~*~*~*~Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho, let the surprise sink in..
(Pauses for moment of thought* And I do not own Kuronue, wish I did, but I
don't. I do own Kaze, who is the person I based the story one.. she's the
one who this is modled after. Hakari, I don't own, but he's the property of
Kitsunenomen. My sisterl. Have fun!
*~*~*~* Red Moon, A Thief's promise
The moon was rather large that night, and very beautiful. It had a slightly red tint to it, and you were used to reading the stars. They warned you weather to go on that heist tonight or to just sit it out and wait for tomorrow. For as long as you could remember, the stars had been a guide, next to your brother, that is. You learned to read stars because you were the brains, he was the brawn, but you were both intelligent and ignorant at the same time.
Tonight, you proved it.
You chose to ignore the red hinted moon. You chose to ignore everything you had ever learned. And you found out too late it wasn't the best thing to do. ~~
Kaze grabbed the sack and pulled the strap over her head and shoulder, slinking off in the dark for the door. She stuck the lock pick between her teeth as she slid across the floor blending into the shadows, amazing for one as bright as the Silver. She counted the steps to the heavy door in the back of her mind, dancing a little to the left as she remember the map had pointed out all the weak floor stones that would trigger the drop traps with the slightest pressure.
Her heel skirts over one of the weak stones and it crackles loudly as it brakes from its molding and plummets to the spiked chamber below. She breathed a curse in the darkness. "Damn." I have got to get out of here before I'm Youko-kebob Kaze thought with an irritated sigh that she clamps down on her mouth. Whose brilliant idea had it been to split up, anyway? She actually breathed her sigh this time as she recalled. Oh, yeah. Mine. The youko clung to the wall as she moved around the room, inching her way ever closer to the door and her escape. She hoped your partner was having better luck than she were. Vaguely, she remembered what she saw in the stars, and the red moon. She shrugged it off and continued forward, the pack was heavier than she thought it would be. Then she heard it, foot steps. Thousands if she heard correctly. Enma must have found them out somehow. Suddenly, a flash of black catches her eye. Only one thing enters her mind. "Kuronue!" He looks to her and grabs her wrist, pulling her along. The pair of them ran, but the bags created a slight weight, throwing the girl off balance. She fell. Silver clangs and spreads down the hallway. She hears a guard yell. Kuronue runs back to help her up, and she was happy for his help, but yells at him and tells him to run away and leave her. He mumbled something about thief's honor and how he was too stubborn to listen anyway. She smiles and starts running again. They finally reach outside; she can see and smell bamboo everywhere. The leaves fall delicately around them, a few whistled past her furred ears. Next, the sound of arrows zooming past her slender body enters. As if on instinct, she calls out to her partner. "Kuronue!" "Kaze!" An ominous snap is heard, and she spins around to see crimson and green mixing before her. His pale skin was stained with red, and a bamboo pole was through his thigh, leg, and arm. "Get out of here." He was dieing, she could tell from how badly he was bleeding. But, because she cared and she were ignoring instinct, she went back to help him. Kaze could also feel him getting colder. Then his life force was gone. She didn't care though, she wanted to save his body, so she could give him a proper burial. He was her best friend, and a little more. A sharp pain erupts in her arm, but she ignores it. All that matters is Kuronue. Those guards were only hitting by chance, the fools had no aim. Another one hits, though closer to her vital spots. She pulls delicately at the bamboo, but it doesn't move, she hears a crack, and figure she's broken his hipbone. Three more arrows hit her, this time, they hit vitals. She refused to give up, and the pain is nothing compared to her determination to free him. She looked down, with distaste, at all the blood staining her white tunic. One last arrow hits her, and she fell to her knees. Because of the way she fell, a stray bamboo pole goes through her abdomen. She coughed up blood, and stared at her hand. She glanced up, and saw the moon behind Kuronue's lifeless body. It's stained red with demon blood. "I'm sorry Kuronue, I.. I couldn't. protect you.. And.. I wanted to tell you. tell you that i.." But all went black. ~*~*~*~ Read on to chapter 2.
