Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ The Season of the Crystal Feather ❯ The Queen of Pillow Fights ( Chapter 5 )

Disclaimer: I own only Autumn, Freckles, Nuala, and Thorn.

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The Queen of Pillow Fights:

"Now what do we do?" Autumn asked Kurama.

Kurama shrugged, "Nuala only told us to find you three, she didn't tell us what to do after that..."

"Must...fight...urge..." Autumn said as she twitched.

"Don't you dare suggest what I think you're going to suggest..." Flash threatened.

Autumn opened her mouth, "Let's...!"

"That's it!" Flash hit Autumn over the head with a metal pipe that she pulled from the inside of her trench coat.

"OW!" Autumn yelled as she held her head in pain.

Yusuke moved away, "Damn Koenma and his stupid missions! Why do we have to work with these violent people?!"

"Now Yusuke, I'm sure they aren't always like this." Kurama said.

"No, we're not. Usually we're worse." Hinote nodded.

Yusuke groaned, "I quit!"

"You can't quit!" Koenma yelled as he appeared.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S GOING TO KILL US ALL!!!!!!!" Autumn screamed and pointed at Koenma.

Koenma turned to glare at her. "Who the hell are you?"

"Now, that's not very nice. I think little Mr. Grumpy Pants needs to have his mouth washed out with soap." Autumn scolded.

Koenma was fuming. Yusuke burst out laughing. Kuwabara also started laughing. Kurama hid a laugh behind his hand. Hiei smirked. Hinote and Flash pointed at Koenma and laughed. Margaret laughed too. Tundra and I were watching from the greatest distance allowed by our leashes and wondering what was going on. Terminator was nearby watching in amusement.

"How...dare...you! Do you know who I am?!?" Koenma yelled at Autumn.

"Grumpy from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?" Autumn asked with an innocent smile.

Her comment caused more laughter from the group. Kurama was still fighting to hide his laughter and Hiei was still just smirking. Koenma looked like he was about to kill Autumn.

"Humans are so strange sometimes." I said to Terminator.

Terminator shrugged, "Yeah, but they provide us with entertainment so I'm not complaining."

"Calm down, I know who you are. You're Koenma, Prince of Spirit World. Yadda yadda, Irresponsible brat, blah blah, works people until they die, yakkity yak, doesn't do any work himself, etc." Autumn grinned.

Koenma was about to yell at Autumn more when Kurama stepped between them. Koenma glared at Kurama. Autumn stood on the tips of her toes to stick her tongue out at Koenma and make faces at him over Kurama's shoulder.

"Koenma, this is Autumn. She's one of the three people Nuala sent us here to find. Over there is Hinote and Flash." Kurama introduced.

"Hey." Hinote waved.

Flash crossed her arms and glared, "I have better things to be doing than talking to a floating baby."

"I AM NOT A BABY!" Koenma yelled.

Autumn opened her mouth to speak but Kurama put his hand over her mouth. "Don't cause any more trouble, ok?" he asked her.

Autumn brought her hand to her forehead as a salute to show Kurama she promised not to cause trouble. He removed his hand from her mouth and decided to stay near her just in case she forgot her promise. Yusuke had finally stopped laughing. He wiped some tears from his eyes.

"So, why are you here, Koenma?" Yusuke asked.

Koenma relaxed a bit. "Well, I'm here because we have a lead that might help you discover the location of the crystal. You see, there's an ex-thief in Makai that lives near a town where a lot of bounty and treasure hunters gather. The town itself is too dangerous for you to enter especially since a lot of demons want Kurama and Hiei dead."

"Why would anyone want my poor Hiei to die?" Margaret asked.

"Because they're 'traitors'. They side with humans. You watched the Dark Tournament on the show, you should know that." Hinote said.

Koenma nodded, "That's true. As I was saying, the town is too dangerous for you to enter. This ex-thief knows all the gossip of the town so you have to go convince her to help you."

"What if she doesn't want to?" Kuwabara asked.

Yusuke punched his fist into his other hand, "Then we beat her up until she tells us what we want to know."

"Urameshi! You can't hit girls! It isn't nice!" Kuwabara yelled.

"Neither is you walking around in public without a paper bag over your head, but you do it anyway." Flash pointed out.

