Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Yu Yu Hakusho Re-Written: Journey to Maze Castle. ❯ Chapter Two: Yap, Yap, Yap. ( Chapter 2 )

~*Kat Watched as he and another Fugaki, about half the size of Kuwabara but still taller than the average Fugaki, killed almost all of the smaller ones. She felt herself blushing as she looked at the taller Fugaki, wondering why. *~

Chapter Two: Yap, Yap, Yap.

Yuusuke blinked as he picked himself up off the ground, "You two aren't Fugaki, are you?"

A small chuckle came from the taller figure, "No, Yuusuke, we aren't Fugaki." Kat blinked and cocked her head to the side at the feminine yet masculine voice. She secretly smiled at the slight, barley noticeable trill at the end of each word. That is what made it soft, and therefore feminine she thought refraining from a giggle.

A brief and irritated 'Hn' came from the shorter robed figure, "If we were Fugaki we would have eaten you by now." Kat chose to ignore the irritated sense in the voice and try to pinpoint what pitch it was, she didn't succeed in anymore than finding out it was a low tone, one that held only a little warmth, though it was capable of more. Kat stifled a giggle as she imagined a giant back dragon taking care of a little green, red, and black kitten, why she imagined that specific image fled from her knowledge.

The taller figure tore off the cloak gracefully, the shorter did much the same only more roughly, once again as if irritated.

Kat couldn't help gawking at the taller figure, "He's more girlie than I am!"

She yelped and brought both hands over her mouth as though she was trying to keep herself from saying something else stupid. Everyone stared at her as if they hadn't noticed her being there before now, all except the tall, lavender eyed male, he was looking at her with an amused look. She felt herself blushing even more and tightened the grip on her mouth. "Who is this young lady?" The lavender eyed male said looking to Yuusuke.

"Young lady?" Kat shot Yuusuke a 'shut up' look, he grinned.

"Don't make me hurt you, Hair Gel for Brains." Kat said pulling her hands from her mouth, "You know full well I'm a girl."

"Yeah, not lady though."

"... Yeah I have to agree with you there." Kat replied giggling.

"Baka tachi." The shorter figure said as he glared at them with red eyes that seemed to glow like live embers. "I could make a rather cruel remark to that, but I won't." Kat said shrugging off his glare. "I don't have time to deal with some one who is acting more immature than I am, oh, mind you that is quite a feat seeing as how I'm thirteen and you're probably over three hundred."

She grinned inwardly as he growled at her. "You're lucky I don't cut you in half."

She shrugged, "I guess maybe I am, and I guess that maybe I'm not. Truth be told I couldn't give a flying rat's burning ass if you killed me, I'm only here to play around and torch some bad guys, or idiots if Kuwa- BAKA makes comments I dislike, same with Yuusuke, but he's a faster learner than Kuwa-baka."

The crimson eyed demon rolled his eyes, "You're not worth my time baka Ningen." Kat grinned, Inwardly she wondered why the hell she teased smart guys, they where never much fun unless they argued, then again smart guys where rarer than void mages. She was already scheming to upset the red eyed boy when it hit her, "You're youkai, right? I know it sounds stupid to ask but there are some mages that do some REALLY screwed up stuff. I once met a mage with rainbow eyes, Sugoi Kowai..."

The male glared at her, she then just noticed his gravity defying black and blue hair, and then the white star streak running through it. '... Crap, I'm slow today, then again staying up two weeks strait reading shoujo ai and shounen manga probably don't help my thinking process.' The lavender eyed boy chuckled, she noticed his hair. "Oooooh, can I catch your hair on fire? It's poofy." He just blinked at first, taken aback by the question in general. "I would prefer you didn't, miss,,," He was obviously using a different approach to get her name. "Oh! I'm Yoh Kathrine, but if you call me Kathrine I'll hurt you, so call me Kat, or anything but my full name. Well, unless you are particularly fond of human bite marks in your arm. And sorry bout my actions at the moment, except my question about your hair, I was fully serious about that. But back to my point, sorry about my actions, I've been up two weeks strait reading shoujo ai and regular 'ol brilliant shounen manga. Manga good, manga friend, weee look it they kissed! Oops." Kat said blushing at her antics. 'I shouldn't go on two week manga binges,, they rot my brain, I'm really surprised I have one after all that training with Samosa.' she thought, her mind not wishing to stay on one subject in particular.

