Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Realistic Fiction ❯ Fun With Stalkers ( Chapter 4 )
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By: Wizardess Gal 
“I’m only caught when I want to be caught.”
Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Comedy / Adventure / | Type: Self Insertion | Uploaded On: 01.11.2005 | Updated On: 12.15.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 3.8K | Visits: 322 | Status: Completed
“I’m only caught when I want to be caught.”
Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Comedy / Adventure / | Type: Self Insertion | Uploaded On: 01.11.2005 | Updated On: 12.15.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 3.8K | Visits: 322 | Status: Completed
Ultra Special Blah Blah Blah*: Argh. I really didn't want to do an author's note (the previous "chapter" doesn't count), but, alas, I have deemed one necessary, so I'm just cramming everything I need to say into one big-ass author's note.
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ONE.
I just received a review commenting that it was a little curious that Koenma is not yet on my case for being all-knowing. There's a reason, but I won't explain it. Ha ha. Sucks for you.
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TWO.
If it seems there's anything going on between dear Kitsune and I, there isn't. It's either Kurama being charming or Youko being flirty, as that's how I portray him: a suave, perverted ladies' man.
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THREE.
I suppose this could have been combined with number two, but... it's not. Freakin' bite me.
Right, so. I'm not adding any special qualities to myself, and blah blah blah. Instead, I'm adding and/or exaggerating negative-ish qualities.
I also angst. A lot. I'm not getting into that because, well... you know, the angsty past thing. That, and I like to make people laugh- not feel all depressed.
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FOUR.
This one is concerning dear Misako. She's basically all my insanity condensed and running around unchecked with far too much energy and spare time.
Why did I create here? Pure convenience. I needed a character that wasn't really bad, per se, but would run around wreaking havoc. After all, a resident maniac is very helpful for getting mini-plots going, even though this next one has nothing to do with her. Really freaking powerful? Again, convenience.
Misako-chan's only Mary-Sue-like qualities are that she is extremely powerful, she is female, and not actively unattractive. (If you ignore the fact that her hair and eyes are naturally purple, she's actually quite plain.)
She will not get together with Hiei, if he has any say in the matter. (He doesn't, really, but I do, and I say no.) She'll just stalk him and glomp him and call him "Hi-chan" and just generally all-around bother him. Misako's a fun character to play around with. ...That didn't come out right, but you know what I mean.
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*Thank you, Takaya-sensei! (Manga-ka of Fruits Basket, which I do not own; nor do I own Takaya-sensei. I might as well stick in here that I don't own YYH, while I'm at it.)
This A/N is waaaaaaaay too long, so here's the chapter. It's short, but the next one is already complete. Have fun.
I carefully erased any traces of anxiety as I rang the doorbell of the Kuwabara residence, smiling to see that it was Shizuru that answered the door, cigarette hanging from her lips.
She leaned casually on the door frame. "Can I help you?"
"Ano, yes. Would you be Shizuru, older sister to Kazuma?"
Her eyes narrowed. "Okay, what's that little punk done this time? I can beat him up for you if you want-"
I laughed and waved my hands in front of me. "No, no. I'm a friend of his."
She visibly relaxed. "Oh, okay then. He's not home right now, but I can tell him you stopped by. What's your name?"
"Aya, and it's actually a good thing he's not here yet." At Shizuru's raised eyebrow, I elaborated, but first I whipped a small Japanese-English dictionary, flipped through it briefly, then looked back up, beaming. "I am here for... espionage."
"Is that so...?"
I nodded. "Yup! See, Botan-chan let it slip that Kuwabara-kun, Yusuke-kun, Hiei-san, and Kitsune will be meeting here, and I'm thinking it's for their next mission or something, and I really, really, really want to know what it is, because I'm bored and nosy."
"Hmm." Shizuru considered me for a moment. "You know about that stuff , then?"
"Yup!"
She thought for another moment before grinning mischievously. "Come on in." I mimicked her grin and did so, closing the door behind me. "Put your stuff by the door- no, they'll see that. Give 'em here- I'll put them in my room." She slid open a door and placed my stuff inside before continuing. As we walked into the kitchen, she asked, "Want something to eat?"
"Mm, no th- are those bananas?"
"Yeah."
I gave her the infamous puppy-dog eyes. "May Aya-chan have one?"
