Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ the Hanyou II: All's Fair in Love and War ❯ Chapter 1- Just Another Day ( Chapter 1 )

A/N- Well, if you haven't read `The Hanyou' which is the Prequel to All's Fair in Love and War, then I suggest you do, otherwise this will not make much sense to you. In other news, I'M SORRY I TOOK SO LONG TO START THIS FIC FOR THOSE OF U WHO WERE COUNTING ON IT!!

Really, the reviews for the Hanyou were touching to me ^_^ you all are my inspiration to do my best! I was surprised I got so many good reviews, considering this duo fic is an OC fic. I hope you like my new chapters as much as you did the old! (Well that felt lame to type…)

 

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho Enterprise—err, wait, uh, Show. I do not own the SHOW…… alright. The show and MANGA…..

 

I hear the wind

Call my name

It calls me back

Home again

Sparks like a fire

A flame that still burns

Yes here

This is where I belong….

Brian Adams: I hear the wind

 

Disclaimer, Disclaimer: Nor do I own the song I just used as an opening….

 

 

 

Chapter 1- Just another Day

 

 

The school bell chimed for the lunch hour to commence and all the high school students poured out of the class rooms for lunch. It was a beautiful spring day with summer just around the corner and Desota Ishtar beamed in the sunlight as she was finally able to step out of the stuffy class room. She winced at the bright sun's harshness on her unprepared eyes and held up a hand above her brow to help her eyes adjust better.

 

“Hey! Kurama!” a girl's voice rang out.

 

Desota ignored it.

 

“KURAMA! Hello! Earth to foreign exchange student!” the school girl waved a hand in front of `Kurama'.

 

“Huh?” Desota blinked and looked up at the girl. Just about everyone in this school was a bit taller than her.

 

The bleach blond girl huffed and put a hand on her hip with a displeased look directed towards the other, smaller girl, “Sheesh, are you that new to our language? I called your name like twice!”

 

`Oh yeah, that's right, I have a different name here…' Desota thought as she mentally kicked herself for a month ago when she covered up for Kuwabara and Kurama when the big idiot shouted the red heads' demon name in a place where everyone knew his HUMAN name. So now everyone knew her as Kurama….

 

Oh how life loves to put twists in your livelihood, ne?

 

 

Desota rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly, “Uh sorry uh…”

 

“It's Reina” the girl reminded.

 

“Reina.., I guess I still gotta get used to the way people pronounce my name here. It doesn't sound so masculine in my home country” she lied, but hey, what could she do in this situation.

 

Kurama had sat down with her the previous few days to go over and over her cover story; she was a girl named Kurama Ishtar that was a foreign exchange student from a mixed culture town in America. That way, they could say just about anything and people wouldn't give it a second thought. Like the way she was wearing a GUYS uniform instead of a girls.

 

Reason for that being Shiori thought she looked adorable in it since it matched her little Suichi's….. And they ordered the wrong one. Personally, Desota really didn't care. She wasn't fond of skirts anyways.

 

“Oh really?” Reina's curiosity perked, “How do you say it in your home country? America isn't it?”

 

“Yes, I live in America. As for how we say it…. Well it's hard to pronounce in Japanese with out looking like an idiot.” Desota laughed and Reina joined her.

 

As the 2 girls walked, a lot of students waved greetings to Desota, who either nodded in return or waved back with a pleasant smile always plastered to her face. Reina was impressed at the young girls' popularity. Wearing the boys uniform should have implied that she was a homosexual, but every one here knew she was no such thing. She simply…. Didn't act like that.

 

“It's pretty amazing how this is only your first day yet you know so many people already.” Reina said while Desota stood with her in the lunch line. She didn't want to seem rude and leave Reina's side since the girl was assigned to show her the ropes around school, but Kurama had her lunch with his own. So she was only keeping the girl company until said `Suichi' arrives in the lunch room with the said lunch.

 

Desota nodded, “This is much different from what I'm used to. I was never this popular before” she only partially lied this time. Being hanyou and all….

 

“Really?” Reina nodded her thanks to the lunch lady as she took her food from over the hot tables and started to lead `Kurama' to her usual area to eat lunch with her friends, “You sure don't show it. Plus, you're sooooo lucky that your host family happens to be the Minamino's! Prince Suichi is a keeper if you ever happen to catch his eye.” She nudged Desota with a wink, “the Prince already seems quite taken with you, too. Is there something I should know?”

 

“Kn-Know??” Desota's aqua blue eyes snapped back to the girl in surprise, “There's nothing to- AH!” She eeped in surprise when she tripped over something and fell on the floor. Guilty giggles came from the table they were passing and Desota turned over to see a particularly snide looking girl with her hand to her mouth as she giggled with an evil gleam in her eye.