Yusuke laughed at Kuwabara. Autumn and Hinote snickered. Kurama bit his lip to keep from smiling and Hiei smirked. Margaret frowned because Hiei seemed to like Flash better than her.

Terminator grinned, "That's my human!"

"ANYWAYS, she has to help you because it's part of her punishment for being a thief." Koenma nodded. "Now, I'm going to be sending all of you to Makai near her house. Remember to be on your best behavior! Don't do anything to make me look bad.

"Oh, you don't need our help for that." Flash smirked.

Autumn waved her arms in the air, "I wanted to say that!!!"

"Then why didn't you?" Hinote asked.

Autumn looked over at him, "Because I promised Kurama I wouldn't cause any more trouble..."

Hinote opened his mouth. Autumn pointed at him, "No. Bad monkey, don't you dare say what you're about to say."

"Wasn't gonna say a word." Hinote put his hands up palms out and shook his head.

Koenma rolled his eyes and snapped his fingers. A blinding light surrounded us and a moment later it faded. We found ourselves surrounded on all sides by a forest. Above us the sky was reddish in color with black clouds. I supposed that we must have been in Makai.

"So where's the demon?" Yusuke asked looking around.

"Don't you listen? Koenma said he was going to send us 'near her house'. That means we probably have to walk for a bit to find it." Autumn explained.

"Makes sense." Yusuke nodded.

We walked through the forest for a few minutes until Hinote and Tundra suddenly stopped at the same time. They both stuck their noses in the air and sniffed. They then both got excited and looked back at the rest of us.

"FOOD!" They both yelled, though the humans didn't understand what Tundra was saying. Boy and dog then ran straight through the forest in the direction of the smell.

Yusuke and Kuwabara quickly followed. The rest of us stood there blinking. I turned to Terminator to see if the cat had anything to say.

"I guess animals grow to resemble their humans..." Terminator said.

I shook my head, "But then that would mean that I'm an idiot! I am not an idiot!"

"You just keep telling yourself that, little bunny foo-foo." Terminator said with a smirk.

I glared at the cat, "At least I don't choke on my own fur."

"Should we go after them?" Margaret asked.

"The question is...Do we want to?" Autumn looked around at the others.

Flash shrugged, "We could always leave them to get killed. Maybe what they smell is a house made out of candy and gingerbread with an old witch waiting inside to feed them sweets until they become fat enough to eat."

"Well in that case..." Autumn picked me up and jogged after Hinote, Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Tundra. "Gingerbread, here I come!"

Flash sighed in frustration and rubbed her forehead. "I should've never mentioned sweets."

"We should go make sure they stay out of trouble." Kurama suggested as he and the others started following us.

Autumn and I caught up with Hinote, Yusuke, Tundra, and Kuwabara as they were standing staring at a house in a small meadow. The house was made of wood. A mural type thing of a forest was painted on the sides which made it sort of blend in with the surroundings. The roof of the house was painted a light green to make it look like grass from above.

"Wow...I wanna live here!" Autumn whined.

"But it's so small." Flash pointed out as she walked up.

"I bet it's bigger than it looks. Besides, who'd wanna live in a big mansion? Only snooty, stuck up brats live in mansions...eh heh heh...I mean...um...only people who live in mansions live in mansions?" Autumn laughed nervously and looked at Flash.

Flash glared at Autumn, "Just stop talking, you'll sound smarter."

"Meep?" Autumn tilted her head to the side.

"I'm confused. How can you sound smart if you're not talking?" Kuwabara asked.

Hinote shrugged, "Don't try and make sense of what Flash says because you'll never figure it out."

"BAKA!" Flash yelled as she hit Hinote over the head with the metal pipe.

Kurama sighed and walked up to the house. There was a bronze statue of a dog with horns and fangs next to the door. It was up to Kurama's waist in height. One of its paws was raised and out. There was an old bronze bell hanging above the dog's tail. I assumed that pushing the dog's paw down caused the tail to go up which would ring the bell. Kurama reached out for the dog's paw.

"Wait!!" Autumn yelled as she ran up to him and put me down at her feet.

Kurama turned to look at her, "Yes?"

"Let me do it!" Autumn pleaded. She made her eyes look big and made her mouth into a cute little pout. "Please?"