Shizuru laughed. "Sure."
"Yatta!" I half-skipped over to the basket of the aforementioned fruit, picked out a ripe one, peeled it open, and took a bite. "Mm. Banana-y goodness."
We both looked up as we heard the front door open and close, followed by the sound of four pairs of footsteps. I hid behind the counter as Kazuma poked his head into the kitchen. "Hey, Nee-san, we're gonna use the VCR, okay?"
"Sure, whatever." After the footsteps faded and I heard the door slide shut, Shizuru poked her head over the counter. "You have high spirit awareness?" she asked.
"Not that I know of."
"Didn't think so. Well, you can listen from outside the door, if you want, but you'll probably only hear static."
"Are these Koenma tapes interactive?"
"I think so, though it doesn't make any sense."
"Then I'll just pick up what I can from what the guys say," I explained. I had thought this out ahead of time, after all. Sort of.
She nodded. "That might work. You'll have to be inhumanly quiet if you don't want to be caught, though, kid."
I sent a mysterious smile over my shoulder as I started down the hall leading to the door they had gone through. "I'm only caught when I want to be caught."
I sat down outside the door, slowly nibbling on my banana, and heard Yusuke speak. "Okay, Koenma, what's up?"
Then I heard some static.
"Wait, lemme guess," said Yusuke, rudely interrupting the static. "These girls he's taking- I'll bet they're virgins, and he's gonna sacrifice them to some monster?"
Brief static.
"Whoah. I was kidding."
Kuwabara spoke next. "Well, I guess those stories had to come from somewhere."
Kurama's turn. "Virgin sacrifices are cliché for a reason. What kind of monster is it?"
Static.
There was a sneer in Hiei's voice. "How typical. You're sending us off to fight something and you don't even know what it is."
Static again.
"Well," said Yusuke, "we'll just have to get this guy before that can happen. He's in the Makai, right? Got a portal handy?"
I vaguely wondered why static sounded like that. It was so annoying.
Kurama spoke again. "The woods just east of Kuwabara's house? That's not far. If that's it, we should get going."
There was a little more static before the TV clicked off. I grinned and stood up just in time to look up at Kuwabara as he slid the door open.
"Oh, Aya," he said absently.
"Yo." I took a small bite of my banana.
Three other faces came into view behind him and he blinked. "Wait... Aya?"
"Yeah?"
"Aya?!"
I sidestepped and turned around to lean on the wall to my right. "That would be my name, yes. Congratulations."
The full Tantei moved into the hall, all eyebrows raised in either surprise, curiosity, or both. Yusuke crossed his arms. "What are you doing here?"
I glanced downward slightly, then back up. "Eating a banana." His questioning glare turned into an incredulous stare.
"I can see that!"
"Good banana, too. Yummy." I popped the rest into my mouth and casually strolled to the kitchen to discard the peel. "Then why did you ask?"
Kurama decided to intervene before Yusuke grew annoyed. "Allow me to rephrase the question. Why are you here, and how long have you been here?"
"Now we're getting somewhere." I located the trash bin and tossed the peel. "I came I'm bored and nosy. I arrived a couple minutes before you guys did, hid behind the counter, then sat outside this door, listening in."
"Well, her level of surface reiki is average," said Kuwabara, "so she couldn't have heard more than static."
Hiei snorted. "Koenma wasn't the only one talking. Surely you aren't deaf as well as stupid?" He ignored Kuwabara's indignant huff and directed his next question at me. "You."
"Me," I replied pertly, rather amused by the short demon's rudeness.
"How much do you know?"
"Right to the point, I see." I lazily laced my hands behind my head. "Well, since you asked straight out, I'll answer straight out. There's a guy that's kidnapping virgin girls to sacrifice to some monster, type unknown. There's a portal in the woods just east of here."
Yusuke nodded. "That sums it up pretty good. If the toddler had just said that, we'd have been long gone by now."
"Hn. He just likes to hear himself talk."
"We really should get going," said Kurama. He then turned to me. "Aya, I want you to stay here until we get back. Understand?"
"Yup."
"Good. Let's go," said Yusuke, leading them out of the house.
Shizuru, who had been silent to enjoy the show, gave me a look. "What, that's it?"
"Of course not. I said I understood, but I never said anything about obeying. I'll follow them at a distance."
