiei, Robin was fighting the other S-class. The small demoness was kneeling, obviously winded. The demon was laughing at her as she panted lightly from exertion. She hissed, then quickly flipped out of the way when the demon charged at her.
After toying with something in that pouch on her hip, she turned serious. She waited for the demon fighting her to turn around, then grinned and taunted the demon, "What are you, a bull?" The demon charged again and she leapt back, letting a laugh escape when the large demon tripped over a small fissure in the ground.
"You think that's funny, wretch?!" the demon quickly got up and then sent a ball of ki flying in the air towards her.
"Crap!" Robin said, then scrambled out of the way. "Oh shit!" she was reduced to panicked dodging as the demon continued to fire ki-balls at her. She managed alright until she tripped over a tree root from one of the plant's Kurama was using to fight the masses of mercenaries.
"You're really in a hurry to see the infant, aren't you?" Hiei flitted over and grabbed her, jumping out of the way of another attack just in time. Hiei moved his teasing crimson eyes to meet Robin's shocked ones.
A blush stained her cheeks as she attempted to wiggle out of his arms. "Thanks," she grumbled, then shifted again, "Could you please put me down?"
"Heh, sure," Hiei laughed, then placed her feet on the ground. He then gestured towards the demon looking around for his prey, "Can I lend a hand?"
"If you must," Robin said, rolling her eyes.
With that the two of them proceeded to fight the demon. Hiei flitted around it, causing minor injuries, while Robin started sending fireballs and icicles at it. After their combined efforts had weakened it, she started using her shurikens, which had been in that pouch she was tinkering with earlier.
Stop moving around, you stupid demon, Robin thought, Stand still for two seconds! She tossed another one and it embedded itself in the leather armor covering his chest, Finally!
"Hiei!" she called, gathering a ball of black fire into her hands. She gestured for him to back off, and Hiei took the hint and moved away. She sent the fireball at him, and the shuriken exploded, sending white powder all over the youkai, who cried out and fell to the ground. Hiei jumped back in and stuck his sword through the S-class' back.
"That's that," Hiei said, sheathing his sword after cleaning it on the dead demon's shirt. "Aren't you glad I took care of that for you?"
"Hiei, I'm quite sure I was just as responsible for the kill as you," Robin insisted.
"Yeah," Hiei teased, "uh huh."
"Hiei!"
They started to argue back and forth, totally ignoring the S-class Hiei had been fighting, who was now watching the two bad-tempered demons argue. Kurama and Judy finished off the mercenaries and joined the youkai in watching the fierce argument. Then, after about five minutes, the not-arguing parties realized they were still involved in a fight.
Judy and Kurama teamed up and took out the S-class, then started to locate the items. They returned to the scene of their friends' fight to find, surprisingly, Hiei gloating while Robin brooded on a tree stump.
"Hiei actually won a fight?" Judy asked, incredulous.
"Yup!" Hiei chirped, "Cool, huh?"
"I'll show you cool," Robin said then waved a hand in his direction, sending a spray of ice over him. "Baka youkai…" She turned her back on him and started to talk to Judy, clearly showing him that was the end of the argument.
Kurama shook his head and called Koenma on the communicator to tell him they had retrieved the items and would return them soon. Hiei, after melting the ice covering him with his fiery ki, inspected the items, making sure all of them were there. Then he bundled them up in a bag.
Meanwhile, back at the tree stump, Judy and Robin played cards with the thieves' deck.
"Poker?" Judy asked, shuffling the deck.
"Sure," she said, then added thoughtfully, "Five-card-draw please."
"Of course," Judy dealt them each out five cards. "So," she asked, "Just what is your favorite herb, huh?" She discarded three cards.
"Heh," Robin replied, "Nosy. It's hemlock." She looked at her hand, then discarded two cards, "Two please."
"Hemlock?" Judy handed her two cards, then took three of her own. "What does that do?"
"Really wanna know?" She tossed away one card, "Two pair. Eights, aces."
"Che'," Judy threw her hand in, "Ace high. I swear you cheat somehow…" She reshuffled the deck and dealt out another hand, "And yes, I would love to know." She grinned, "Must be useful if you like it so much."
"Impotency," she said calmly, looking at her hand.
Judy dropped the cards, "NO!"
"Hai," Robin chuckled quietly.
"You're so evil," Judy said with a bit of awe in her voice.
"Heh…I know."
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By the time they had returned the items to Koenma in the Reikai, it was nightfall. The four made their way back to the Ningenkai. After the girls hugged goodbye, and the boys had a goodnight kiss, they parted. Judy and Kurama left for Judy's, and Kiru...Robin and Hiei headed for Robin's ningen home.
On the way home, the red-head was interrogated by the ningen on several meaningless things. Then, as he expected, Judy started asking what she really wanted to know…
"Soo," Judy asked with a grin, "You were…hee hee…more than partners with Robin, ne?"
Kurama rubbed his temples, "Yes, and you know that well enough."
"Why did you two stop being partners?" she was really curious about that. If she had a choice, Judy would never stop being partners with her best friend.
"Ahh…that's complicated," the kitsune rubbed the back of his neck.
"Ooohh…" Judy said thoughtfully, "I guess it was your fault…I'll have to ask Robin what happened…"
"Listen," Kurama interjected, "Kiru and I had a long run and-"
"How long?"
Kurama sighed, "About 40 years."
"Wow," she knew from a discussion with Hiei earlier that week that the average partnership lasted a mere 15 years, "you must have really liked her."
"Yes," the fox resisted the urge to strangle his ningen companion, "But-"
"Oh, I know!!" Judy's eyes lit up, "You still like her, don't you?!" Judy stifled a giggle; she loved playing the devil's advocate.
"No," Kurama's face flushed, "I-"
Judy ran ahead, "I'm telling Hiei!!!" She laughed, looking back to see the fox following close behind.
"Hey, wait!!!" he blanched and hurried after her, "You've got it all wrong!!! WAIT!!!"
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Meanwhile, Hiei and Robin were walking down the dark streets near her house in silence, stealing glances at one another.
Hiei caught her looking at him with a soft crimson gaze, "What?"
She averted her eyes, "Nothing." What's wrong with me…staring like that…
Hiei raised an eyebrow, spotting the pink coloring her cheeks, "Right." They walked in silence for a few seconds, then Hiei asked, "What's the deal between you and Kurama anyway?" Hiei was seeing her in a different light- now she was a bit of a threat to his love life.
"There isn't a deal anymore," Robin told him, meeting his gaze, "We were together for a while, and then we parted ways. That's all. No more." She stopped and looked up at the crescent moon, "It's over." She tilted her head to the side to look at him and smiled, "Don't worry, I didn't want him like you do then, nor do I now."
"Hn," Hiei nodded, "Good." They continued walking, and Hiei stole a glance at her while she studied the star-studded sky. I suppose…I can…trust her. A small smile lit his face and they finished the walk home in a comfortable silence.