 

“Kurama! Are you okay?” Reina set her stuff on the ground and offered to help Desota up.

 

“You're not much to look at are you?” the girl who was the perpetrator of Desota's “accidental” trip oozed out with all innocents.

 

“Depends on ones own opinion” Desota stood up and brushed off her uniform and grinned at the girl with a painful smile, “But since I don't look in the mirror all the time to ask my mirror image what she thinks, I have no say so.”

 

The girl looked as if she was slapped, “Are you saying I do?”

 

“Nope”

 

“Then just what the hell are you suggesting?!”

 

“Nothing.” Desota surged innocently, “I simply answered your question. If I offended you feel free to trip me again. Maybe this time you'll have a reason to. It's quite rude to do so with out one.”

 

The girl was speechless as the hanyou guised as a young human girl bowed her head honorably and turned to follow her escort student.

 

Reina started laughing soon as they took a few steps away from the still in shock table, “Man! Did you see Azusa's face?! She looked like my gold fish!” the girl laughed.

 

Desota smiled and giggled with her new friend when she caught sight of red, “Hey, Reina,”

 

“Hm?” Reina settled down in her spot on the outside bench near the cafeteria doors with a few other students who greeted them.

 

“Suichi has my lunch with his own lunch, so if it's alright with you I'm going to eat with him today?”

 

Reina's smile turned into a smirk, “Sure! You know where our next class is? Oh wait, Prince Suichi is in there too so just follow him. You'll be fine.” She winked.

 

A strange shiver of disturbance shocked through her spine as the human girl clearly showed what she thought she and `Prince Suichi' were to each other.

 

`What is it with everyone?! We're just friends and I just happen to live with him for now!' she wanted to bite out as she made her way over to where Kurama was waiting under one of the shade trees in the school yard, their lunch box in hand.

 

Kurama raised one delicate brow as she approached him, “Making friends fast are we?” he let the amusement dance in his eyes, telling her that he had witnessed that little scene she was forced into back there.

 

Desota blew her black bangs out of her face in a pout, “I don't wanna hear it from you, I'm too hungry right now. So let's eat!” she plopped down on the soft grass and looked up expectantly for him to follow since he still had her food in his hands.

 

Chuckling lightly, Kurama also sat down leaning against the trunk of the tree more graceful than she thought was really needed. He could be such a show off with his grace.

 

`Show off' she thought, but quickly dispelled the thought as he opened up the lid to the lunch to reveal….

 

Herbs on one side and left over beef bento from last night on the other.

 

Desota slumped her shoulders and eyed the meat.

 

`That had better be my side of the lunch…,'

 

 

Kurama smiled in amusement at the play of emotions she was showing to who ever wanted to see, making reading her thoughts as clear as day. Forget the whole Hiei's Jagan eye. There was no need when it came to her.

 

//She's starting to let down her guard again// Yoko purred in the back of their mind like a whisper.

 

For now, Kurama just ignored it. He had other things to attend to. Like keeping Desota from eating his lunch.

 

Kurama snatched away his beef with a small snip of his chop sticks before Desota's plastic fork could even touch them. Desota looked up at him with hurt puppy eyes.

 

“Don't tell me you get to eat food while I am forced to eat…. Grass.” She whined.

 

“Given your condition that GRASS is better for you to start eating for lunch.” Kurama pointed out as he popped a piece of meet in his mouth.

 

Desota glared at him, “Just how is grass better for me than meat?! A baby's gotta have some sort of protein!”

 

She was only on her third month of pregnancy and it seemed that her reproduction rate took after her human mother since she wasn't nearly as heavy as Yumi was at only a month even! Yumi was so big now that she was due at any day now that it made anyone who stood near her look like a twig! She even had to revert to her wolf form as was the custom for the wolf tribe birth; they were always born as their wolf selves. So the mother as such had to revert to her wolf form when her time neared and can't go back until after the pups have been born.

 

“More than efficient to cover the need for protein I'm afraid” Kurama said with a quirky smile.

 

Desota couldn't believe this, “You're seriously not joking about this are you?” she knew he wasn't but just to be sure…. She still might be able to worm her way out of eating grass.

 

“You know I don't joke on this kind of thing.”

 

“Damn you!”

 

“Don't curse on school grounds” Kurama chided her.

 

“Oh, should I walk out the gate, THEN yell it?” Desota was getting irritated now.

 

//YES! I love it when she gets irritated! She gets flustered ten times worse when she's like this!// Yoko cheered.

 

“Suit yourself, however, I must wander, what would Shiori think?” oooh he got her with that one.

