Here There Be Naught
By Keo Siph
All Yu Yu Hakusho characters are owned by Togashi Yoshihiro/Sheisha, Fuji TV, Pierrot, and FUNimation.
It had failed. Our perfectly good plan to protect Keiko, Shizuru, Botan, Yukina… Okaasan, had failed. The last of which stood no more than ten meters ahead, bleeding. Crying, bleeding. Dying.
Leaving me in a cruel, but saved, world. Not again.
Never. Never… Her delicate, skirt-covered knees ground against the sediment washed up by the recent swell of demons from the river. A tall, underfed beast stood before her, long fingers and claws doused in a bhuman girl's blood.
I could only guess.
When their blood mixed, I was just returning from my clash with pure instinct, my thought process returning to how it should be. Her head fell against my leg as I turned, dark hair falling over my light jeans and the edge of my brown jacket.
"Guess you forgot who was protecting Mrs. Minamino…"
Emerald eyes took in the gray hair of a dear friend.
Bot not one he cared for too much. Not as much as… "Okaasan…?"
"Okaasan?"
"Okaasan?"
Yana's brush head slipped past Kurama, connecting with the concrete.
He met the eyes of Keiko, Yukina, Botan, Shizuru through the doorway of the safe house. The four girls stood between the two tentei and Okaasan.
The black-haired raven of a mother who was ominous, secretive, protectful, serene, and… alive, and also peering ovce the rather short shoudlers of the two girls was calmly meeting the dread-filled gaze of her fox.
Yana' smiled in the muck of blood and grime.
"Not even death makes me stand out much, eh Kurama? Just like everyone else."
There was a flurry of motion from the three girls, but it wasn't until later that, in the parting of the clouds, it was obvious that Mitsunari Yanagisawa was beyond saving.
The son and mother stood very still for a long time.