Shizuru took a drag of her cigarette and smirked. "Nice one, kiddo. Better hurry. They move fast."
"Right." I walked briskly to the door, opened it, then turned around. "Many thanks, Shizuru-san." After a brief bow, I left, closing the door behind me.
"Good luck, kid. Try not to get eaten."
~~~
I smirked at the forest floor. "First time in the Makai, and they're courteous enough to leave a path for me? How kind of them. I'll be sure not to thank them." They apparently weren't worried about leaving a trail, and why would they? This wasn't a mission of espionage... but mine was, and it just kept getting easier and easier, I thought to myself, when I heard a low growl behind me.
The thing about the Demon World is that demons tend to hang out there.
Eh.
I let out a light sigh, turning around to face the source of the growl. Two yellow, glowing eyes were visible from the underbrush. "Oh, how original. Show yourself, buddy. I'm not gonna be intimidated by eyes alone. For all I know, they could belong to a demon bunny rabbit."
A creature stepped out of the shadows. It was... a... creature, not worth a description (actually, I'm just lazy), not resembling any earthly creature that I had ever seen.
I didn't really care. "Right, okay. Did you need something? I haven't got all day."
It blinked, then growled again.
"No? Then I'll be going now. Don't wait up." I turned back around and continued.
There was a pause before the creature suddenly appeared in front of me, growling again.
"Look, I'm in a hurry."
Growl.
I sighed, then walked briskly around it. "Whatever."
After that, I just ignored it. I kept walking, and it kept following and growling. Again, I didn't really care.
"Looks like you have a Ripper Demon stalking you."
I glanced up at the trees where the male voice had come from without stopping. "Oh, is that what it's called? How infinitely clever. Hello."
"Hi," said the voice.
A minute passed.
"What, you're going to just ignore me?"
"I'm not ignoring you. I said hello, didn't I?" I glared halfheartedly at the little demon that was still growling. "Look, piss off already."
"I'm wounded," said my other companion.
"I was talking to Zippo over there. He's beginning to grate my nerves."
"You're not scared?"
"I'm only afraid of heights and spiders."
"Ah."
"Oh, and needles." There was a shudder. "Listen, I'd love to sit and chat over tea, really, but I'm busy."
"With what?"
"I'm stalk- (Damnit, leave me alone!) -ing my buddies."
"Four guys? Really strong auras?"
"Yeah. You see them?"
"Nah, but I can sense them. They're like lighthouses."
"How close are they?"
"Around 25 meters. And they don't know you're following them?"
"Not unless I want them to."
"Wow. Hey, there's someone else here. They're masking their ki pretty well, though."
"How close?"
"About... 14... 11... 6... shit. Watch yourself."
"Eh?" The tree-traveling man's presence had suddenly disappeared- "Eh?" -and a huge net-thing had suddenly come out of nowhere- "Eh?" -and I was suddenly in it. "Shit."
A creepy shadow-guy with what looked like a deformed bazooka stepped stepped out from nowhere. "Good, only three more virgins to go- what?!"
A small throwing scythe-and-chain flew out of, you guessed it, nowhere. I "eek"ed as it whizzed past my ear, slicing through the net before returning to its owner.
"It's rude to attack a lady you just met," commented my savior, aka the tree-traveling man, from behind me. "Oi, whoever you are, your friends are coming."
I "eek"ed again as I felt a strong arm pick me up by my waist. There was a whoosh of huge wings that were probably somehow attached to the arm that was quickly carrying me upward.
The winged somebody deposited me on a branch far too high to be able to jump to it from the ground, and also just high enough from which I wouldn't feel comfortable jumping. "Better keep you out of harm's way, huh?"
"Thanks, but did it half to be so high?"
"Yup. More amusing for me. Here, after your buddies are done with this virgin-napping weirdo, open this." He thrust a small bit of rolled-up paper into my hand and disappeared again.
I heard a fight. I couldn't see it from my perch. Damnit. He did that on purpose.
The fight-y noises stopped after a while, and, assuming it was over, I unrolled my present to find... "KYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" ...a huge spider. It quickly crawled away at the scream that could probably be heard miles away.
"Aya?" came Yusuke's voice.
"Argh!"
"What the hell are you doing here?!"