 

If there was one woman Desota strove to impress and please, it was Shiori. The woman was the mother Desota never had!.. Well for long anyways.

 

Desota eyed him suspiciously, “This is the thanks I get for covering your hide and taking your name? HA! Do you know what people think now? I don't even realize they called my name so I ignore them and then they think I'm going deaf or something!”

 

“Afternoon Suichi, Hello Deso-ah-Kurama…” it was Kaitou!

 

Like a change of the wind, Desota's entire demeanor changed from frantic to pleasant as she returned their friends greetings, “Afternoon Kaitou! It's been awhile, how have you been?” she asked as he sat down by them on the grass.

 

`Well, we knew her mood swings were going to start kicking in soon.' Kurama sighed.

 

//That doesn't mean it can still be amusing to see her go from her breaking point of insanity to a pleasant little girl in all but 4 seconds// Yoko snorted.

 

Kurama had to hide a chuckle he couldn't suppress with a clearing of his throat.

 

“At the top of my game, as usual. I expected you to be here sooner, Yusuke said you'd join us at school the next week after you all returned, but it's been 3 months and you're just now starting. What happened?” Kaitou asked then lowered his voice, “It wasn't another mission, was it?”

 

Kurama shook his head no, “Hakkuto has kindly taken up our request for his help in watching over her pregnancy. After her first two check-ups with in 3 days, she came down with a fever and Hakkuto said to keep her at home for a while.”

 

“3 months?” Kaitou sounded doubtful.

 

“Shiori kept asking me to go on trips with her and her husband to other cities and even a few different countries to help them pick out wedding designs. Shiori wanted another WOMANS opinion” Desota offered.

 

“Ah, that explains a lot” Kaitou nodded.

 

Kurama snorted and looked pointedly at the herbs he brought for Desota when he caught her eyes.

 

“Fine, I'll eat the grass.” Desota sighed and twisted her fork in the sting like herbs as if it were spaghetti,

 

“Don't worry; I added some other spices to make them taste better.” Kurama over exadurated when he caught her suspicious look as she sniffed the food before bringing it to her mouth to eat.

 

He nodded his approval when he saw that she was indeed eating what he wanted her to and started on his own lunch, only to find it half gone, “What the-,”

 

Desota giggled as she popped the last bit of stolen meat in her mouth with a content sigh, “Now that's food!” at her side, Desota was reaching in her side bag and it looked like she was stroking something in there…. It was purring.

 

`Kyo!' Kurama glared at the hole in the bag where he knew Kyo was watching him. Satisfied when he heard a startled `Kai!'.

 

Kaitou laughed heartily at the light banter between the two and looked around to see he wasn't the only one amused. Quite a few students were watching discretely even though the tree they were under was considerably far enough away from the crowds of students.

 

“You two really do act like a couple” Kaitou laughed even harder when Desota jolted and blushed madly.

 

“Cut it out!” She snapped at him, “Do you want the whole school to hear you!”

 

“Too late.” Kurama nodded to their audience known as the student body of their high school.

 

Desota groaned as she saw one face that was screaming Murder on her soul while another, more pleasantly known face smirked amusedly. Perfect.

 

Not only was she surrounded by match makers at home and near the gang, they were all over here too!

 

Well, excluding Azusa and the `Official Prince Suichi's Fan Club' table. It was Azusa, right?

 

Desota sighed, it mattered not. This was still going to some how be harder than the whole Sensui episode. Something deep in her gut told her that much.

 

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The young lord draped in his throne tapped his clawed hands broadly on the granite stone armrest. This was starting to be a bore to him.

 

“All this power between the four of us and NO BODY'S EVEN TRYING TO WADGE A WAR!?” The young lord slammed his fist against the said armrest in a burst of annoyance.

 

His advisors rushed to calm him.

 

“My lord! You do understand that if any of the four lords such as yourself should try to provoke war it wouldn't make any difference! You're all too evenly matched!” his more intellectual advisor said.

 

“Raizen of the North is falling sicker and sicker as we speak and his son can't hope to bring up his power! Why don't we attack only their lands and use their forces with ours to take on Yomi and Mukuro?” another advisor who was all for the military barked.

 

“No you fool! We can't do that! Raizen's armies are only loyal to him! If we kill him, we must kill or be killed by them! And then Yomi and Mukuro will clean up what's left of us!” yet another voice of reason came into play, “We should just wait and-,”

 

“WE'VE BEEN WAITING OVER 200 YEARS!” the military one barked.

 

The young lord rubbed his temples to ease out of the impending headache.

 

“SILENCE!” he snapped.

