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Fallen Angel

Chapter One

Compassion

There was blood pouring from his wounds, coating his green uniform to turn the light-olive colored uniform into dark, almost black wrappings. He thought he could take on the demon by himself, and he'd managed to bring it down and kill it with a powerful blast of his spirit gun, but not before he took some severe damage of his own. With his hand shaking, he reached into the torn pocket of his uniform to retrieve the tiny spherical communicator that would call help to his side. Botan would come, he'd get a portal to Genkai's shrine, and Yukina would heal him. He'd be fine, even if his body was protesting most harshly that he was not fine. He managed to flip open the corner of the communicator and Botan's cheery face popped up only to turn into a grimace of horror.

"Yusuke!" she shouted, making the toushin's ears twitch at the harsh sound.

"Yeah, no shit. Come and get me Botan!" he shouted as loud as he dared, as he scanned the area mentally for more demons or opponents that he might have missed. The blue haired grim reaper didn't waste any time and a few moments later, she appeared by his side and actually turned slightly green at the amount of blood and guts on the ground around the spirit detective. He gave her a questioning look before she moved to help him stand, and he nearly threw up as a wave of pain washed over him. He instantly placed a hand over his mid-section, where the blood was flowing dark, and unnaturally. He knew that something bad had been perforated by the sharp, unrelenting claws of the demon he had been fighting, but there was nothing he could do to staunch the blood; not with only one hand. The grim reaper didn't comment on the obviously harsh wounds, as she walked him gingerly back through the portal, this time one that led straight into Genkai's house.

The elder mentor to the toushin was the first to notice the severity of the wounds and she moved into action as she helped Botan move him into one of the rooms. She stripped down one of the beds and lay him down. Yusuke was just gritting his teeth to keep himself from screaming as the pain seared through him unmercifully. His breathing was labored and he nearly passed out from the movement of things inside of his body that shouldn't have been moving at all. He barely recognized Botan's voice when she asked Genkai where Yukina was. "She went into town with Kuwabara. I don't know when she'll be back, and he didn't want to be contacted by Koenma, so he left his communicator here." She answered with barely concealed worry in her voice. It could be minutes, or hours before her return, and there was no way to contact her. Yusuke wouldn't last hours without treatment. She was half tempted to take him to a human hospital, but to explain his wounds would be nearly impossible. If Hiei would have been there, she would have had him erase their memories but he wasn't, and if getting a hold of Yukina was difficult, getting a hold of Hiei was impossible. No one contacted Hiei unless he allowed them to contact him.

"I'll go see if I can find Kurama. He's not the best healer, but he has plants that could help." Botan said, moving to make another portal even as the thought escaped her lips. Genkai turned and said, "Wait!" The grim reaper looked with confusion to the elder manipulator.

"I know someone we can contact. She's a miko, and she has healing abilities. Powerful ones." Genkai said, without explaining further. She went and picked up the phone before dialing a number, one that was picked up after three rings.

"Hello, Higurashi residence." Came the voice on the other line. The voice was of a young girl, and Genkai fought back the urge to hang up. She had wanted to protect the girl from this life. She had trained the girl on the side for the past couple of years, but at Koenma's insistence, she had kept her from meeting the rest of the Reikai Tantei, and from introducing her to other demons in this time. But she wouldn't sacrifice Yusuke if she could save him. Promise or no promise, Yusuke would always come first to her.

"Kagome, I need your help." She said darkly, instantly gaining the miko's attention.

"Genkai-sama?" she questioned, her voice already bubbling with anxiety and apprehension. The energy manipulator never called her or contacted her in any way unless it was training related. She had been mysteriously contacted by the elder woman after her final trip through the well, the one that left her trapped in her own time, no longer free to roam between the Sengoku Jidai and the present. The woman came always to the shrine, she'd never gone to wherever the woman lived. At first, Kagome was wary of the woman, but as time went on, she learned to trust her. Genkai trained her how to use her power, and how to manipulate it much like the woman did her own power. If she'd known there was someone in her time who could have helped her use her dormant miko energies, she would have trained them long ago, and perhaps the final fight would have been different.

"Child, I have need of your power. A woman will be there in moments with blue hair, riding an oar. Don't question her appearance and go through the portal she will create." She said shortly, before nodding to the stunned ferry girl. Said ferry girl nodded and quickly opened a portal to the area directed by the elder manipulator.

