Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Two Hearts, Two Minds, One Soul ❯ A Month of Pain, A Month of Rest ( Chapter 20 )
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By: Mitsukai no Awai 
Gwen does her final test of being Genkai's apprentice.
Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai / Romance / Angst | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 08.03.2005 | Updated On: 08.03.2005 | Pages: 4 | Words: 3.2K | Visits: 164 | Status: Completed
Gwen does her final test of being Genkai's apprentice.
Anime/Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai / Romance / Angst | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 08.03.2005 | Updated On: 08.03.2005 | Pages: 4 | Words: 3.2K | Visits: 164 | Status: Completed
MNA: Yep! Took a long time rewriting this fic and bringing it over to MM.org, but I get it done. *thinks of all her hw she has to finish*
Carnation: Mitsukai no Awai does not own Yu Yu Hakusho. Only me and Gwen...*sigh*
MNA: When did you get here?
Carnation: 10 seconds ago...
MNA: Oh...*looks around* WE'RE ALL ALONE! T.T
Carnation: *rolls her eyes* Here's the twentieth chapter. Seemed like forever, ne?
MNA: READ AND REVIEW! ONWARD, MARCH!
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Two Hearts, Two Minds, One Soul
Chapter Twenty
A Month of Pain, A Month of Rest
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Gwen opened her eyes and was immediately blinded by the sunlight streaming through her windows. She blinked a couple of times to adjust to the light, and then looked around, trying to remember what had happened before she fell asleep. Apparently, she had fallen asleep in the living room, still in her red dress.
"Oh yeah... Now I remember... I slept down here with Kurama..." Gwen murmured, gazing at where Kurama had been and finding only empty space. "Where could he be?"
Gwen sat up, and looked at the grandfather clock nearby. It read 9:50 a.m. She stood up and walked to the kitchen, finding it to be perfectly clean.
"Kurama..." Gwen smiled, knowing that it was him who cleaned the mess. She grabbed a couple of riceballs that were placed on the kitchen table, and went upstairs to take a shower.
While in the shower, she stared at the wall, deep in thought.
'Why was Hiei acting so weird...? Does he actually like me? ...But, I can't love him. I have made my decision, and plan to stick with it. Maybe Hiei... was just being friendly... Argh!' Gwen thought. 'He's so confusing!!' She closed her eyes and turned off the shower. She stepped out and wrapped a towel around her body, walking in her room and shaking her head.
Carnation, who was in the room since last night, woke up from her nap. ~What are you thinking about? Or should I say, who are you thinking about?~
Her cat yawned and stretched as Gwen watched, feeling a blush rise to her cheeks. "It's none of your business."
The feline licked her paw, laughing a bit. Gwen decided to ignore that, looking through her clothes.
~Oh! Genkai needs to see you. She told me it was important,~ Carnation said, jumping off the bed.
"Important, huh?" Gwen picked out a dark red tank top and black flares with white sneakers. She gazed in the mirror, seeing her hair had turned all pink. "Maybe I should change my hair style..." Smiling, she walked back in the bathroom.
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Gwenevere walked up the hundreds of shrine stairs, enjoying the nature surrounding her. She proceeded to the shrine and opened the door, seeing Genkai standing across the room.
"Konnichiwa, Genkai-sensei," she said, walking up to her and bowing.
"Glad to see you here, Gwen," Genkai smiled. "Had enough with your straight hair?"
Gwen fingered through her now wavy pink hair. "Yeah, I decided to change it. I'll probably change it back once I'm bored with this."
"Now, Gwen, I didn't ask you to come here for a chat on hair styles," Genkai said, suddenly serious. "I can see you're ready."
Gwen looked at her dazedly. "Ready for what?"
"For your final test as my apprentice."
"Why now? Why not later when I'm more capable of passing the test?"
"I don't have time, Gwen. Do you want to undergo the test or not?"
Gwen nodded her head. "Yes. I'm ready, Master."
"...The test will be to kill me."
"Nani?!"
"I'm growing old, Gwen. I told you I don't have much time. ...When you're done deciding, follow my ki." Genkai walked out of the shrine as Gwen was frozen as stone, wondering what she should do.
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Gwen followed the ki Genkai had given off and arrived at a private beach. Genkai stood in front of the water, looking into the sunset. She turned around to face her apprentice.