Kurama smiled sweetly, "All right."

"YAY!" Autumn reached out and pushed the dog's paw down.

As I suspected, the tail moved up and hit the bell causing it to ring. The bell had a pretty sound that reminded me of Autumn's birds. Autumn was smiling happily like a child with a new toy. She was watching the bell swing back and forth. Every time it swung it made a sound. Kurama hid a chuckle behind his hand as he watched Autumn acting like a little kid.

After a moment the door opened to reveal a girl with black hair that reached down to her waist and curious violet eyes. She was a little bit taller than Kurama and she looked to be about 18 years old. Two black leathery dragon wings sprouted from her back and a long black dragon tail was swishing behind her as she studied us. She was wearing red tank top with a black dragon on it and black pants with silver fire up the side of her left leg.

Kurama's eyes widened when he saw her, "Thorn?!"

"Do I know you?" The dragon, Thorn, asked as she tilted her head to the side.

Kurama pointed at himself, "I'm Youko Kurama."

"Wha...? Oh! Oh you are! I'd heard you had taken a human form! And you do look just like that picture the one demon had when he was telling everyone at the tavern to hunt you down and kill you for being a traitor. I completely forgot all about that! Ha-ha! I feel stupid now!" Thorn laughed and rubbed the back of her head.

"Kurama, please explain." Yusuke said to the redhead.

Kurama was about to answer when Thorn interrupted. She wrapped her arms around Kurama and pulled him close to her. She held him close to her and smiled widely at the rest of us. Kurama blinked in confusion.

"What's there to explain? I was one of Kurama's many lovers!" Thorn stated.

Yusuke grinned, "Kurama, you player!"

"Who'd have thought that goody goody Kurama would have such a dark secret." Kuwabara laughed.

Kurama looked flustered, "I'm not! I didn't...I don't know what she's talking about!"

"No use trying to deny it, Kurama. We know it's true." Yusuke said.

Autumn was glaring at Thorn. Hinote and Flash took a step away from Autumn. I looked around confused. A raised eyebrow was the only indication that Hiei had even been paying attention to the conversation. Yusuke and Kuwabara were laughing.

Thorn laughed and let go of Kurama, "Actually it's not true, I just wanted to see how you'd react."

"You mean you were lying?" Yusuke looked disappointed.

Thorn grinned, "Yep!"

"So how do you really know each other?" Autumn asked. She was no longer glaring.

Thorn's smile widened, "I was part of Youko's thieving group! My brother was too! We were orphans so Youko took us in and raised us. He taught me everything I know about stealing!"

"Youko raised children?" Autumn asked, trying very hard not to laugh.

Thorn nodded happily as Kurama rubbed his forehead in frustration. Autumn burst out laughing along with Flash, Hinote, Margaret, Yusuke and Kuwabara. Hiei, not surprisingly, looked bored.

"Youko Kurama raising children! Imagine him wearing a motherly pink apron with flowers on it and holding a baby that he's feeding with a bottle!" Hinote choked out between laughs causing more laughter to erupt from them.

'Those little...ARGH! Wait until I get my hands on them! They are so plant food!'Youko yelled in Kurama's head.

And that's exactly why I never let you out, Youko. Kurama said to his demon half.

"So who are the rest of you?" Thorn asked us.

Yusuke stopped laughing, "I'm the spirit detective, Yusuke Urameshi, and these are my helpers."

"That's Hiei, Kuwabara, Flash, Hinote, Margaret, Freckles, Tundra, Terminator," Autumn pointed to each of us and then to herself, "And I'm Autumn!"

"Hello, Nice to meet all of you! Especially you! You cute little bunny you!" Thorn said the last part in a baby voice as she kneeled down to ruffle some of my well groomed fur.

"Cute little rabbits always get all the attention! Not fair!" Tundra whined.

Terminator was grooming his paw, "Stop whining, you're annoying me."

Tundra quickly shut up. I was rubbing my head on Thorn's hand and thoroughly enjoying the attention. Thorn noticed my leash and looked up at Autumn.

"Is he your rabbit?" She asked Autumn.

Autumn rolled her eyes, "Unfortunately, yes."

I thumped my feet on the ground and made a displeased sound. Autumn rolled her eyes, "I'm kidding, hairball. Sheesh, you don't have to be so moody all the time."

