Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Rock My World ❯ Shinigami And The Golden Seal ( Chapter 29 )

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DC-chan: It’s almost been a year since I started this fic *sniffles* Oh how dear sweet time flies by.

Seraph: Cool beans.

DC-chan: So how was everybody’s Halloween? I went trick or treating with some friends, I was a Reaver and I was all covered in fake blood and carried around a plastic machete! My dad wore a gorilla suit with this really scary wolf mask and jumped out at kids scaring the shit out of A LOT of toddlers and teenagers. I laughed my ass off.

Kurama: Isn’t that mean?-to scare little kids.

DC-chan: Hey, at our house you gotta work if you want the free candy. Our house has a reputation for being scary, it’s pretty sweet.

Disclaimer: I don’t own YYH, I’m merely torturing the characters for the time being.

I only own Kira and the other OCs.

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Chapter 29 Of Rock My World

Shinigami And The Golden Seal

Kira fidgeted, trying to control her flaring temper for the moment. She couldn’t believe what Koenma was saying to her. He was trying to explain that he had a Shinigami remove her soul so he could talk to her urgently about something very important, but what it was she didn’t know because she was refusing to listen to him babbling like an idiot.

“Kira! Are you even listening to what I’m saying.”

She put her hands over her ears and shook her head, “Not one word.” She began humming a tune while trying not to pay him any mind. He had already pushed most of her buttons and was now really agitating her.

“It was for your own good Kira,” he said breathlessly while standing up in his chair and pounding his fists on the desk. “You must understand, ever since you…’embraced’ your demonic powers Reikai must take certain precautions. We have to place a seal on you so you don’t accidentally kill someone or harm someone which will make lots of paperwork for me.” And he had enough paperwork as it was.

She lowered her hands from her ears and glared at him angrily, “Doushite? If I’m gonna kill someone you know it wouldn’t be on accident.” Kira huffed out her cheeks at him and folded her arms across her chest and turned away from him. She just wanted to go back to Ningenkai as soon as possible.

“You will be returned back to your body AFTER we place the seal on you!” He informed her loudly. “This must be done or else you’ll have no control of your-”

“How come Hiei and Kurama don’t have seals then? Couldn’t they accidentally kill some ningen as well?” She asked stubbornly while tapping her foot impatiently on the ground. “And why the hell do I have to be out of body for this?”

Koenma sat back down now that she was kind of settling down. At least she was hearing him out instead of ignoring him now. “They can control themselves, you on the other hand will have problems trying to keep your psychic prowess and youki in check because they’re very unstable. And due to your near death experience your powers have increased dramatically and you’re now considered almost an A class youkai though since you can’t control any of your powers it’s more like C class…” he trailed off when he noticed she was giving him a dirty look.

She rolled her teeth over her bottom lip then faced him, still slightly irritated at this situation. “So after you put this seal on me I can go back into my body?”

“Hai.” He nodded sternly wondering what she was thinking.

She walked over to his desk and slammed her hand down on it, “Well then, let’s get this over with!”

Koenma sweat dropped at her forced smile before pressing down a red button on his desk and saying, “Bring in the Kogane Okuin, onegai and make the necessary preparations for Kira to return back to her body.” He directed his attention back to her, “This won’t take long.”

She tilted her head to one side with a blank expression, “Kogane Okuin?” Then she tilted it to the other side, “Necessary preparations?” This sounded quite suspicious to her.

“Ano…” he rubbed the back of his neck, “the seal is kind of like a tattoo and well…it might be painful. Part of the reason you’re in your spirit form instead of your body is to make putting the seal on less painful, but it will also appear on your physical body.”

“I’m too young for a tattoo!” She said loudly. “Kaa-san would kill me if she saw it!”

“That’s your problem then.” He said nonchalantly. “Putting the seal on will only take a moment, but it will sting while you’re in your physical form for a few days. Just ice it during that time and it will be fine.”

The door to his office swung right open and Jorge walked in carrying a small black box in his arms, it couldn’t have been more than eight by six inches. He walked up right next to Kira and put the box carefully on the desk, “Here you are Koenma-sama.” He opened the box with trembling hands to reveal a stamp in the shape of a perfect circle resting on a red velvet pillow. It was glowing and Kira could feel the power coming off of it.

The gold stamp had some illegible kanji written in calligraphy craved into it and around the edges of the circle was a design that looked similar to intertwining vines. It was very shiny too, it reflected the light that was in the room.