"So have you made your decision?" Genkai asked.
"I'm not doing it. You're my grand-aunt, let alone my teacher. I learned probably the most important things that I need in life from you. I... just can't," Gwen said quietly. "Besides, you're the only relative who actually cares about me..."
"...Hm..." Genkai smiled. "You've passed the test."
"Huh?!"
"I wouldn't want to give up my power to someone who would kill me for it! Now come on, I'll give you the _real_ test."
"I can't believe you tricked me! You're a mean old lady!" Gwen stuck out her tongue. She walked up to Genkai, standing in front of her.
"Are you sure you're up to this? This will be brutally painful. It could take days, weeks, months, even years to survive this test. Once you start this test, you can not back out."
"Yes, I'm ready. And I'm not backing out," Gwen said confidently.
"I can not help you. You are on your own. Yusuke will have the same test, but I have split my power in two so that each of you can have the exact amount. It will feel as if the orbs contain all of my power. You will feel his pain as he goes through his test, but you will fall into a deep sleep. This will be the first part of your test, Gwenevere," Genkai warned further. She placed her hands six inches apart from each other. "This is your test! You must survive absorbing the Rei Ko Gyoku (Spirit Wave Orb)!" An orb of immense Spiritual Energy lit up the whole area.
Gwen held out her hands, thinking, 'I can do this... I can do this...' When Genkai handed the orb to Gwen, it slowly absorbed into her.
"Huh? I don't feel a thing..." Gwen mumbled as she looked herself over. She looked at Genkai, wondering if that was all that she had to do. 'Why did she say it was brutal? It doesn't hurt at all...' All at once, she began to feel light-headed, and her vision went double. Pain shot up in her body, as if her body was being cut from the inside.
"Genkai..." she choked out before she fell on her knees, coughing up blood. With that one movement, sharp pains shot through her arms, legs, and back. Gwen closed her eyes, screaming her lungs out. She began punching the sand fiercely, trying to get rid of the pain. She collasped on her back, rolling one side to another, whimpering in pain.
"Gwen..." Genkai murmured, seeing Gwen crying out, screaming in agony. "I'm sorry... I told you that I can not help you, but you're not going through this well..." Genkai walked toward Gwen to take the Rei Ko Gyoku out.
"NOOOOOOO! DON'T TAKE IT AWAY!! THIS IS MY CHOICE! MY BURDEN! IT'S MINE!" Gwen screamed, making a force field around herself, keeping Genkai away. Her eyes were bloodshot and she was a sickly pale.
"Fine, Gwen. Have it your way. As I said before, you are on your own," Genkai sighed as she left the hanyou to suffer her pain all alone.
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Waves crashed as Gwen's pain continued. For four weeks now, Gwen had stayed there, wondering how long she could hang on. Her vision was alternating between color and pitch black, and her urge to collapse due to dizziness increased. She kept on coughing up blood, and her body was shaking as if she had a fever. Gwen wondered how she survived this long without any food or water and the continual blood loss.
She had fired her reiki in blasts at the water, the blasts making two walls of water before they crashed back down again. She almost tried to kill herself because the pain was too intense.
'No! I have to make it...for my friends...' she always thought whenever she had tried to kill herself.
Gwen, collapsed, giving up. 'Sorry, Genkai... you were right... I couldn't do this test...' Flashes of her friends flew through her mind as she cried bitterly. 'Yusuke...Kuwabara...Keiko...Yukina...Botan...Koenma...Kurama...Hiei...'
After crying, she felt very hot and thirsty. She closed her eyes. 'I could use some water now...' Then she felt as if she was floating on her back. A cool, wet sensation filled her senses as she opened her eyes to stare at the starry night. 'Why am I in water?' she thought as she looked around to be in the cool ocean water. Then she looked at the shore to find Carnation, looking like she would collapse, but concentrating on moving Gwen to the water.
'Carnation...' Gwen thought as tears blurred her vision. Fresh water fell to her lips, and she gladly drank it. 'She must've purified the ocean water to become fresh...'
~Gwen, if you die, I die. Remember that.~
'So if I die, she dies...' Gwen remembered her dream the night Carnation was hatched...