 

Not a soul spoke or moved.

 

“Forgive me” he sighed and sagged back in his chair, “I am impatient is all. Our top priority is not with this war, it is to unite our clans so we may over take this war into our hands. To do that, I must have my sister at him side.”

 

“Why is that again?” one of the advisors asked.

 

“The other clans know of her existence now with her appearance in Demon world once again. To rule, I must have contact with all of my family and she is all I've got!.... besides my little Neko lover that is…” he purred at the mention of his sexy little bed Kitten he loved with all his heart.

 

“Sir?” one of the braver advisors dared to bring him out of his pleasant fantasy.

 

“Hm? What was I just saying?” he blinked his bright blue eyes owlishly.

 

“Our top priority?”

 

“Ah, yes! We need Desota to return to our courts if we are to rule all the separated clans in our land of the East.” The young lord was straight back in business.

 

“She also needs to be mated now since she is of the age,” one of his older advisors added.

 

“Do not fret about that. I have chosen someone who is more than capable of winning her heart.” The Lord clapped his hands, “Show in our suitor for our princess.”

 

The valets led in a tall, very handsome Kitsune with long red hair that was in a low pony tale (think of Rurouni Kenshin style). He wore all black in his robes with a matching cloak over him. His boots clicked in an aristocratic way was he seemed to glide into the room. His black fox ears and tail marked him as a Kitsune and had sliver tips. He bowed lowly to honor his lord.

 

“My lord has summoned me?” he asked.

 

“Gentlemen, meet Jaden, my future half brother-in-law.” The young lord introduced.

 

Eyebrows shot up impressed with the way the youth presented himself, but they nearly fainted when they heard the young foxes name.

 

“JADEN?!” the intellectual one bristled in surprise. His own Kitsune fur ruffled up, “But Sire! You do realize that this Jaden is not really…. Known to be loyal to his females! Is putting him with your sister really a good idea when you are trying to up hold the court?!”

 

“As I said, Jaden will be my future Brother-in-Law. He has been my friend since the beginning, and besides, he knows Desota from when we were all kids in my old man's ruling time.”

 

“May Lord Dehora rest in peace” all the members of the young lord's personal staff muttered at once at the mention of their fallen leader.

 

“I still don't think he'll-,” the stiff advisor was cut off when Jaden decided to speak for himself.

 

“I have no doubt in my mind that I shall dazzle my future mate in front of the courts regardless of any….. Hassle I may come across in winning her affection.” Jaden didn't even look up as he stayed in his slight bow with his eyes closed in an up handed way, “once I win her, I don't plan on letting her go so quickly. I'm in need of a breeding partner as it is to further my line. So I assure you I will not do anything to upset her affection for me.”

 

The young lord chuckled at his shocked to silence advisors expressions, “You're always so amusing, Jaden. It makes me miss you around here. It's good that you've come back to us for a rather extended visit.”

 

Jaden finally looked up to reveal his steel gray eyes, “It has been far too long, Joseph, since we have been on a raid together.”

 

“Much to be missed, ne?” the Lord known as Joseph chuckled.

 

“Where is my lady in waiting?” Jaden looked around curiously.

 

“She is currently in the human world and we suspect that since Yomi has had a close eye on some of her closer associates there, that he will try and bring her to him as a way of getting shall we say…. An old friend to see things his way?”

 

“Yomi plans to kidnap her?”

 

“Aye,” Joseph nodded.

 

“And we're just idly waiting for that to happen?”

 

“If we were to take her away from the place she is so in element to, do you honestly think she'll do anything willingly to help us?”

 

“I could get her willing enough.” Jaden let a perverted smirk grace his lips as his pearl white fang poked out of his lip.

 

“We need her trust, not lust.” Joseph dead panned his old friend who shrugged unfazed, “Once Yomi has taken her prisoner, he will turn his full attention on getting that … human guy… what's his name?” the lord turned to one of his advisors.

 

“From what we've been able to gather, he's Suichi Minamino, the avatar soul and shell of the spirit Kitsune himself, Yoko Kurama.” One replied as he read off from a background sheet.

 

“Yoko?” Jaden smirked, “So she's involved with that white bunny? I heard she was carrying his kit unknowingly, the old man must be slipping.”

 

Joseph gave his friend a `don't go there' look, “The situation concerning that is more delicate and as such, you are to treat it that way.”

 

Jaden cocked an amused brow while one of his black fox ears twitched in interest, “Very well, Joey, I'll play along” the black rogue Kitsune nodded his acceptance to the condition, “How ever, due to the circumstances, you know I'll want to size up the competition,”

 

“You'll get your chance to look over Yoko Kurama when the opportunity arises.” Joey chuckled.