Hey, there was something written on the paper in sloppy but legible handwriting:
::So, have they found you yet?::
I grumbled to myself, stuffing the note in my pocket before calling out to the gang. "Baking cookies! Just get me down from here!"
~~~
Once we got back to the human world, I got a scolding from Kurama. Luckily, it was interrupted by Botan, who announced that the monster had gotten loose, and was hungry. They had to go right back through the portal.
So what did I do? I followed them, of course.
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ONE.
I just received a review commenting that it was a little curious that Koenma is not yet on my case for being all-knowing. There's a reason, but I won't explain it. Ha ha. Sucks for you.
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TWO.
If it seems there's anything going on between dear Kitsune and I, there isn't. It's either Kurama being charming or Youko being flirty, as that's how I portray him: a suave, perverted ladies' man.
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THREE.
I suppose this could have been combined with number two, but... it's not. Freakin' bite me.
Right, so. I'm not adding any special qualities to myself, and blah blah blah. Instead, I'm adding and/or exaggerating negative-ish qualities.
I also angst. A lot. I'm not getting into that because, well... you know, the angsty past thing. That, and I like to make people laugh- not feel all depressed.
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FOUR.
This one is concerning dear Misako. She's basically all my insanity condensed and running around unchecked with far too much energy and spare time.
Why did I create here? Pure convenience. I needed a character that wasn't really bad, per se, but would run around wreaking havoc. After all, a resident maniac is very helpful for getting mini-plots going, even though this next one has nothing to do with her. Really freaking powerful? Again, convenience.
Misako-chan's only Mary-Sue-like qualities are that she is extremely powerful, she is female, and not actively unattractive. (If you ignore the fact that her hair and eyes are naturally purple, she's actually quite plain.)
She will not get together with Hiei, if he has any say in the matter. (He doesn't, really, but I do, and I say no.) She'll just stalk him and glomp him and call him "Hi-chan" and just generally all-around bother him. Misako's a fun character to play around with. ...That didn't come out right, but you know what I mean.
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*Thank you, Takaya-sensei! (Manga-ka of Fruits Basket, which I do not own; nor do I own Takaya-sensei. I might as well stick in here that I don't own YYH, while I'm at it.)
This A/N is waaaaaaaay too long, so here's the chapter. It's short, but the next one is already complete. Have fun.
Alert the Press: It's a Plot
I carefully erased any traces of anxiety as I rang the doorbell of the Kuwabara residence, smiling to see that it was Shizuru that answered the door, cigarette hanging from her lips.
She leaned casually on the door frame. "Can I help you?"
"Ano, yes. Would you be Shizuru, older sister to Kazuma?"
Her eyes narrowed. "Okay, what's that little punk done this time? I can beat him up for you if you want-"
I laughed and waved my hands in front of me. "No, no. I'm a friend of his."
She visibly relaxed. "Oh, okay then. He's not home right now, but I can tell him you stopped by. What's your name?"
"Aya, and it's actually a good thing he's not here yet." At Shizuru's raised eyebrow, I elaborated, but first I whipped a small Japanese-English dictionary, flipped through it briefly, then looked back up, beaming. "I am here for... espionage."
"Is that so...?"
I nodded. "Yup! See, Botan-chan let it slip that Kuwabara-kun, Yusuke-kun, Hiei-san, and Kitsune will be meeting here, and I'm thinking it's for their next mission or something, and I really, really, really want to know what it is, because I'm bored and nosy."
"Hmm." Shizuru considered me for a moment. "You know about that stuff , then?"
"Yup!"
She thought for another moment before grinning mischievously. "Come on in." I mimicked her grin and did so, closing the door behind me. "Put your stuff by the door- no, they'll see that. Give 'em here- I'll put them in my room." She slid open a door and placed my stuff inside before continuing. As we walked into the kitchen, she asked, "Want something to eat?"
"Mm, no th- are those bananas?"
"Yeah."
I gave her the infamous puppy-dog eyes. "May Aya-chan have one?"
Shizuru laughed. "Sure."
"Yatta!" I half-skipped over to the basket of the aforementioned fruit, picked out a ripe one, peeled it open, and took a bite. "Mm. Banana-y goodness."
We both looked up as we heard the front door open and close, followed by the sound of four pairs of footsteps. I hid behind the counter as Kazuma poked his head into the kitchen. "Hey, Nee-san, we're gonna use the VCR, okay?"