^^ **Dream**
"Gwenevere," Koenma appeared in front of Gwen. "Your Spirit Beast has hatched. Tomorrow morning you must come to Reikai to become a Reikai Tantei.
"Carnation, your Spirit Beast, is your inner self. When you're happy, she's happy. When you're in pain, she's in pain. When you die, she will die. Remember that..." ^^
Gwen remembered when she died, she didn't see Carnation alive. She had figured Carnation was with Koenma in Reikai while she was a ghost in Ningenkai.
Gwen looked at Carnation again, watching her collapse from fatigue. Gwen closed her eyes, using all of her strength to get up. "I will not...allow any of my friends to die on me!!!" She concentrated on maintaining the reiki Genkai gave her. The water around her began moving at a great speed, and, soon enough, made giant waves. Gwen noticed this, and ran quickly to Carnation, picking her up, and running back to Genkai's temple, avoiding the tsunamis, having passed her cruel test.
Genkai looked up from her meditation, watching Gwen walk toward her, blood staining her mouth and clothes. Gwen held the sleeping Carnation close to her.
"Genkai, can you take care of Carnation for me, please?" Gwenevere asked as she gave Genkai the kitten.
"Hai. I can do that," Genkai smiled as Gwen smiled back, falling to the ground, allowing sleep to overcome her.
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"...Mommy will always love you..."
"MOMMY! NO! DON'T LEAVE ME!"
Gwenevere looked at a little girl crying in front of a dead woman. "Are you all right?"
The girl snapped her head up. She glared at Gwen. "It was your fault Mommy died..."
"Nani? I didn't kill your mother! I don't even know you or her."
The girl's eyes turned white and clenched her fists. Wind was blowing all around them, moving their hair vigorously.
"You should die now." The girl released her fists and moved one of her hands swiftly from left to right. Wind sliced through Gwen, pain searing through her body. Gwen fell to her knees, screaming in pain.
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"Gwen! Gwen! Wake up!" a voice cried out.
Gwen immedately opened her eyes and bolted up. The blankets were wrapped around her body and looked as if she had slept restlessly.
"Oh! Good! You're finally awake!"
Gwen looked at the owner of the voice, seeing Botan. "What do you mean 'finally'?"
"You slept for a month, Gwen! We were worried that you had gone comatose or something!" Botan said, relieved.
"Shizuru, that's not nice, saying Botan would die of a heart attack in the next two years because of worrying over Gwen!" Keiko scolded as she walked in holding Carnation, who jumped into Gwen's lap. Carnation purred as she curled down to watch the girls' little chat.
"Yeah, well, the truth hurts," a girl who looked like she was twenty stood over Keiko, patting her on the back. She had long honey-colored hair with light brown eyes.
Gwen looked on the conversation blankly. Botan noticed, and said, "That girl over there is Kuwabara Shizuru." She pointed at Shizuru.
"Konnichiwa, Gwenevere-san," Shizuru said, looking at Gwen.
Gwen nodded. "Konnichiwa."
"I'm Kazuma's ane."
"Yeah, he talked about having a sister."
"Listen, Botan, we came in here to ask where Yusuke and Kuwabara went off to these past two months. We haven't heard from them in a long time," Keiko said, looking at Botan.
"Yeah, Botan. Spill it!" Shizuru looked at Botan, the two waiting for a response while Botan anxiously fidgeted.
"Oh! I don't know where they've gone to! Boys these days...heehee," Botan laughed nervously.
"Botan, we know you're lying," Keiko said. "Please tell us where they are."
Gwen suddenly remembered where they had gone. Gwen's gaze went from Keiko and Shizuru to Botan. "It's okay, Botan. They'll probably find out sooner or later."
Keiko and Shizuru turned around to face Gwen, and then glanced at Botan. Botan took a deep breath. "Well, okay, Gwen. If you say so..." She looked at Keiko, then Shizuru. "They went to the Ankoku Bujutsukai."
"What's that?" the two girls asked.
"It's a wicked martial arts tournament of the most vile youkai in Makai. Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei have to go."
"Youkai!? Aren't they legend!?"
"No. Kurama and Hiei are youkai. And Gwen, too."
Shizuru and Keiko looked warily at Gwen. "I'm only half. I'm half ningen also."
They looked back at Botan. "You are taking us to see Yusuke and Kuwabara-kun/Kazuma!" Keiko and Shizuru said sternly (with different endings).