"Of course, Genkai-sama." Kagome said softly, but firmly. Internally, her insides were a bunch of knots of worry and uncertainty. She didn't know what was wrong, but if she could help, she would do all in her power. She owed the woman for training her and teaching her the things she'd never known before about her power. With her teachings, Kagome was able to take care of the Shikon no Tama on her own, without worrying about getting other people hurt or involved in her duty. She heard the buzzing of the phone that indicated that the woman hung up on her end, and Kagome raced from the kitchen to the front alcove where her shoes were held, and one odd item: a bow with a quiver of arrows.

Quickly, she grabbed up the arrows and bow, and slipped on her tennis shoes. They were so much more practical than her school regulation shoes that she wore so often in the Feudal Era of Japan. She didn't have to inform her mother of where she was going; she and Souta were both gone with her grandfather to a summer vacationing spot in Kyoto. Kagome would have loved a vacation, but her worry about the Shikon being out in the open like that so far from the comfort and security of the shrine had her passing on the trip. She bound out of the front door and locked it behind her before she turned to meet the worried eyes of the person described by Genkai.

"Kagome?" the woman asked, even as the young miko nodded and raced across the few feet between them.

"I'm ready." She said, and the blue-haired ferry girl re-opened the portal that would take them both back to the energy manipulators, and to the direly injured Yusuke.

Those few moments that they were away, Genkai tried to place pressure on the large wound that crossed the toushin's stomach. He screamed in pain as soon as she touched the opening, unable to hold back expressing some of that anguish. "Fuck, Grandma!" he screamed out, as residual tears raced down his face.

"Feel free to scream, dimwit. After all, once you are healed we will be increasing our regiment's ten-fold." She informed him, as she attempted to keep her fear at his injuries hidden. Their eyes met before a foreign girl's voice broke over the room.

"Genkai-sama!" Kagome said, as she nearly fell to her knees as she came through the unusual portal that Botan had opened for her. It was unlike going from her time to the past, so she was disoriented slightly, but as soon as she saw blood her face instantly turned grim and focused. She moved around to the other side of the bed, and her eyes fell upon a young man. His hair was jet black, but it was dirty, and disheveled. The green uniform he was wearing was spread black with blood, and he was crying out his pain, though he seemed unaware of the tears. His hands were gingerly placed over his wound, covered in the brick red of his own blood. Sapphire eyes met chocolate brown and for a moment, his pain turned to shock, and confusion before it slipped back into agony as Genkai pressed again on the wounds.

He screamed again as he shouted out, "Stop fucking doing that!" Kagome nearly jumped at the scream, but at the use of profanity her expression gentled as she remembered another person who would have shouted the exact same thing. Her eyes lifted to Genkai before she said, "You're doing more harm than good. Please, let me take it from here, Genkai-sama."

The elder manipulator lifted her eyes in confusion and even defiance before she nodded once abruptly and stepped back with blood on her clothes and hands. A sheen of sweat was coating Yusuke's brow as he forced himself to keep breathing. His eyes lifted again to the girl who came to his side. She was like some sort of fallen angel, with blue-black hair and sapphire eyes. She felt of power, though he didn't know what kind of power it was. He didn't know what she planned to do, but before he could say anything, he felt her hand at his forehead, and that power that she was nearly soaked in flowed into his body. The last thing he heard before he passed out was, "Rest. When you wake up, everything will be fine." Her voice was just as soft as the touch of her hand and the last thing he saw was the warm, comforting smile and the tender compassion in her sapphire eyes.

Kagome watched his eyes close and with a soft breath, she moved her hands to quickly remove the remnants of his uniform from the wounds they were concealing from her sight. She grimaced at the squelching sound that the strips made, but as soon as they were removed, she shifted her hands over the larger of the lacerations and brought forth her power. It went deeply into his skin, and she nearly gasped at the feeling of his demon energy coming to meet her priestess powers. Her eyes flew to Genkai and the woman had the audacity to look guilty but she would not apologize for holding the information away from her pupil. Kagome knew demons existed, but she hadn't known or felt what Yusuke was. Perhaps the manipulator would have to teach her other uses for her power, but for now, as long as she healed the toushin, that was all she asked for.

Kagome focused back on her patient, and as the wounds finally began to close with fresh, smooth skin, tinged slightly red from healing so fast, she relaxed. Her hands floated over other wounds she found on his body and she felt the distinct drain as she poured her energies into him. He was a hanyou of some sort, and the young miko could almost see a shape of his inner demon as it came to greet her. She let her soothing power touch that part of him before she stepped back, and nearly fell back. She caught herself on a nearby chair before she looked to her teacher and the strange woman who came to fetch her. "He'll be fine. He just needs rest. The spell I used should hold for a few hours." She said softly, as she carefully walked around the bed, and looked to the blood-stained hands of the other two women.