“Spiffy,” she whispered breathlessly. She began wondering if Toshihiro had created it since he was the only person she knew who could possible make someone so beautiful and delicate looking.

Her brown eyes watched intently as Koenma picked the stamp up daintily, “Hold out your hand.”

She blinked, but obliged without questioning. She was too transfixed on the golden to stamp to protest.

He then pressed it into the palm of her left hand and she immediately felt a strange, warm sensation in her hand. It tingled slightly and ribbons of light shot out and wrapped themselves around her body. They then constricted around her limbs before fading away slowly…

Kira was still staring at her palm until she realized Koenma was placing the seal back into the black box in which Jorge had brought it in. The seal wasn’t gold on her hand like she thought it was going to be, it had turned a bright red. Hopefully her mother would never catch a glimpse of this since it was quite noticeable while it was this shade of color.

“And you were throwing a fit over it,” Koenma rolled his eyes at her as Jorge left his office with the box tucked under his arm.

Kira snapped out of her daze and narrowed her eyes, “Well, it’s upsetting to die twice you know!” She put her hands on her hips, “I thought I was dead for good this time. You just yank me out of my body for something like this and you think I‘m supposed to be skipping for joy with all the little munchkins and butterflies in some flowery meadow or something!”

“Putting the seal on you would’ve hurt in your human form,” he repeated sitting back down and closing his eyes. “Would’ve been considerably painful…”

“I’m not some fragile vase,” she retorted fiercely while furrowing her brows at him. “Why does everybody think I can’t handle things or protect myself? I’m totally capable of managing myself yet nobody else thinks so!”

“Calm down.” He rubbed his temple, she was giving him a headache with all her yelling.

She pouted at him then opened her mouth like she was going to say something, but thought better of it and said nothing. It didn’t take a genius to see she was still quite upset…well, that’s an understatement. Kira was actually pissed off. Very pissed off. Everyone expected her to comply with them or to be some helpless delinquent. It was all very frustrating for her and this was one time too far in her book.

“Are you calm now?” Koenma asked warily as he eyed her. He could see something boiling behind her quivering eyes and her knuckles were white from clutching her hands into tight fists.

“Iie,” she hissed softly. Her checks were flushed from resentment. She had been wanting to say many things that had been on her mind for a long time. Maybe it was the sheer fact that she had been around Kurama and he had his own ways of keeping her from getting annoyed like this, but she could see from the expression on Koenma’s face that he wasn’t going to answer any of her questions.

Just then, as the tension in the office became almost unbearable, the doors burst open and a sobbing Botan rushed in with the Shinigami, Mitsukai, floating slowly in behind her.

“Kira!” The blue haired ferry girl gasped.

Kira relaxed a little, “Hey.”

Botan hugged her and cried, “You’re alive! I mean…you’re okay! I was so worried when you died, everyone was about to kill Mitsukai for doing what she did to you, but no one really had the energy left to…”

The Shinigami gave Botan a reproachful look and said, “As if they could beat me. They wouldn’t be able to scratch me because I’m not of Ningenkai, Reikai or Makai.” She paused to sigh deeply, “Besides the baka is okay, isn’t she?” She pointed at Kira, “She’s still a filthy hanyou though…”

“Wanna say that again?” Kira shouted as Botan then struggled to restrain her as she tried to punch Mitsukai. “Let me go Botan!”

“We’ll…be going now…” Botan laughed uncertainly as she pulled Kira out of the office hastily. “Bye, Koenma-sama and…” she glowered at the Shinigami before smiling again.

Mitsukai and Koenma watched as the doors shut behind them.

“I’m never doing that again…” Mitsukai said quietly. Her dislike for humans and youkai alike was obviously apparent in her tone of voice and the coldness in her eyes remained. “No one is worth this much trouble. I don‘t know why you bother with her. She‘s just a child, a very naïve child.”

Koenma put his fingertips together as she stared at her from the other side of his desk. He exhaled heavily before slumping back into his chair, “I’m afraid her problems are just beginning…”

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Kira felt a strange sensation. It was as if her body was suddenly bathed into warm water and pulled back out. Her eyes flickered open and she saw a white ceiling above her with cracks in it. She sat up, but her muscles ached so she used her hands to help push herself up into a sitting position. She scanned the room in silence, it was her bedroom. She threw the comforter off of her to see that she was wearing her night clothes consisting of a large t-shirt with flannel lounge pants. Kira could hear voices downstairs talking loudly and she walked over to the door and pressed her ear against it to listen and see if she could recognize any of the voices.