Botan got nervous again, and Gwen joined with Keiko and Shizuru, wanting to see the tournament that she wanted to compete in. "Oorai! Yoroshii! I'll take you! But Koenma is going to punish me so!!!!" Botan wailed. Gwen jumped for joy, making Carnation fall to the ground. The cat hissed and walked out of the room, wanting to get a nap.
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"Here we are!" Botan said happily, wearing a floral, multi-colored kimono. She led the girls to the Kubikukuri hotel from the docks where the ship was docked. Gwen looked around, seeing mostly forest and saw a stadium in the distant. Carnation stood on Gwen's shoulder, explaining the rest of the story of how the boys were competing in the tournament and why Yusuke, Gwen, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei became Reikai Tantei to Keiko and Shizuru.
They walked in, and checked in, wanting to go to bed after that long boat trip. They all shared a suite and they went to their shared bedrooms: Keiko with Shizuru, and Botan with Gwen.
"Get a good night's sleep, Gwen," Botan yawned as she laid in bed, falling asleep.
"I will," Gwen said, sitting on the windowsill, looking out at the night sky. "Good night, Botan."
"Good night..." Botan said as she fell asleep.
Gwen continued looking out of the window, thinking that she would see Koenma on the island since he was the manager of the Urameshi team, and make him give answers to questions she needs answering to. She sighed as she went to her own bed and laid down, and immediately falling asleep, ready to confront the demi-god.
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Mitsukai no Awai: T_T
Carnation: STOP IT!
Mitsukai no Awai: -_-
Carnation: *rolls her eyes*
MNA: *scratches behind the kitty's ears* WHO'S A KAWAII KITTY! YOU ARE!
Carnation: *shows me her claws* Step away, Authoress.
MNA: *stepping away, scared* Uh, please review! They make me happy and the more reviews, the more I update.
Karasu: Here, onna, onna, onna...
MNA: O_O AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! EVIL CROW MAN!!!!!!!! *jumps on Kurama* Save me!!!!! -_- Wait a minute...you're here! Yay! I'm not alone!
Yusuke: We were here the entire time, you doofus. You just didn't know.
Kurama: O_O I thought I killed you!
Karasu: Yes, but I came back, and I want my kitsune and the authoress.
BANG!
Karasu: X_X
Kurama: Yay! You killed Karasu!
MNA: Yep, that I did. (Kenshin!!!!! ^_^) *holds Mr. Mallet in hand* That I did... MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Everyone backs away slowly.
Carnation: Mitsukai no Awai does not own Yu Yu Hakusho. Only me and Gwen...*sigh*
MNA: When did you get here?
Carnation: 10 seconds ago...
MNA: Oh...*looks around* WE'RE ALL ALONE! T.T
Carnation: *rolls her eyes* Here's the twentieth chapter. Seemed like forever, ne?
MNA: READ AND REVIEW! ONWARD, MARCH!
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Two Hearts, Two Minds, One Soul
Chapter Twenty
A Month of Pain, A Month of Rest
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Gwen opened her eyes and was immediately blinded by the sunlight streaming through her windows. She blinked a couple of times to adjust to the light, and then looked around, trying to remember what had happened before she fell asleep. Apparently, she had fallen asleep in the living room, still in her red dress.
"Oh yeah... Now I remember... I slept down here with Kurama..." Gwen murmured, gazing at where Kurama had been and finding only empty space. "Where could he be?"
Gwen sat up, and looked at the grandfather clock nearby. It read 9:50 a.m. She stood up and walked to the kitchen, finding it to be perfectly clean.
"Kurama..." Gwen smiled, knowing that it was him who cleaned the mess. She grabbed a couple of riceballs that were placed on the kitchen table, and went upstairs to take a shower.
While in the shower, she stared at the wall, deep in thought.
'Why was Hiei acting so weird...? Does he actually like me? ...But, I can't love him. I have made my decision, and plan to stick with it. Maybe Hiei... was just being friendly... Argh!' Gwen thought. 'He's so confusing!!' She closed her eyes and turned off the shower. She stepped out and wrapped a towel around her body, walking in her room and shaking her head.
