A/N: Hi! I hope you enjoy! And if you don't then…just don't read it! But review and tell me what's you don't like about it anyway! I mean specifically so I can write things that you want to read!

Disclaimer: No, I don't own Samurai Deeper Kyo, I, the authoress, only owns Yuki and the other made up characters in this story!

Dialogue:

"…" Talking

'…' Thoughts

/…/ Mind Talking

Italics for me are usually memories or dreams unless it's only a sentence or a word.

Chapter 1: Heartbroken

Deep in the trees of Aokigahara a girl was sleeping. Shadows played on her goddess-like body and face as she slept peacefully on a huge branch, blissfully unaware of two predatory eyes, distorted beyond human recognition, watching her. Suddenly without warning a brown-black blur speed toward the girl almost invisible through the trees. Almost as if bored, the girl opened her molten-gold colored eyes and fingered the hilt of her sword for a moment as if pondering whether or not to use it. At the last second the girl disappeared, only to reappear behind the kenyo and strike it down in one stroke.

'Hmm...A kenyo? Must have been desperate to have attacked me recklessly like that...' thought the girl as she absent mindedly twisted a lock of her long snowy-sliver hair. Looking at the dying kenyo her eyes hardened for a second to solid gold and then softened back to molten, a small smile gracing her face. 'Things are going to get interesting from now on.'

Looking back down at the Kenyo, she said quietly in a barely auditable voice, "Send a message to your follow Kenyo if you have a drop of companionship left. Tell them Yuki of the Demons is back." At her proclamation, the surrounding forest became, if even possible, more silent. Smiling now, Yuki stood from her crouch and disappeared into the trees.

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"What were you doing in my bath, Benitora?" Yuya glared murderously. 'Sheesh, can't a girl take a bath ALONE!'

"But…it was revalidation of the heart!" Benitora whimpered in slightly – ok more than slightly – terrified voice. Benitora jumped like a whipped puppy when he heard knuckles cracking. "Yuya-san, please have mercy!"

A vein popped on her head and a second later the locals could see someone falling though the sky.

"Yuya-san you're getting better at that every time you do it…" Yukimura said as he followed Tora's progress though the sky.

Yuya jumped, "Oh Yukimura-san, when did you get here?"

"You think he would get the picture by now though." Yukimura said softly, his voice a low murmur.

"Yeah," Yuya's expression softened. "But I know he's just trying to get my mind away from my thoughts…" Yuya trailed off as she saddened.

"Well, I have to go now. Have a nice evening, Yuya-san!" said Yukimura with his usual cheery smile.

Yuya was left in her own private thoughts when she heard a voice calling her name.

"Yuya-san, Yuya-san!"

"Huh," Yuya snapped out of her daze and looked in the direction of the voice only to find herself face to face with Okuni. "Oh! Okuni-san! Sorry!"

"Are you all right? I've been trying to get your attention for a while now. You seem dazed." Okuni said, watching Yuya's reaction carefully.

'Ever since things have quieted down, Yuya's been like this…' Okuni looked at Yuya's eyes, there was cheerfulness but it was mixed with uncertainty and fear. 'Why can't Kyo-sama just say he loves her instead of distancing her like this?' Okuni thought angrily. She sighed as she listened to Yuya gabble an apology.

"Maybe instead of trying to hide it, you should tell Kyo how you feel." Okuni saw the disbelieving look on her face after she had spoke. "And don't try to go with the excuse that Kyo-sama will slice you into mince meat because he won't."

Yuya's last defense crumbled. "All right I'll go see him but –" She looked at Okuni here. "Don't expect him to admit anything, all right!"

Okuni nodded and Yuya walked away toward the castle gardens where Kyo's room was located. Her nervousness increased as she walked toward his room. 'What if he doesn't listen to what I have to say? What if I was right and he doesn't feel the way I feel about him?'

Banishing these thoughts, Yuya knocked softly on the wooden beam next to the rice paper door. Waiting a few minutes Yuya cautiously opened the door and peered inside. No one was there.

'Oh…maybe he's in the gardens.' Walking back, she jumped off of the porch and started searching. Coming to the garden wall, Yuya walked along it. After awhile Yuya sighed and sat down for a rest. 'Maybe he isn't here.' Getting up, Yuya started to walk back when a voice stopped her dead in her tracks.

"Kyo-san, why do you act so cold to Yuya-san?" asked Yukimura still wearing his fake cheerfulness expression, a hint of curiosity apparent. Yuya mentally agreed with him.

Kyo just stared coldly at Yukimura. "What do you mean? I've always treated her the same way, just as a common, weak slave."

"Really? Than why does she affect you so much?" Yukimura said this time smirking instead of smiling, his voice going no higher than a whisper.