"Aw...but it makes him look cute to be moody!" Thorn said as she picked me up.

Autumn waved her arm, "No, don't do that! He hates being held by anyone other than me!"

What Autumn said was true. I started kicking and struggling in Thorn's grasp until she finally put me down. She started inspecting her arms for scratches. Meanwhile I hopped behind Autumn while kicking my feet out to show I was mad.

"Sorry about that...I told you he was moody." Autumn rubbed her head.

Hinote muttered to Flash, "He's not the only one around here that's moody."

"What was that?" Autumn said menacingly as she turned to glare at Hinote.

"NOTHING!" Hinote yelled. "Absolutely nothing! I didn't say a word! Ha-ha! No insults were said by me! La la la!" Hinote started dancing around hoping it would throw Autumn off.

"Tundra...your human's a moron." Term said to the dog.

Tundra let his tongue hang out, "Maybe...but he's fun to be around."

"That doesn't change the fact that he's a moron." Term pointed out.

Thorn stepped aside and motioned for us to enter her house. "Come on in! I was just starting to make dinner!"

The humans took off their shoes before we went past Thorn and into her house. The room we entered was sort of like the living room. The walls and ceiling were painted light blue with clouds on them. There was a white fluffy carpet covering the floor. Hanging from the ceiling, were a series of oriental style paper lamps with lit candles inside them. There were some bookcases along the wall on the right. Along the left wall was a cream colored couch with some light blue pillows on it. In front of the couch was a low glass coffee table with some floor pillows around it. The floor pillows were light pink. In the center of the coffee table was a vase with yellow roses in it. Opposite the door we entered through was a door leading into a hallway. Across the hallway from the living room I could see the dining room with the kitchen attached to it on the right.

"Ack! Too happy! My eyes, they burn!" Flash yelled as we walked into the room.

"Did you do all this yourself?" Autumn asked Thorn.

Thorn nodded happily, "I was bored."

"This room scares me..." Hinote said as he, Yusuke, and Kuwabara made their way to sit on the couch.

"This sucks, there isn't a TV." Yusuke complained.

Thorn tilted her head to the side, "Tee vee?"

"It's a human appliance used for entertainment purposes." Kurama explained.

Thorn nodded even though she still didn't really understand. "Well, make yourselves comfortable! I'm going to go check on dinner!" She stated cheerily before walking off to the kitchen.

"There's something unnerving about a person that cheery..." Flash said as she looked around for some place to sit.

Autumn bent down and took me off my leash as Hinote did the same for Tundra. Terminator had never had a leash to begin with. Lucky cat. Hiei went to stand in a corner. Margaret pulled a floor pillow over to sit near Hiei. Kurama sat down on one of the floor pillows. After some hesitation, due to the fact that the floor pillows were pink, Autumn did the same. Flash walked over to the couch.

"Off the couch, knaves, I want to sit down." Flash said to Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Hinote.

Hinote's eyes widened and he gasped. "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU'RE TALKING TO?!? I AM NOT A KNAVE AND I AM NOT GETTING OFF THIS COUCH!!!...Yusuke, Kuwabara...get off the couch!"

"Hey! I am not a knave!" Yusuke yelled at Flash.

Kuwabara nodded, "What Urameshi said!"

"Do you two even know what a knave is?" Autumn asked.

Yusuke and Kuwabara looked at each other and then back at Autumn before shaking their heads 'no'. Autumn sighed, "A knave is a male servant."

Yusuke and Kuwabara glared at Flash. They both stood up as if they would fight her but Flash was no longer standing in front of them. Once they had moved, she had moved to the couch and lay down across it with her feet resting on Hinote. Yusuke and Kuwabara hung their heads in defeat and sat down on floor pillows near Kurama.

"Never argue with Flash. That's one of the first things you have to learn. Unless, of course, you're me or Autumn. We argue with Flash all the time and she hasn't killed us yet." Hinote nodded.

"That's because you two amuse me." Flash stated.