Carnation, who was in the room since last night, woke up from her nap. ~What are you thinking about? Or should I say, who are you thinking about?~
Her cat yawned and stretched as Gwen watched, feeling a blush rise to her cheeks. "It's none of your business."
The feline licked her paw, laughing a bit. Gwen decided to ignore that, looking through her clothes.
~Oh! Genkai needs to see you. She told me it was important,~ Carnation said, jumping off the bed.
"Important, huh?" Gwen picked out a dark red tank top and black flares with white sneakers. She gazed in the mirror, seeing her hair had turned all pink. "Maybe I should change my hair style..." Smiling, she walked back in the bathroom.
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Gwenevere walked up the hundreds of shrine stairs, enjoying the nature surrounding her. She proceeded to the shrine and opened the door, seeing Genkai standing across the room.
"Konnichiwa, Genkai-sensei," she said, walking up to her and bowing.
"Glad to see you here, Gwen," Genkai smiled. "Had enough with your straight hair?"
Gwen fingered through her now wavy pink hair. "Yeah, I decided to change it. I'll probably change it back once I'm bored with this."
"Now, Gwen, I didn't ask you to come here for a chat on hair styles," Genkai said, suddenly serious. "I can see you're ready."
Gwen looked at her dazedly. "Ready for what?"
"For your final test as my apprentice."
"Why now? Why not later when I'm more capable of passing the test?"
"I don't have time, Gwen. Do you want to undergo the test or not?"
Gwen nodded her head. "Yes. I'm ready, Master."
"...The test will be to kill me."
"Nani?!"
"I'm growing old, Gwen. I told you I don't have much time. ...When you're done deciding, follow my ki." Genkai walked out of the shrine as Gwen was frozen as stone, wondering what she should do.
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Gwen followed the ki Genkai had given off and arrived at a private beach. Genkai stood in front of the water, looking into the sunset. She turned around to face her apprentice.
"So have you made your decision?" Genkai asked.
"I'm not doing it. You're my grand-aunt, let alone my teacher. I learned probably the most important things that I need in life from you. I... just can't," Gwen said quietly. "Besides, you're the only relative who actually cares about me..."
"...Hm..." Genkai smiled. "You've passed the test."
"Huh?!"
"I wouldn't want to give up my power to someone who would kill me for it! Now come on, I'll give you the _real_ test."
"I can't believe you tricked me! You're a mean old lady!" Gwen stuck out her tongue. She walked up to Genkai, standing in front of her.
"Are you sure you're up to this? This will be brutally painful. It could take days, weeks, months, even years to survive this test. Once you start this test, you can not back out."
"Yes, I'm ready. And I'm not backing out," Gwen said confidently.
"I can not help you. You are on your own. Yusuke will have the same test, but I have split my power in two so that each of you can have the exact amount. It will feel as if the orbs contain all of my power. You will feel his pain as he goes through his test, but you will fall into a deep sleep. This will be the first part of your test, Gwenevere," Genkai warned further. She placed her hands six inches apart from each other. "This is your test! You must survive absorbing the Rei Ko Gyoku (Spirit Wave Orb)!" An orb of immense Spiritual Energy lit up the whole area.
Gwen held out her hands, thinking, 'I can do this... I can do this...' When Genkai handed the orb to Gwen, it slowly absorbed into her.
"Huh? I don't feel a thing..." Gwen mumbled as she looked herself over. She looked at Genkai, wondering if that was all that she had to do. 'Why did she say it was brutal? It doesn't hurt at all...' All at once, she began to feel light-headed, and her vision went double. Pain shot up in her body, as if her body was being cut from the inside.
"Genkai..." she choked out before she fell on her knees, coughing up blood. With that one movement, sharp pains shot through her arms, legs, and back. Gwen closed her eyes, screaming her lungs out. She began punching the sand fiercely, trying to get rid of the pain. She collasped on her back, rolling one side to another, whimpering in pain.
"Gwen..." Genkai murmured, seeing Gwen crying out, screaming in agony. "I'm sorry... I told you that I can not help you, but you're not going through this well..." Genkai walked toward Gwen to take the Rei Ko Gyoku out.
"NOOOOOOO! DON'T TAKE IT AWAY!! THIS IS MY CHOICE! MY BURDEN! IT'S MINE!" Gwen screamed, making a force field around herself, keeping Genkai away. Her eyes were bloodshot and she was a sickly pale.