 

The court doors opened up wide and another Kitsune darted in. he had golden fur and short spiky hair that often gave him the nick name `golden Rooster head'. He was adorned in black ninja like cloths with a black bandana holding his short hair back while his bangs shot up in front of him in the aforementioned Rooster-like way. His silver eyes matched that of Jaden's, marking the younger Kitsune the younger cousin of the infamous rouge Kitsune. The golden Kitsune approached the throne and bowed on one knee with a fist resting on his knee and the other bracing the ground in respect.

 

“Sire! I've returned from Yomi's lands with the information you requested sir!” the young Kitsune announced.

 

“Fucking shit, Ryoga!” Joey's ears flattened to his head at the over zealous volume the kit used to announce himself, really, the adolescent kit needed to tone it down sometimes seeing as he was already 119 years old now, “You have a loud voice for a spy!” he looked the kit over irritated and noticed he seemed out of breath, “You decided to run cross country on your way back? You look about ready to collapse.”

 

“I'm afraid that I had to out run a few guards due to my lack of focus on my mission, sir.” Ryoga admitted.

 

“You led them here?” Jaden snided at his younger cousin.

 

Ryoga sent him an evil glare, “NO! I'd never do that to my clan and lord! I had to out maneuver them away from our lands so I didn't lead them here, that's why I'm out of my fucking breath you hooligan!”

 

Jaden raised an amused brow at the new nick name.

 

“What is it you bring me?” Joey cut off anything he knew Jaden wanted to say to get the younger, fiery kit rialed up.

 

“Yomi plans to make contact with Yoko Kurama tonight using a spirit orb message. He is sending three of his own low ranking men to deliver it and plans on delivering it close to Kurama's human home so they can get a visual on you sister.” Ryoga reported.

 

“Really now….,” Joey smirked, “Yomi wants to see Desota for himself? Hm…. I do hate to see the old bastard get what he wants, but if we want our plans to work, we need him to get a hold of her. Yet we also have yet to establish our concerns in this. Until now we have idly watched the other 3 lords do as they wish. In order to become part of this, we need to riel one of them up and who better than to the patient Yomi?” Joey smirked.

 

“You want to anger him?!” one of the advisors gasped what they were all thinking, “My lord are you wishing war on us that soon? We aren't unified yet!”

 

“Who said anything about angering that blind old bat?” Joey gave a pointed look at them to shut up before turning to Jaden who was starting to catch on, “Jaden wants to meet this Kurama, and we don't really want Yomi thinking he's the only one who knows about my half sisters relationshjp with his old friend he wishes to recruit. Jaden will go and head off the messengers, take the message and deliver it himself to Kurama personally. I do love to shake people up just before the good parts come.”

 

Jaden smirked at his lord and very close friends' suggestion, “I'll take my leave then and go say Hello.”

 

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Youwant cheesy cookie dough ice cream, Desota's stomach growled, topped with pickles and mustard

Sauce…..

 

Desota had to cover her mouth before she threw up, “I don't even like Pickles….” She thought aloud.

 

“Let me guess,” Kakoda said as he read the new manga he had borrowed from the library at school, “another one of your weird food cravings?”

 

Desota smiled innocently.

 

Kakoda and his father ((will someone please tell me their last name and the dad's name!!)) were staying with them now that the wedding was only a week away or so.

 

Kakoda shook his head at her pleading smile. The 13 year old knew what she wanted, “The answer is no, this time, Dessy. You know it's too late for me to go out by myself. It's like 10 o'clock already.”

 

Desota's shoulders sagged. She was hungry!

 

“I'm sure Suichi wouldn't mind going out to the store to get you what you want.” Shiori offered, “I'm sorry we don't have anything really around here. I haven't been shopping lately with the wedding and all.”

 

“That's fine,” Desota quickly reassured as she picked up Kyo from where he was laying on the couch beside her between herself and Kakoda, who sat on the other end next to the lamp, “I'm sure Suichi'll do it.”

 

Shiori and her new family watched the girl walk off and down the hall towards Suichi's room where her son was probably doing homework.

 

Kakoda sighed when he heard the door open and close to Suichi's room, “You sure this cant be a double wedding?” he turned to his father and step mother.

 

Shiori shook her head, “I think something drastic happened on that field trip they took, and that's why there's a bit of space between them. But they seem to be picking up fairly quickly again with their relationship. They've never really even started to go out before anyways. It's a little early to be wishing for a wedding with a child on the way.”

 

“Maybe he doesn't want to press the matter until after the baby is already born?” Shiori's fiancée asked.

 

His son and fiancée shrugged.

 

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