"Sure, whatever." After the footsteps faded and I heard the door slide shut, Shizuru poked her head over the counter. "You have high spirit awareness?" she asked.
"Not that I know of."
"Didn't think so. Well, you can listen from outside the door, if you want, but you'll probably only hear static."
"Are these Koenma tapes interactive?"
"I think so, though it doesn't make any sense."
"Then I'll just pick up what I can from what the guys say," I explained. I had thought this out ahead of time, after all. Sort of.
She nodded. "That might work. You'll have to be inhumanly quiet if you don't want to be caught, though, kid."
I sent a mysterious smile over my shoulder as I started down the hall leading to the door they had gone through. "I'm only caught when I want to be caught."
I sat down outside the door, slowly nibbling on my banana, and heard Yusuke speak. "Okay, Koenma, what's up?"
Then I heard some static.
"Wait, lemme guess," said Yusuke, rudely interrupting the static. "These girls he's taking- I'll bet they're virgins, and he's gonna sacrifice them to some monster?"
Brief static.
"Whoah. I was kidding."
Kuwabara spoke next. "Well, I guess those stories had to come from somewhere."
Kurama's turn. "Virgin sacrifices are cliché for a reason. What kind of monster is it?"
Static.
There was a sneer in Hiei's voice. "How typical. You're sending us off to fight something and you don't even know what it is."
Static again.
"Well," said Yusuke, "we'll just have to get this guy before that can happen. He's in the Makai, right? Got a portal handy?"
I vaguely wondered why static sounded like that. It was so annoying.
Kurama spoke again. "The woods just east of Kuwabara's house? That's not far. If that's it, we should get going."
There was a little more static before the TV clicked off. I grinned and stood up just in time to look up at Kuwabara as he slid the door open.
"Oh, Aya," he said absently.
"Yo." I took a small bite of my banana.
Three other faces came into view behind him and he blinked. "Wait... Aya?"
"Yeah?"
"Aya?!"
I sidestepped and turned around to lean on the wall to my right. "That would be my name, yes. Congratulations."
The full Tantei moved into the hall, all eyebrows raised in either surprise, curiosity, or both. Yusuke crossed his arms. "What are you doing here?"
I glanced downward slightly, then back up. "Eating a banana." His questioning glare turned into an incredulous stare.
"I can see that!"
"Good banana, too. Yummy." I popped the rest into my mouth and casually strolled to the kitchen to discard the peel. "Then why did you ask?"
Kurama decided to intervene before Yusuke grew annoyed. "Allow me to rephrase the question. Why are you here, and how long have you been here?"
"Now we're getting somewhere." I located the trash bin and tossed the peel. "I came I'm bored and nosy. I arrived a couple minutes before you guys did, hid behind the counter, then sat outside this door, listening in."
"Well, her level of surface reiki is average," said Kuwabara, "so she couldn't have heard more than static."
Hiei snorted. "Koenma wasn't the only one talking. Surely you aren't deaf as well as stupid?" He ignored Kuwabara's indignant huff and directed his next question at me. "You."
"Me," I replied pertly, rather amused by the short demon's rudeness.
"How much do you know?"
"Right to the point, I see." I lazily laced my hands behind my head. "Well, since you asked straight out, I'll answer straight out. There's a guy that's kidnapping virgin girls to sacrifice to some monster, type unknown. There's a portal in the woods just east of here."
Yusuke nodded. "That sums it up pretty good. If the toddler had just said that, we'd have been long gone by now."
"Hn. He just likes to hear himself talk."
"We really should get going," said Kurama. He then turned to me. "Aya, I want you to stay here until we get back. Understand?"
"Yup."
"Good. Let's go," said Yusuke, leading them out of the house.
Shizuru, who had been silent to enjoy the show, gave me a look. "What, that's it?"
"Of course not. I said I understood, but I never said anything about obeying. I'll follow them at a distance."
Shizuru took a drag of her cigarette and smirked. "Nice one, kiddo. Better hurry. They move fast."
"Right." I walked briskly to the door, opened it, then turned around. "Many thanks, Shizuru-san." After a brief bow, I left, closing the door behind me.
"Good luck, kid. Try not to get eaten."