He smiled in amusement, "I am Kurama and this is Hiei." "Oh! You're the two thieves that stole the Mirror of darkness and all them right?" Kurama ignored Kat's odd grammar and nodded to Kat's question, "How did you find out about that? The only human with Reikai at that time was Yuusuke." "I'm a mage, I was brought in for making people 'spontaneously' catch on fire." She grinned wide making Kurama blink, he wasn't sure whether Hiei or this young red head would be considered more of a pyromaniac than the other. "Thank the goddess of Kuramahou that Reikai allowed one of the other realms become the Mahoukai, the people there are now in charge of magic instead of Reikai.. And I think the Mahoukai is above the Kurakai in case you where wondering."

"You seem rather intelligent on matters of the realms."

"Let's just say my camera is a best friend of mine, I black mail people for information or other things I need."

Kurama didn't know what exactly to think of that, "I... see."

"Please note, I don't abuse the power my black mailing gives me, this information is stuff I really do need sense the only other way is to talk to my Mahou sensei Samosa or to talk to my cousins,,, My cousins are adopted demon mages that think I'm for entertainment involving electricity, and Samosa thinks females in general are a form of entertainment."
Before anyone could say another word Hiei growled, "Shut up, let's get moving."

"Oh yeah,, those stupid insects and those stupid saint beasts," She leaned against a small dead tree, yelping loudly when it's brittle parched wood cracked and made her crash into the ground, "..... BAKA KI!"

~

In the Ningenkai Botan grumbled, today hadn't been her day at all. First she gets shot down by Koenma for one of the other ferry girls, then she is reminded of the fact Yuusuke and Keiko have a more successful relationship than her's and Koenma's, to be exact all Koenma cared for was sex. She sighed sadly, unable to get her usual perk back for once, it just hurt so much.

Walking on the other side of the street from the one she was walking on was a boy with dirty blonde hair, he looked to be around ten, but deep in his dark blue eyes was a sense of hidden wisdom and maturity.

He was dressed in a grey school uniform, one from the private academy a block or two from there.

If there was ever a person more lost in thought than he was at that moment they would have been lost for all eternity, not even the honkings of the large truck with bad breaks was enough to penetrate his thoughts.

Botan meeped and quickly materialized her oar, mounting it less than a second later, and grabbed the boy before he was hit.

As she rose up holding the blinking boy by his wrist she started to fret, "Oh now I've done it! I'm not supposed to interfere with the circumstances of life and death till after the body and soul are separated!"

"Domo Arigato, Botan San." The young voice of the ten year old boy rang out a slight bit, startling Botan, she looked down at him blinking, "How do you know who I am?"

He smiled like the little kid he appeared to be, "You're a ferry girl to the underworld or spirit world right? And you fit my brother's description perfectly, except you look sad." Botan was caught off guard, she had found some one as bubbly as she was, only male and mortal. "Then you are?"

"Yukiki Kazehane."

Botan smiled, "Well, Kazehane, sense I saved you, could you help me with something?"

~

Kat had long given up trying to upset Hiei, all it did was get her glared at and occasionally called an idiot. Instead, she went back to her normal routine of torturing Kuwabara with riddles. "A yellow sun surrounded by white, on the skillet lies it's plight. Can you figure -that- one out at least?"

Kuwabara just blinked.

".... An egg, you idiot, Does anyone -other- than Yuusuke care if I kill the stupid carrot?"

Hiei made the one noise he seemed to make constantly whenever he was asked a question, 'Hn,' "Though he'll be of little help we need everyone in decent condition, little use is better than no use."

Kurama nodded in agreement, "Hiei is correct."

"Oi, this is no fun, can we at least use him as a human shield?" Kat asked pleadingly. Kuwabara glared at her, "Hey!"

Kat used her mastery of ignoring people to continue, "I mean gads, it's not like I'll get a chance for a decent fight, there are only four saint beasts and five of us, though if you'll let me I can make it four."

All of them gave her a 'no' look, she grinned and went on.

"All I'll get is the stupid little minions, unless of course.." She was given a warning glance by Hiei. Kat sweat dropped, "Okay, I'll stop for now."

Kurama looked at Kat, he had sensed something deep about her, but something within him told her this thirteen year old girl had more to her than most two hundred year old demons. Even if she did constantly rant about killing Kuwabara.

Kat smiled, "So, since I can't kill Kuwabara can I torture him? Wait, don't answer, I'll do it either way, if you try to stop me I'll ignore you, I need something entertaining to do as we trod forward to this stupid castle that just so happens to be so damn far away it's annoying."

Kurama chuckled lightly, he was finding Kat rather amusing.

~

"Artamisu, Artamisu, Artamisu." Suzaku scowled, he hated how the only way to get that Stupid enchanter to his castle was to say his name thrice without interruptions.