“More tea…Kurama?” It was her mother’s trembling voice.

“Hai. Arigatou gozaimasu Kamiyama-san.”

“Do you want tea too, Hiei?”

“Hn. Fine.”

“I’ll have some!”

“Your stupidity will poison it…”

“You want me to kick your ass?”

“Kuwabara be quiet! You‘ll wake up Kira with the racket you‘re making!” Genkai shouted over all of them.

Kira craftily opened the door so it wouldn’t make a sound and tiptoed over to the balcony so she could see what was going on in the living room. Everyone was huddled around the kotatsu drinking tea which her mother was pouring shakily, clearly not used to having youkai as a guest in her household by the way her hands were trembling when she was pouring the tea. Rika then turned on her heel and left for the kitchen to get more cups.

“Hey! Kamiyama’s awake!” Kuwabara was the first to notice her standing there.

“About time too, you were out for five days!” Yusuke said grinning smugly as he was sitting next to Keiko.

Kira wondered how all of them could fit around the kotatsu, but walked sullenly down the stairs, “Don’t tell me all of you were here for five days?”

“Of course not,” Yusuke said briskly. It just so happens to be a three day weekend and there was nothing better to do.

“It’s a three day weekend?” Kira blinked stupidly.

“How did you know that?” Yusuke skewed his head at her. “Even I go to school more than you do, but it was a last minute thing. The earthquake that Sagan caused almost destroyed half the school. But how did you know that?”

“I thought…” Kira trailed off. How did she know? She could of sworn she heard him say it aloud or maybe it was a lucky guess. “I thought you said it.” She blurted while squeezing in between Kurama and Genkai.

Yusuke gave her a skeptical look, “I didn’t…”

“It’s just your mind reading ability, nothing to worry about.” Genkai informed her while taking a sip of her warm tea. I knew this was going to happen once she recovered, with or without that seal there’s some things it can’t contain.

“Oh…okay…” Kira bowed her head before jumping to her feet and looking wildly while flailing her arms around at Genkai. “MY MIND READING ABILITY?! When the hell did that happen?”

“Cool! Hey, Kamiyama!-read my mind!” Kuwabara said standing up.

Kira stared bluntly at Kuwabara for a few moments. “I’m not really getting anything…”

Yusuke sniggered so hard that tea came out of his nose and Kurama chuckled lightly. Hiei smirked in satisfaction.

Genkai grabbed her hand and indicated the red seal on her palm, “That only restricts your demonic power, not your psychic ability which has FINALLY awoken to its full potential. About time too, I was starting to think you’d be a complete failure.”

“That’s not very nice Ba-san.” Kira muttered out of the corner of her mouth. She sat back down cross-legged and with her shoulders hunched over.

“So you’re feeling better?” Kurama asked once things had somewhat settled down.

“I suppose. How are you?”

“I’m fine,” he smiled gently at her. He then put his hand in his pocket and fished out the necklace, “Isn’t this yours?”

“You found it? I thought it was gone.”

“Here, lean forward.” She obliged while blushing as he fastened it around her neck. “Are you going to finally how to use that thing properly now?”

“Perhaps,” she grinned evilly at him.

“I’ll help you if you still want to.” He offered as he finished his tea and placed the empty cup back on top of the kotatsu.

“Really?”

“Sure, what are friends for?” Although it will probably still take her awhile to get the hang of it.

She punched his arm roughly, “I heard that kitsune!”

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Kotetsu Okuin = gold seal

DC-chan: And I’m going to end that there…I’m just so tired. I have soccer tryouts all week and it poured rain the entire tryout on Monday (5:30-7:30pm). I was soaking when my dad came to pick me up. I usually like the rain too…but when you’re freezing your ass of in it for two hours while running 6 FRIGGIN LAPS in 12 minutes it kinda makes things hard…

NEXT CHAPTER: Mourning Epitaph

Seraph: What happened to Kokuei?

DC-chan: That will kinda be addressed in the next chapter…so don’t worry BE HAPPY!

ROCK ON!

And thank you for the reviews! They mean a lot to me and it really makes me happy especially with all my family problems going on and soccer tryouts…