~~~
I smirked at the forest floor. "First time in the Makai, and they're courteous enough to leave a path for me? How kind of them. I'll be sure not to thank them." They apparently weren't worried about leaving a trail, and why would they? This wasn't a mission of espionage... but mine was, and it just kept getting easier and easier, I thought to myself, when I heard a low growl behind me.
The thing about the Demon World is that demons tend to hang out there.
Eh.
I let out a light sigh, turning around to face the source of the growl. Two yellow, glowing eyes were visible from the underbrush. "Oh, how original. Show yourself, buddy. I'm not gonna be intimidated by eyes alone. For all I know, they could belong to a demon bunny rabbit."
A creature stepped out of the shadows. It was... a... creature, not worth a description (actually, I'm just lazy), not resembling any earthly creature that I had ever seen.
I didn't really care. "Right, okay. Did you need something? I haven't got all day."
It blinked, then growled again.
"No? Then I'll be going now. Don't wait up." I turned back around and continued.
There was a pause before the creature suddenly appeared in front of me, growling again.
"Look, I'm in a hurry."
Growl.
I sighed, then walked briskly around it. "Whatever."
After that, I just ignored it. I kept walking, and it kept following and growling. Again, I didn't really care.
"Looks like you have a Ripper Demon stalking you."
I glanced up at the trees where the male voice had come from without stopping. "Oh, is that what it's called? How infinitely clever. Hello."
"Hi," said the voice.
A minute passed.
"What, you're going to just ignore me?"
"I'm not ignoring you. I said hello, didn't I?" I glared halfheartedly at the little demon that was still growling. "Look, piss off already."
"I'm wounded," said my other companion.
"I was talking to Zippo over there. He's beginning to grate my nerves."
"You're not scared?"
"I'm only afraid of heights and spiders."
"Ah."
"Oh, and needles." There was a shudder. "Listen, I'd love to sit and chat over tea, really, but I'm busy."
"With what?"
"I'm stalk- (Damnit, leave me alone!) -ing my buddies."
"Four guys? Really strong auras?"
"Yeah. You see them?"
"Nah, but I can sense them. They're like lighthouses."
"How close are they?"
"Around 25 meters. And they don't know you're following them?"
"Not unless I want them to."
"Wow. Hey, there's someone else here. They're masking their ki pretty well, though."
"How close?"
"About... 14... 11... 6... shit. Watch yourself."
"Eh?" The tree-traveling man's presence had suddenly disappeared- "Eh?" -and a huge net-thing had suddenly come out of nowhere- "Eh?" -and I was suddenly in it. "Shit."
A creepy shadow-guy with what looked like a deformed bazooka stepped stepped out from nowhere. "Good, only three more virgins to go- what?!"
A small throwing scythe-and-chain flew out of, you guessed it, nowhere. I "eek"ed as it whizzed past my ear, slicing through the net before returning to its owner.
"It's rude to attack a lady you just met," commented my savior, aka the tree-traveling man, from behind me. "Oi, whoever you are, your friends are coming."
I "eek"ed again as I felt a strong arm pick me up by my waist. There was a whoosh of huge wings that were probably somehow attached to the arm that was quickly carrying me upward.
The winged somebody deposited me on a branch far too high to be able to jump to it from the ground, and also just high enough from which I wouldn't feel comfortable jumping. "Better keep you out of harm's way, huh?"
"Thanks, but did it half to be so high?"
"Yup. More amusing for me. Here, after your buddies are done with this virgin-napping weirdo, open this." He thrust a small bit of rolled-up paper into my hand and disappeared again.
I heard a fight. I couldn't see it from my perch. Damnit. He did that on purpose.
The fight-y noises stopped after a while, and, assuming it was over, I unrolled my present to find... "KYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" ...a huge spider. It quickly crawled away at the scream that could probably be heard miles away.
"Aya?" came Yusuke's voice.
"Argh!"
"What the hell are you doing here?!"
Hey, there was something written on the paper in sloppy but legible handwriting:
::So, have they found you yet?::
I grumbled to myself, stuffing the note in my pocket before calling out to the gang. "Baking cookies! Just get me down from here!"
~~~
Once we got back to the human world, I got a scolding from Kurama. Luckily, it was interrupted by Botan, who announced that the monster had gotten loose, and was hungry. They had to go right back through the portal.
So what did I do? I followed them, of course.