In what seemed to be a flurry of magical snow, a relatively tall figure materialized. His icy blue hair was cut into a girlish fashion to right above his shoulders, whilst meticulously placed white bangs framed his burgundy eyes to perfection. The man was dressed in the fanciest mage robes of his age, making him look as though he were in a female's kimono, one with brilliant shades of blue that created lovely patterns that, when far away, looked as though it were pure ice. Suzaku looked unimpressed, "So, ice today is it? You were summoned for three hours ago! Not told to dawn the most complicated outfit you have!"

"Temper, temper, Milord Suzaku, it's not good for your heart to get so angry." Suzaku was calmed down swiftly from the warm voice the man replied in. "Now, why is it you summoned me?"

Suzaku turned to a terribly ugly, grey, mirror. It flashed to the images of five people heading towards maze castle at a decent pace. All of them looked to be but teenagers, though the short black clad male and the tall lavender eyed male had a sense of being older than they looked. the mirror focused on a red haired female with dark green eyes, it was hard to tell weather or not her mentality was that of a two year old, or a two hundred year old.

"You wish me to fetch this maiden?" Artamisu asked looking at the girl, noting how he stood six inches over her height of Five feet five inches.

"Fool, I want you to defeat her, not fetch her. Though, if you can manage bringing her back alive she would make a perfect toy for myself and Seiryuu." Suzaku said imagining the protests she would make to having her maidenhood taken by force, a cruel grin was spreading across his face, he like the idea very much. Suzaku brushed his red intenas out of his face, "Try to bring her here alive."

Artamisu bowed, "As you wish, shall I go now?"

"No, wait till later, see if they get past the gate."

"Yes, Milord." Artamisu replied fading out in a manner close to that in which he came, his mind plotting the betrayal of his lord.

~

Kat smiled at the entrance to the castle, "Sugoi Kawaii gate."

Yuusuke and Kuwabara looked at her like she was insane, they personally were afraid of the demonic statues that seemed to be guarding the gate.

"You think that's -cute-????" Kuwabara yelled, half defining the others.

Kat beamed ignoring the ringing in her ears, "Yep, I love gargoyles, they're so cute." "Gargoyles?" Yuusuke asked. "Well, I Believe that they are statues meant to protect castles and churches, in the dark they look pretty realistic, not to mention there are real gargoyles only they aren't friendly and live in the Kurakai, not a very nice place to go, even I'm scared to go there, and it takes a lot to spook me. But back to what I was saying, Gargoyles are normally the stone figures used to scare people at night or even at dusk, there are legends about gargoyles being beasts that turn to life at night and turn to stone during the day, but there aren't enough deaths and disappearances that aren't explainable in Paris, England and other places with an over infatuation of the adorable little stone statues."

Yuusuke and Kuwabara looked at her, sour expressions covering their faces. Kurama was blinking at her, not expecting a sprout of knowledge on an uncommon subject, especially from Kat. "You give quite a lot of information, Miss Kat." Kat blinked at Kurama, "Well, I only babble when I know a lot about a subject, though the subject of gargoyles isn't as easy as most I come across, Gargoyle isn't English or Japanese so I have a bad time not only saying it but finding information on it in a language I understand, I Still have no ideas on the origins of gargoyles but plan to read up on them next time I'm sent to America for a month." Kurama nodded as she spoke, "I see, I suppose you rarely rant on something you know little about then?" "Unlike Yuusuke and Twinkie head I don't want to make a -complete- ass out of myself, if I'm not any good at the subject I keep my mouth shut a good deal of the time." She grinned like a Cheshire cat, "Though I'm told I don't know when to shut up, even though it's more like I just don't want too." Kurama chuckled lightly. "We should continue, Hiei doesn't seem very pleased with our standing around and talking." Kurama commented. Kat nearly doubled over at the glare Hiei was giving her, "Damn! If looks could kill I'd be... I won't finish that sentence."

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Kat's translations,

Baka- Stupid

Ki- tree or wood, not to be mixed up with the kanji Ki that is at times read as Chi meaning energy.

Mahou- Magic

Samosa- the name of Kat's magic teacher, the name is also an inside joke.

Sensei- one of the most used words to beginners in Japanese, it means teacher.

Makai- I consider it a rough translation,,, but, it translates to demon world or demon realm.

Reikai- Spirit world or sprit realm

Mahoukai- Magic realm (Not magic world!!! Though it COULD be translated that way I would severely hurt anyone I met calling it that.)

Kurakai- dark realm or dark world, realm sounds much better.

shounen- boy in baisic-ness read shounen jump if you want to know the technical meaning.

Shoujo ai- In all baisic-ness, and the perverted way polarbear puts it, Hot lesbian action, only in Kat's mangas it's rated for teens meaning no 'iffy' panels.

Kawaii- cute

Sugoi- super

gads- a random thing I use, it's not Japanese.