Kyo gave him an icy glare. "Affect me? The only way she affects me is by annoying and distracting me. Sakuya is much better warrior than Yuya will ever be. I will tell you once more, she is only a servant to me. Nothing more."

Yuya's breath hitched violently and tears threatened to fall from her eyes. She had heard enough. Not wanting to alert them to her presence, Yuya silently crawled back to the garden wall, and then quickly dashed blindly back to the castle. Now away from them, Yuya let her tears run freely down her face. Dashing back to her room, she rummaged through what little she possessed and threw them all in a bag.

'I can take this anymore! How could he do this to me?!'

Startled at what she just thought, Yuya bitterly laughed at her stupidity. 'What am I thinking? I talk like Kyo is betraying me…how can he betray me when he wasn't loyal to me in the first place?'

Finishing quickly, Yuya slung the small bag over her shoulder and ran to the side gate. Closing the old, metal gate with a soft click she walked briskly onto the road. 'I wonder if I should have left so irrationally. I have no place to go.' Yuya sighed against the cold evening air.

'Oh great now what I am suppose to do.' Groaning, Yuya berated herself for going unprepared. 'I don't have a place to spend the night! And I have no money!'

Too absorbed in scolding herself, Yuya didn't notice the light footsteps behind her until a hand rested on her shoulder. Her eyes widening, Yuya screamed for all she was worth. A hand quickly clamped down on her mouth, muffling the piercing screams.

"Yuya-san! Stop that!" said a familiar, feminine voice.

Yuya quieted.

As the hand relinquished its hold on her mouth, Yuya whispered, "Okuni-san?" Turning around Yuya saw that it was indeed Okuni.

"Yuya, why have you left the castle? Was it because of Kyo-sama?" Okuni noticed Yuya tense at his name. "So it was. Did something happen?"

Yuya eyes watered at the conversation that she had heard Kyo and Yukimura exchange. Okuni noticed this also. "What did Kyo-sama say to make you run from the castle?"

"H-he said that I was just a servant to him and that he thought that I was a weakling." Yuya managed to stammer out.

Okuni mentally swore to beat some sense into Kyo the next time that she saw him. 'He knows just as well as I do that without Yuya-san we wouldn't have survived countless battles and still remain human.'

"He called you weak did he?" Okuni looked at Yuya straight in the eye. "Do you want to be strong?"

'Huh?' Yuya mentally questioned. 'What's with the question?'

Seeing Okuni waiting for an answer Yuya thought it once over and nodded. "Yes Okuni-san I want to be stronger, I want to have the power to protect my friends for once and to show Kyo that I am not the weak, little girl he thinks I am!"

Okuni served the look on Yuya's face. 'Her eyes shine determination and resolve. Hmmm, she speaks the truth.'

"All right then, I'll come with you. I know someone who might be able to help."

"Really?!" Hope showed clearly in her eyes.

Okuni smiled. "Yes but we have to move quickly. It will take us a day or so to get there."

Following Okuni, Yuya's heart swelled with hope and determination.

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It was almost the next nightfall when Okuni stopped walking. Yuya collapsed in a grateful heap. "Why did we stop, Okuni-san?"

"Because we're here. This is where I meet my friend occasionally."

Yuya perked up at the mention of Okuni's friend. "So how often do you meet her? Or him? Is it a him?"

Yuya's eyes widened a fraction at her own comment. "I'm sorry, I didn't me-"

Okuni cut her off. "It's alright. And no my friend is not a man. I meet her every couple of years or so."

"What! Every couple of years." Yuya gaped.

Okuni shrugged. "Sometimes she's there and comes out to meet me. Sometimes she is there and stays there until I go, I never know."

Yuya was about to reply when all of a sudden she was pressed down by an invisible hand. Yuya landed hard on the ground. Tilting her head slightly, Yuya could see that Okuni was on her hands and knees barely keeping her body off the ground. Then as quickly as it came the pressure was gone. A voice cut through the air.

"It seems you've gotten better, since the last time I saw, Okuni. Who have you got with you?"

"Yuki, I see that you still are as powerful as ever." Okuni replied. Yuya could see that they knew each other quite well since they didn't use the honorific. "Why don't you come out, Yuki?"

Yuya slowly stood up from the ground and peered around the clearing for any signs of life. Warmth spread through her; it was power, more specifically it was Yuki's power. A figure came walking through the shadows of the trees and stepped into the clearing, Yuya gasped with amazement and wonder. A majestic pure-white wolf stood in front of her. At least three times the size of a regular wolf, this snow-wolf had sharp claws that showed no worn at all. As the wolf walked toward Yuya noticed powerful muscles contract under the flawless fur coat. Each step was graceful and sure. Yuya knew she should run from this beautiful, lethal predator but she found herself unable to move. Beside her, Okuni smiled.