She looked at her own hands and her eyes filled with sadness at the sight of his crimson life-force on them. Her eyes turned back to him before she shook her head and smiled softly. He would be fine. She had to believe that. She knew it, too, deep in her heart. He would heal. Just like Inuyasha had. She shook her head at the flood of memories that came to greet her as she turned back to Genkai. "Thank you, Kagome. You have done well, today." The woman said, as the young miko nodded, accepting the praise, but not fully believing in it. Her psyche had been damaged too much in the past, and she hadn't had the therapy needed to recover her sense of self. The woman knew nothing about the girl's fragile mind, and didn't bother to ask, either. Koenma knew briefly of it, but he believed that in her learning of her power that she would recover that piece of herself. That was not the case, but it was also something that Kagome herself didn't dwell on. There was no Kikyou or Inuyasha here to tear her down. Though, time wasn't a strong enough deterrent to protect her. Even now, a piece of herself was gone, somewhere in the world where she couldn't reach it. She shook off the slight ache at her center as she thought of that missing part, as she focused on the here and now. Holding her head as high as she was able, she looked back to the other woman; the one who retrieved her from her shrine.

"I must get back." She said softly, before Genkai nodded. She didn't want Koenma to find out that she'd had the girl here when he expressly forbade her to have any interaction with the Tantei. Botan, with a look of confusion and a glance of uncertainty to the energy manipulator, opened another portal and led the young miko through it back to her shrine. Kagome waited for Botan to disappear before she went inside and set down her arrows and bow back by the door. She slid off her shoes before she moved towards the living room. The energy drain on her was great and she fell onto the couch unceremoniously as she passed out, blacking out to the rest of the world.

Hours later, Yusuke's eyes flew open and he reached his hand down to place over his stomach. He expected to feel his insides and fresh blood, but all he felt was the soft, yet firmness of his own skin. His hands were clean of blood, courtesy of Yukina, and he was in a pair of pajama pants that stayed here at Genkai's. His eyes flew around the room as if to find the source of his healing, or the girl with the brilliant sapphire eyes that lulled him into some sort of dreamless sleep. Finally, not finding her or anyone else for that matter in the room, he bellowed out, "Grandma? Where in the hell are you?"

His door creaked open and he slowly tried to lift from his spot on the bed, only to wince lightly. It didn't hurt per se, but the skin had healed too quickly and hadn't been stretched properly as it healed, so the feeling was unusual and almost felt like it itched. The person behind the door wasn't who he'd called for though, as Yukina came into the room. "Yusuke?" she questioned, as she came more fully into the room with a tray of soup and a glass of water.

His expression softened a few notches as he looked to the cerulean eyes of the koorime. They were beautiful, but they weren't the eyes he remembered. He was sure the pain might have made him hallucinate who was by his side, but he didn't think he could have made up such a vision. "Yukina…hey, do you know where Genkai is?" he questioned, as he watched her cross the room and place the tray on his bedside table.

"She went out a little while ago. She didn't tell me where she was going. Do you feel like you could eat something?" she questioned, as she took a seat in the chair beside his bed. The toushin looked angry, and disappointed as he glared at the door, but at the mention of food, he turned back to the koorime. He looked to the hot food and felt his stomach twitch. He wasn't sure if that was because of the injuries or the smell of food, but he wouldn't pass up a free, hot meal. He leaned up gingerly against the headboard of the bed before he placed the tray over his lap, and started to eat the tasty soup. His eyes remained full of concentration as he forced himself to remember what had happened before he fell asleep.

"Wasn't there someone else here, earlier?" he questioned her as he finished his food under her watchful eye. The koorime looked confused as she shook her head.

"No, no one else has been here that I know of. Kazuma dropped me off back here a little while ago, and Genkai said that you had been injured and to keep an eye on you. You have been sleeping since I returned. Why do you ask?" she asked him as she gave him her own version of worried eyes. If he imagined someone else there then it may have been a very serious injury indeed.

He shook his head before saying, "Never mind. The soup was great, thanks. It really hit the spot." He said, changing the topic of conversation. The young koorime blushed lightly before smiling and nodding. She took the tray wordlessly as she stood, and moved towards the doorway.

"You're welcome. If you feel up to it, Hiei, Kurama, and Kazuma are all here in the living room. I believe Kurama was making you something to help ease your pain." She informed him before she disappeared out of the room. He moved his legs out of the bed and again he winced as he felt his skin pull where it had healed together. He finally looked down at where his injuries were worst and his eyes widened in shock. There was not even a scar remaining. Even Yukina couldn't have done so good of a job on his horrible injuries. His hand gingerly touched the pale skin again before he moved to stand. He felt almost normal except for the pull of his skin as he walked each step gingerly towards the door. He opened it slowly before he peered his head out and saw that indeed, his teammates were in the living room. The television was on, but it didn't look as if they were interested in it.

