The Night the Moon Burned

A Yu Yu Hakusho Fanfiction

Chapter 1

There was a knock on the front door and Suichi's mother set down the plate she was drying to go answer it. Opening the door she smiled genly and said, "Hello," and looked into the face of a girl about the age of her elder son Suichi. The girl had deep blue eyes, bright red hair and was almost three inches taller than Suichi's mother. "Excuse me, ma'am, is this where Suichi lives?"

"Yes, are you a class mate of his or something?"

"Uh, no, not exactly, could you please make sure he recieves this letter it is of the utmost importantce that he get it immediately if possible."

"Oh, okay, he's upstairs studying if you'd like to come in and give it to him yourself?"

"No thank you, ma'am. Good day," the girl replied and turned to leave when Suichi's mother stopped her.

"Dear, don't you have any shoes? I know that our lawn is safe to walk barefoot in but I can't say that about the rest of the neighborhood and you could step on something and hurt you feet. Why don't you come in and I'll see if I have any shoes that I can give you?"
"No, ma'am, I do not have any shoes, but I could not impose on your home simply for a pair of shoes and besides it smells like you were in the middle of cooking something."

"Nonsense, you're not imposing, in fact why don't you stay for dinner! We don't usually get guests and it would be nice to have another woman in the house for a change. Please, come in and stay for dinner and dessert at least, I insist."

"Ma'am, I really should not, I am a stranger to you and I have no way to repay you for your kindness."

"Repay me! Fine if that's what you're feeling so bad about then you can repay me by providing me with the presence of antother woman in the house and helping me do the dishes after dinner. Does that sound alright to you?"

"Ah-"

"Oh! Forgive me your mother must be wanting you home for dinner and that's why you're refusing! I'm so sorry, I guess I'll let you go then. But do come back and visit, and invite your family, here's our number you just call me and let me know if you'd like to come over. And here's some shoes why don't you try them on and see if they fit, if you don't like them just let me know and I'll give you some money to buy yourself a pair that better suits you."

The girl sat down and put the shoes on, "They fit just fine, ma'am, thank you very much. I am sorry but I must be going. Please make sure that Suichi gets that note as soon as posible, it is very important." The girl said another goodbye and left. Suichi's mother closed the door and smiled, What a nice, polite, girl, she thought, then headed up the stairs to give Suichi the letter. She knocked softly on his door and called to him, "Suichi, you have a very important letter, I was told you should read it immediately. The girl who dilivered it looked to be about your age, she was a very pretty red head, I asked if she knew you from school but she said she didn't. I wonder who she was and how she knows you. Hmm..."

Suichi left his desk where he was studying and took the letter from his mother thanking her, she told him dinner would be ready soon and then closed his door behind her. Suichi looked at the envelope as he headed back to his desk, it was thick and a cream color. Flipping it over he saw a seal that was invisible to humans and a protection that only the sealer and designated reciever of the letter could break. That's strange, demons don't usually send letters addressed to humans. He gently slid his nail under the seal and pulled out a two page letter written on thick paper the same color as the envelope. It read:

Dear Yoko Kurama,

Or is it Suichi now? I always forget that you go by a human name sometimes; well I must get to the point shouldn't I? So, here it goes, if you've recieved this letter from a red haired girl that beautiful, talented, young woman is your DAUGHTER! I know weird right? How can I have a daughter I don't recal doing anything so reckless as that? Welp, ya did, and Mikono is the product of your stupidity. Not that I regret giving birth to such an amazing young woman but... actually throw out the script I'm just gonna write what I want regardless of weather it makes sense or not. You probably don't remember because you were drunk beyond belief but you and I got togher and had a little party shortly before you got killed and headed to the human world, otherwise I would've told you about her sooner and tried to get you involved in raising her. But, hey, you din't know you were going to have a kid or get killed before her birth. So, it's taken me until now to find you, I can't come and talk to you personally because... and I'm a little embarassed to write this but I'm about to die and by the time you get this letter I'll probably already be gone. But who knows, maybe I'll be able to become human like you did. As soon as I got wounded I knew I probably wasn't going to survive so I told Mikono about you and wrote this letter to try and explain things. Obviously I'm not doing a very good job but give me a break I'M DYING! Mikono is only a few months younger than you in human years and I thought it might be good for her to move to the human world and get to spend some of her life with her father and then she could choose which world she wants to live in and what she want's her life to be like. Heh, she reminds me so much of you, so strong willed, red hair, precise way of speaking... then she's also like me in that she's stuborn, hard headed, and protective over anything and everything she feels needs protecting. But she's also very understanding and loving and careing and motherly. Mikono is such a sweet girl she refuses to leave me until she knows I'm safe. She says she's going to make sure that an old friend of yours can take care of me before she heads off to deliver this letter to you.

Oh, and did I mention that she's a shapeshifter? She can only change into animals but it's come in handy being able to travel so much quicker now...

The letter continued on in a similar fashion and Suichi read until the end, there was a blood spatter on it and the signiture of the woman who had written it. The only woman in demon world that Yoko had taken a liking to and probably would have made his mate if he hadn't of died. He wasn't positive this Mikono was his daughter he wanted to find her and make sure before he made any serious decisions on what to do about her, but this was an interesting turn of events.

In a tree not too far from Suichi's home, Mikono sat with her eyes closed waiting to find out what her 'father' would do. Just like Suichi, she didn't believe they were related and refused to believe it until she had proof of it; she didn't want to believe that someone as amazing as Yoko Kurama could be her father and then die so easily. It made her feel that if he was her father then she might end up some day slipping up like him. But, she shouldn't jude him before even meeting him, her mother taught her better than that, and Suichi's mother seemed like a very nice woman so maybe this Suichi would make a great father someday, because Mikono highly doubted him trying to be her father, when in human terms they were so close in age, would work out. Sighing she jumped out of the tree and shifted into a swallow, one of her favorite birds and flew off to find somewhere to stay.

The Night the Moon Burned

A Yu Yu Hakusho Fanficton

Chapter 2