"Fine, Gwen. Have it your way. As I said before, you are on your own," Genkai sighed as she left the hanyou to suffer her pain all alone.
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Waves crashed as Gwen's pain continued. For four weeks now, Gwen had stayed there, wondering how long she could hang on. Her vision was alternating between color and pitch black, and her urge to collapse due to dizziness increased. She kept on coughing up blood, and her body was shaking as if she had a fever. Gwen wondered how she survived this long without any food or water and the continual blood loss.
She had fired her reiki in blasts at the water, the blasts making two walls of water before they crashed back down again. She almost tried to kill herself because the pain was too intense.
'No! I have to make it...for my friends...' she always thought whenever she had tried to kill herself.
Gwen, collapsed, giving up. 'Sorry, Genkai... you were right... I couldn't do this test...' Flashes of her friends flew through her mind as she cried bitterly. 'Yusuke...Kuwabara...Keiko...Yukina...Botan...Koenma...Kurama...Hiei...'
After crying, she felt very hot and thirsty. She closed her eyes. 'I could use some water now...' Then she felt as if she was floating on her back. A cool, wet sensation filled her senses as she opened her eyes to stare at the starry night. 'Why am I in water?' she thought as she looked around to be in the cool ocean water. Then she looked at the shore to find Carnation, looking like she would collapse, but concentrating on moving Gwen to the water.
'Carnation...' Gwen thought as tears blurred her vision. Fresh water fell to her lips, and she gladly drank it. 'She must've purified the ocean water to become fresh...'
~Gwen, if you die, I die. Remember that.~
'So if I die, she dies...' Gwen remembered her dream the night Carnation was hatched...
^^ **Dream**
"Gwenevere," Koenma appeared in front of Gwen. "Your Spirit Beast has hatched. Tomorrow morning you must come to Reikai to become a Reikai Tantei.
"Carnation, your Spirit Beast, is your inner self. When you're happy, she's happy. When you're in pain, she's in pain. When you die, she will die. Remember that..." ^^
Gwen remembered when she died, she didn't see Carnation alive. She had figured Carnation was with Koenma in Reikai while she was a ghost in Ningenkai.
Gwen looked at Carnation again, watching her collapse from fatigue. Gwen closed her eyes, using all of her strength to get up. "I will not...allow any of my friends to die on me!!!" She concentrated on maintaining the reiki Genkai gave her. The water around her began moving at a great speed, and, soon enough, made giant waves. Gwen noticed this, and ran quickly to Carnation, picking her up, and running back to Genkai's temple, avoiding the tsunamis, having passed her cruel test.
Genkai looked up from her meditation, watching Gwen walk toward her, blood staining her mouth and clothes. Gwen held the sleeping Carnation close to her.
"Genkai, can you take care of Carnation for me, please?" Gwenevere asked as she gave Genkai the kitten.
"Hai. I can do that," Genkai smiled as Gwen smiled back, falling to the ground, allowing sleep to overcome her.
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"...Mommy will always love you..."
"MOMMY! NO! DON'T LEAVE ME!"
Gwenevere looked at a little girl crying in front of a dead woman. "Are you all right?"
The girl snapped her head up. She glared at Gwen. "It was your fault Mommy died..."
"Nani? I didn't kill your mother! I don't even know you or her."
The girl's eyes turned white and clenched her fists. Wind was blowing all around them, moving their hair vigorously.
"You should die now." The girl released her fists and moved one of her hands swiftly from left to right. Wind sliced through Gwen, pain searing through her body. Gwen fell to her knees, screaming in pain.
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"Gwen! Gwen! Wake up!" a voice cried out.
Gwen immedately opened her eyes and bolted up. The blankets were wrapped around her body and looked as if she had slept restlessly.
"Oh! Good! You're finally awake!"
Gwen looked at the owner of the voice, seeing Botan. "What do you mean 'finally'?"
"You slept for a month, Gwen! We were worried that you had gone comatose or something!" Botan said, relieved.
"Shizuru, that's not nice, saying Botan would die of a heart attack in the next two years because of worrying over Gwen!" Keiko scolded as she walked in holding Carnation, who jumped into Gwen's lap. Carnation purred as she curled down to watch the girls' little chat.