Yusuke frowned before he moved out of the room and down the hallway lightly, with his hand on the wall for extra balance. His stomach muscles stretched and moved uncomfortably as he moved, but otherwise he felt no pain as he made his way down the corridor. Kurama was the first to acknowledge him as he stood and moved towards the toushin. "Yusuke, we heard you were hurt badly. Are you alright?" he questioned, even as he inspected the other man for injuries or wounds that would need further healing.

He shook his head at the question before saying, "Nah, it was nothing serious." He didn't want to worry them about the demon; and the fact remained that he killed the demon and he came out alive, by some miracle that he couldn't fully remember.

"That's right. Nuthin' could keep you down, Urameshi." Kuwabara spoke up with a grin as he noticed his friend entering the room. Hiei didn't speak as he moved from the wall towards the toushin with swift, almost angry strides.

"You smell of a miko." He said, as his eyes did all but bore holes into the toushin's. Kurama started before he allowed Youko more access to the surface of his skin and Kuwabara turned in his chair to feel out what the hiyoukai apparently felt, or smelled, on the toushin. Both felt the lingering traces of holy priestess energy on their friend and Yusuke looked back at them with confusion.

"A miko?" he questioned, as he looked to the worried, and shocked, looks of his friends. "A miko…healed me?" he questioned aloud as he looked with bewilderment to those around him. Hiei blinked, his own confusion evident and Kurama looked worried as he moved to place an arm around Yusuke's shoulders.

"Maybe you better sit down and tell us what you remember before you woke up." He advised as he helped the toushin to an empty chair. Yusuke wasn't sure what to make of the situation and he didn't really want to share what he remembered, but if he wanted to have any luck finding the girl who saved his life and healed him he would have better chances if he shared with his fellow teammates.

"Well I was fighting the demon, and he got in on me. He swiped at me pretty bad before I blasted his ass. I called Botan to come and get me with my communicator, and she brought me here. Grandma took me to my room, and after that it's kind of fuzzy. Someone was going to go get you, Kurama, but the next thing I know, there's this girl beside my bed and she said…" he paused, as he frowned and each of his teammates looked to him curiously before he repeated softly, "…Rest. When you wake up, everything will be fine." Each demon looked at him with intense scrutiny as Kuwabara said with a laugh, "Are you sure you didn't imagine some girl saying that?" he teased the toushin.

Yusuke growled before he shouted out, "Fuck no, I didn't imagine her! How the hell else did I get healed if she wasn't the one who did it? No offense Hiei, but Yukina doesn't have the ability to heal like this." He said, gesturing to his smooth skin as he looked into the crimson eyes of the hiyoukai. Hiei would have started a fight if the toushin hadn't have been right. His sister was a great healer, but she did not have the ability to leave the skin without scars. He didn't know anyone who had that kind of healing ability. Kuwabara looked as if he were going to comment back about that, but Kurama beat him to the punch.

"It is true that this is an extraordinary amount of healing in so short a time. Do you remember what she looked like?" he questioned, as he looked again at the healed tissue on Yusuke's torso.

"She had long black hair and blue eyes." He said simply, trying not to act like she had had an effect on him. Her hand had been so soft, and her eyes had been so tender and warm; no one had ever looked at him like that before, not even Keiko or his own mother.

"Blue eyes? That's rare for a Japanese person. Perhaps she was a foreigner?" Kurama commented lightly as he leaned back and gave Yusuke a little breathing room. Hiei was trying to relax but at the thought of a miko being at the same temple where his sister resided was making him very uneasy.

"Have you both forgotten that a miko was here?" he questioned harshly as he gripped the hilt of his katana in order to steady himself so he wouldn't go searching for her vague scent and kill her for being that close to his sibling. Miko's were danger, and dangerous to his kind. He didn't know what her game was to be healing Yusuke, even if he was only half-demon, but he didn't like it. He didn't trust the situation.

"So? She could have killed me but she healed me, and healed me better than anyone else could have. Grandma had to have let her come in or she wouldn't have been here. She must trust her." Yusuke spoke up as his voice grew in volume. The girl hadn't done anything but heal him, and she let him get the rest he so desperately needed, and Hiei was already calling for retribution. She hadn't hurt him or anyone else. If the hiyoukai thought that he was going to kill the miko just for being what she was, he had another thing coming.