*~*~*~* Red Moon, A Thief's promise
The moon was rather large that night, and very beautiful. It had a slightly red tint to it, and you were used to reading the stars. They warned you weather to go on that heist tonight or to just sit it out and wait for tomorrow. For as long as you could remember, the stars had been a guide, next to your brother, that is. You learned to read stars because you were the brains, he was the brawn, but you were both intelligent and ignorant at the same time.
Tonight, you proved it.
You chose to ignore the red hinted moon. You chose to ignore everything you had ever learned. And you found out too late it wasn't the best thing to do. ~~
Kaze grabbed the sack and pulled the strap over her head and shoulder, slinking off in the dark for the door. She stuck the lock pick between her teeth as she slid across the floor blending into the shadows, amazing for one as bright as the Silver. She counted the steps to the heavy door in the back of her mind, dancing a little to the left as she remember the map had pointed out all the weak floor stones that would trigger the drop traps with the slightest pressure.
Her heel skirts over one of the weak stones and it crackles loudly as it brakes from its molding and plummets to the spiked chamber below. She breathed a curse in the darkness. "Damn." I have got to get out of here before I'm Youko-kebob Kaze thought with an irritated sigh that she clamps down on her mouth. Whose brilliant idea had it been to split up, anyway? She actually breathed her sigh this time as she recalled. Oh, yeah. Mine. The youko clung to the wall as she moved around the room, inching her way ever closer to the door and her escape. She hoped your partner was having better luck than she were. Vaguely, she remembered what she saw in the stars, and the red moon. She shrugged it off and continued forward, the pack was heavier than she thought it would be. Then she heard it, foot steps. Thousands if she heard correctly. Enma must have found them out somehow. Suddenly, a flash of black catches her eye. Only one thing enters her mind. "Kuronue!" He looks to her and grabs her wrist, pulling her along. The pair of them ran, but the bags created a slight weight, throwing the girl off balance. She fell. Silver clangs and spreads down the hallway. She hears a guard yell. Kuronue runs back to help her up, and she was happy for his help, but yells at him and tells him to run away and leave her. He mumbled something about thief's honor and how he was too stubborn to listen anyway. She smiles and starts running again. They finally reach outside; she can see and smell bamboo everywhere. The leaves fall delicately around them, a few whistled past her furred ears. Next, the sound of arrows zooming past her slender body enters. As if on instinct, she calls out to her partner. "Kuronue!" "Kaze!" An ominous snap is heard, and she spins around to see crimson and green mixing before her. His pale skin was stained with red, and a bamboo pole was through his thigh, leg, and arm. "Get out of here." He was dieing, she could tell from how badly he was bleeding. But, because she cared and she were ignoring instinct, she went back to help him. Kaze could also feel him getting colder. Then his life force was gone. She didn't care though, she wanted to save his body, so she could give him a proper burial. He was her best friend, and a little more. A sharp pain erupts in her arm, but she ignores it. All that matters is Kuronue. Those guards were only hitting by chance, the fools had no aim. Another one hits, though closer to her vital spots. She pulls delicately at the bamboo, but it doesn't move, she hears a crack, and figure she's broken his hipbone. Three more arrows hit her, this time, they hit vitals. She refused to give up, and the pain is nothing compared to her determination to free him. She looked down, with distaste, at all the blood staining her white tunic. One last arrow hits her, and she fell to her knees. Because of the way she fell, a stray bamboo pole goes through her abdomen. She coughed up blood, and stared at her hand. She glanced up, and saw the moon behind Kuronue's lifeless body. It's stained red with demon blood. "I'm sorry Kuronue, I.. I couldn't. protect you.. And.. I wanted to tell you. tell you that i.." But all went black. ~*~*~*~ Read on to chapter 2.