"Yeah, well, the truth hurts," a girl who looked like she was twenty stood over Keiko, patting her on the back. She had long honey-colored hair with light brown eyes.
Gwen looked on the conversation blankly. Botan noticed, and said, "That girl over there is Kuwabara Shizuru." She pointed at Shizuru.
"Konnichiwa, Gwenevere-san," Shizuru said, looking at Gwen.
Gwen nodded. "Konnichiwa."
"I'm Kazuma's ane."
"Yeah, he talked about having a sister."
"Listen, Botan, we came in here to ask where Yusuke and Kuwabara went off to these past two months. We haven't heard from them in a long time," Keiko said, looking at Botan.
"Yeah, Botan. Spill it!" Shizuru looked at Botan, the two waiting for a response while Botan anxiously fidgeted.
"Oh! I don't know where they've gone to! Boys these days...heehee," Botan laughed nervously.
"Botan, we know you're lying," Keiko said. "Please tell us where they are."
Gwen suddenly remembered where they had gone. Gwen's gaze went from Keiko and Shizuru to Botan. "It's okay, Botan. They'll probably find out sooner or later."
Keiko and Shizuru turned around to face Gwen, and then glanced at Botan. Botan took a deep breath. "Well, okay, Gwen. If you say so..." She looked at Keiko, then Shizuru. "They went to the Ankoku Bujutsukai."
"What's that?" the two girls asked.
"It's a wicked martial arts tournament of the most vile youkai in Makai. Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei have to go."
"Youkai!? Aren't they legend!?"
"No. Kurama and Hiei are youkai. And Gwen, too."
Shizuru and Keiko looked warily at Gwen. "I'm only half. I'm half ningen also."
They looked back at Botan. "You are taking us to see Yusuke and Kuwabara-kun/Kazuma!" Keiko and Shizuru said sternly (with different endings).
Botan got nervous again, and Gwen joined with Keiko and Shizuru, wanting to see the tournament that she wanted to compete in. "Oorai! Yoroshii! I'll take you! But Koenma is going to punish me so!!!!" Botan wailed. Gwen jumped for joy, making Carnation fall to the ground. The cat hissed and walked out of the room, wanting to get a nap.
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"Here we are!" Botan said happily, wearing a floral, multi-colored kimono. She led the girls to the Kubikukuri hotel from the docks where the ship was docked. Gwen looked around, seeing mostly forest and saw a stadium in the distant. Carnation stood on Gwen's shoulder, explaining the rest of the story of how the boys were competing in the tournament and why Yusuke, Gwen, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei became Reikai Tantei to Keiko and Shizuru.
They walked in, and checked in, wanting to go to bed after that long boat trip. They all shared a suite and they went to their shared bedrooms: Keiko with Shizuru, and Botan with Gwen.
"Get a good night's sleep, Gwen," Botan yawned as she laid in bed, falling asleep.
"I will," Gwen said, sitting on the windowsill, looking out at the night sky. "Good night, Botan."
"Good night..." Botan said as she fell asleep.
Gwen continued looking out of the window, thinking that she would see Koenma on the island since he was the manager of the Urameshi team, and make him give answers to questions she needs answering to. She sighed as she went to her own bed and laid down, and immediately falling asleep, ready to confront the demi-god.
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Mitsukai no Awai: T_T
Carnation: STOP IT!
Mitsukai no Awai: -_-
Carnation: *rolls her eyes*
MNA: *scratches behind the kitty's ears* WHO'S A KAWAII KITTY! YOU ARE!
Carnation: *shows me her claws* Step away, Authoress.
MNA: *stepping away, scared* Uh, please review! They make me happy and the more reviews, the more I update.
Karasu: Here, onna, onna, onna...
MNA: O_O AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! EVIL CROW MAN!!!!!!!! *jumps on Kurama* Save me!!!!! -_- Wait a minute...you're here! Yay! I'm not alone!
Yusuke: We were here the entire time, you doofus. You just didn't know.
Kurama: O_O I thought I killed you!
Karasu: Yes, but I came back, and I want my kitsune and the authoress.
BANG!
Karasu: X_X
Kurama: Yay! You killed Karasu!
MNA: Yep, that I did. (Kenshin!!!!! ^_^) *holds Mr. Mallet in hand* That I did... MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Everyone backs away slowly.