Kurama saw the argument brewing to new and dangerous levels and he spoke up to intervene but before he could say anything, a familiar voice spoke up. "None of you will touch her or go near her or I will kill you myself."

Four heads turned to meet the old, wizened face of Genkai and she frowned fiercely at them. "She will not come near you, or go after you. She did me a favor, coming here to heal Yusuke. You will leave her alone or face the consequences." She said with a gravelly voice.

"Who is she, Genkai?" Kurama asked politely, as if his charm would gather him the answers he sought more than the forcefulness that his fellow teammates were prone to use.

"None of your business, fox." She replied in that same dark voice. "She is under Koenma's protection and more importantly, mine. She is a miko, that is true, but she is a very unconventional miko, and she is to be left alone. Do you understand me?" she questioned, as she gave a piercing glare to each of the Tantei in turn.

The kitsune was shocked at the manipulators stance but he realized that she wouldn't give him any more information. Hiei looked unsatisfied with the reply but he begrudgingly admitted to himself that if Genkai and Koenma spoke for this unknown miko, that he and his sister were safe from danger of purification. Yusuke was the one most displeased with this turn of events and the answers that Genkai was hiding from all of them. Kuwabara seemed unconcerned and turned back to the television. Kurama was holding back a smirk at the thought of finding out who this mystery girl was and breaking through the red-tape so to speak to find her. Youko was always looking for a challenge or a puzzle and a miko that had the power to heal without leaving any scars was an interesting find indeed.

Genkai sighed unceremoniously and moved towards the back of the house. "I mean it guys. She has earned what little peace she can find. Leave her alone." She said, earning another confused, and intrigued look from those who were interested in the mystery girl. Hiei frowned again before he moved out of the house and into the nearby forests. He could detect no scent of her out here so she must have been brought into Yusuke's room specifically by portal. That reassured him that she wasn't traipsing around outside on the grounds. She had been brought in to heal Yusuke, and then taken away again. With a slight nod of satisfaction, he let his lingering worries slip away as he relaxed in one of his favorite trees.

Yusuke followed Genkai out of the room, hell bent on getting some answers, more than what she was sharing at present. "Who was she, Grandma? What's her name?" he questioned as he followed the elder woman towards the kitchen.

Kurama kept his senses open to hear any other valuable information that he might obtain. He knew that the toushin was special to the energy manipulator and that might mean that she would give him more information than she would to the rest of them, teammates or not. Genkai turned around and growled lightly at her apprentice before she said, "No, Yusuke. She saved your life. I owe her at least the secrecy of her name." her eyes softened lightly, a motion not missed by the toushin before her eyes hardened again. It was more than one reason that kept her mouth shut where the girl was concerned. Koenma was a huge reason, but knowing what she did know of the girl's past was a key factor as well. She had come to respect the girl's spitfire personality and the inner strength that she held even in the face of adversity. It reminded her of Yusuke. She had been toyed with far worse than the toushin had and she still managed to smile. It made the older woman admire her, though she admired very few.

Yusuke was ready to turn this into a grade A shouting match, but the woman didn't give him a chance. "Besides, you shouldn't be worried about her. You remember what I said about our new training regiments?" she said, with a glittering maliciousness in her eyes. The toushin gulped nervously before he said, "Hey, I just got out of bed, shouldn't I rest some more before we get started?" he held out his hands in a placating gesture even as he moved back down the hall towards his room.

"Nonsense. Why put off to tomorrow what you can do today?" she replied with an almost evil smirk. Kurama held in a chuckle at his friend's misfortune, as he moved to vacate the house. He hadn't received any new information, but he could at least try a search on his own. It had been centuries since he was able to pull out all of the stops in pursuit of anything. He was well-known and he had all sorts of connections in the human realm as well as the Makai. If he truly wanted something, or to find someone, all he had to do was ask his informants and within hours he would obtain whatever he wished. He had a feeling that this situation would be different. If Koenma was keeping it a secret, he wondered how hard he would have to try to gain the information he sought. Already, Youko was pleased at the thought of tracking down someone that seemed so out of reach. It pleased the part of him that loved a challenge. He almost pitied how soon the chase would be over, for he knew that if he really tried, he would find the mysterious girl soon enough.

He would be frustrated long before he gained the answers he sought.

A/N: Supposed to be a one-shot, but it turned out to be more than that. This won't be long though, a possibly two or three shot. Hope you enjoy.

Thank you to those who favorite, review, and watch this. I appreciate the enthusiasm and encouragement.

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