I moved over near Autumn and forced her to pet me. Tundra walked to the kitchen to see if he could get a scrap of food. Term hopped onto the back of the couch and stretched out across it. Thorn came out of the kitchen with tea for everyone. After giving everyone their tea she went back to the kitchen. The time that followed was pretty boring. Hinote had relocated himself to a floor cushion across from Yusuke. He, Yusuke, and Kuwabara were talking about random stuff. Flash had her eyes closed making it seem like she was asleep. Kurama had started to play a game of solitaire with cards borrowed from Yusuke. Autumn was watching the card game. Hiei was glaring at Margaret as she talked endlessly about broccoli.

Thorn came back into the room and sat opposite Kurama on a floor pillow. "So why are all of you here?"

"We're on a mission to find a crystal that was stolen from Koenma. He said you might be able to help us..." Kurama answered as he looked up at her from his card game that he had been stuck in for a while.

"I think I remember hearing something about a demon with a powerful crystal hiding in the mountain range just East of the Mist Mountains." Thorn recalled.

"Yay! Our first real clue!" Autumn declared happily as she picked up one of the cards from Kurama's game and moved it onto another card.

Kurama stared at the cards for a moment, "Now why didn't I see that? Thank you, Autumn."

"No problem!" Autumn smiled. I tilted my head to the side when I noticed that her cheeks were a little pink.

Thorn chuckled. "So, Autumn, do you have a boyfriend?"

"What does that have to do with anything?!" Autumn asked looking quite flustered and embarrassed since everyone was now staring at her and Thorn.

Thorn shrugged. "Just curious since you seem to have a crush on Kurama."

"Ha-ha! That is soooo true! You should see how many Kurama pictures she has on her computer! And..." Hinote was interrupted by an empty tea cup hitting his head.

"No more talking for you!" Autumn said angrily. Her face was somewhat red.

Thorn laughed, "I knew it! Oh, you two would make such a cute couple! Autumn and Kurama, sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-oof!"

"No singing!" Autumn had picked up a pillow from the couch and hit Thorn in the head with it.

Thorn glared at Autumn. Autumn smiled innocently and held the pillow behind her back. "You shouldn't have done that! For I am the queen of pillow fights! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Thorn's maniacal cackling was interrupted by another whack from Autumn's pillow. Thorn picked up a pillow from another couch and began to hit Autumn with it. Thorn and Autumn were laughing while having their pillow fight. Margaret grabbed a pillow and joined in the fight. Tundra began to bark excitedly. I moved near Kurama for safety reasons. The others either watched or ignored the pillow fight.

Hinote sniffed the air, "Hey, is something burning?"

"MY FOOD! Autumn, if any of the food's burnt, I'm blaming you!" Thorn yelled before dropping her pillow and running into the kitchen to check on the food.

Autumn dropped her pillow onto the couch and sat down on the floor pillow across from Kurama. Kurama had resumed his game of solitaire. He looked up at her briefly before making another move. Autumn sighed and rested her chin on the table as she watched Kurama play his game of solitaire. She pointed at a card to move when he paused to look the cards over.

"Stupid cards..." I muttered as I hopped on the table and deliberately messed up the cards.

"Freckles!" Autumn scolded as I started nibbling on one of the cards.

Kurama gently picked me up and moved me onto the floor. He then gathered up the cards and gave them back to Yusuke. Yusuke grumbled as he held up the card that now had bite marks on the top of it.

"I'm sorry!" Autumn said to Yusuke. "He gets really annoyed when people don't pay attention to him!"

Hinote grinned, "Wow, you and Freckles are a lot alike! You both want Kurama's attention!"

"Hi...no...te..." Autumn growled.

Hinote laughed nervously, "Shutting up now!"

"Speaking of fan girls, I think Hiei's about to kill his." Yusuke pointed at Margaret that was clinging to Hiei's leg while Hiei was reaching for his katana.

"Hiei, no!" Kurama yelled as he got up and went to take Hiei's katana away.

Thorn peered through the doorway from the kitchen, "Dinner's ready! Come and get it!"

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For reasons known only to the psycho authoress of DOOM this chapter is lacking in Author's notes. As disappointed/happy as you readers may be because of this author's notes will resume as usual next chapter, unless they get eaten by mutated cheese monsters of cheesy doom. In that case they will resume eventually. Thank you for wasting part of your life reading this pointless message that has no effect on your life whatsoever. You may now go back to your previously scheduled life. Be sure to eat plenty of French fries...with May-o-naise!

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