"Yuki, do you have to make a big show of everything?" The she-wolf's eyes shone in amusement before its entire body was enveloped in white light. Yuya shielded her eyes instinctively, but stopped once she realized that for all its brightness, the light only outlined the wolf, which was fast becoming a human. A teenager about eighteen or so stood in place of the wolf, her sliver snow-white hair reach to her middle thigh and her eyes shone glorious gold.

Yuya remembered what Okuni had told her a couple of hours after they had left.

"Are you Yuki-sama?" Yuya asked timidly, she could feel enormous power radiant from her even at this distance. It wasn't suffocating, raging power that Kyo possessed or the cold, icy power that Akira had but a soft, gentle, calming power much like a gentle breeze that could turn into a hurricane at any second. Yuya held immediate respect for this female warrior and she started to like her even more when Yuki smiled and nodded at her question. Yuki crossed what was left of the distance between them, so that a moderate amount of space was left. Yuya could see that she carried three swords, two were strapped to her side and one was flung across her back.

Okuni whispered in Yuya's ear. "She can be cold and deadly when she wants to be like the perfect samurai but her heart is kind." Yuya nodded in agreement, and seeing the slight amusement on Yukiko's face, Yuya thought she must have heard too.

"Okuni-san, is it possible for her to hear us?' Yuya asked. Okuni started to reply when an amusement-laced voice cut in.

"Of course I can hear you. All of my kind would have been able to hear you two whispering from this distance. Actually, it seems like your talking right into my ear." When Yukiko saw Yuya's puzzled expression, she turned to Okuni and raised an eyebrow. "You brought her to see me and you didn't tell her?"

Okuni shook her head and Yuki sighed muttering that Okuni couldn't get anything done. Ignoring the glare sent by Okuni, Yukiko turned toward Yuya. "Have you ever heard of demons?"

"Of course, I saw them at Aokigahara." replied Yuya.

Yukiko shook her head. "Those were mutated humans not demons, though they are what humans view as typical demons."

"Then what are demons?" Yuya asked.

Yukiko pondered on how to explain it for a moment. "High level demons are beings that have strength, stamina, energy, and powers far greater than a human being. They are born that way from parents that hold similar power. Each different kind of demon has a special kind of link to Nature and the Earth. Also naturally they're far more intelligent than any human will ever be in a lifetime. Demons learn things easily and they have excellent self-control if they want to use it. They are immortal and can only die if someone kills them and that is no easy feat to do for a human samurai."

Yuya still was doubtful and she could tell that Yukiko saw it too. While Yuya thought about this she also thought about the others. 'Do they miss me? Nah! Probably only Benitora will think of me and only when he doesn't have something to do, they probably found the note already though. Huh, what would they say if they saw helpless me standing here talking to a…'

Yuya looked closely at Yuki's appearance, absorbing in the strange marks on her face and forehead. Looking at her hands, Yuya saw that Yukiko's nails were long and sharp, not like human nails. Concentrating on Yukiko's face, Yuya saw fangs and pointed ears, and thinking back to the conversation she had with her Yuya's eyes widened as her mind put the pieces together. "Yuki-sama?"

"No Yuki-sama, just Yuki alone or with any honorific you prefer except sama or dono." Yuya nodded hesitantly.

"So Yuki-san, are you a, um, a…….demon?" Yuya blushed when she trailed off in the middle.

A smile lit up Yuki's face. "Yup and proud of it too."

'A demon, no wonder she is so sure of herself. Maybe if I ask her to train me…' Yuya's thought trailed off as a flood of memories filled her brain, all of them showed Kyo, Yukimura, Sasuke, Benitora, and every other samurai that she knew and trusted refusing to teach her how to wield a blade.

Sadness and frustration seemed to roll off of Yuya in waves and Yuki was slightly shocked at how much emotion she could produce at one time. Wanting to know what had cause her to feel such strong emotion, Yuki went into her mind and was shocked at what she found, quickly making an offer. "Yuya-san."

Yuya looked up. "What?"

Smiling evilly Yuki said. "Do you want me to train you so you can be strong and make those boys pay for what they've done to you?"

"Would you really?" Yuya responded with disbelief and joy.

"Of course, I'll train you until you reach your limit or until you want me to stop." Turning to Okuni, Yuki said, "This offer is for you too."

Okuni was delighted.

Finally for the first time in a few days Yuya smiled and thought, 'If I become stronger I might be able to get over the heartache and kick Kyo's butt at the same time!'

Looking at Yuki, Yuya saw her wink. 'Wait…how did she know I wanted to become stronger anyway?! And how did she know my name? Unless…you've got to be kidding me! She's psychic too!'

Shaking her head, Yuya followed Yuki and Okuni deep into Aokigahara.

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A/N: I know, I know, this isn't a new chapter, but I just reread it out of boredom and nearly died at all the mistyped words and grammar mistakes. Let me tell you, this chapter was in dire need of commas.

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