ATTENTION::: I DO NOT OWN YU YU HAKUSHO!!! I SORELY WISH I DID, BUT alas, I do not. Now enough shakespeare crap. On to the story!!! CHAAAAARRRGE!
Kuwabara banged his head down on his desk. "Crap."
The window near his bed was slightly opened, but he did not notice it. A dark yet feminine figure stood on the ledge. Her eyes glowed a creepy green, watching him.
"I'll never get all of this studying done. Wonder if....?" He looked at his math book. "Naw, Kurama's probably not even awake. Dang."
"Kazuma..." She whispered into the night air. Dipping out of sight at his slow gaze, she still watched him.
"Huh? Wh-who's there?" He scratched his head and got up to close the window. "Hey!!! Who're you?"
"Heh, I should've known you would sense me. You're good like that, Kazuma," She said. Her light brown flew gently in the wind, eerie.
"How do you know my name?"
"I know much more than you could dream. Like your love of Yukina-san, Hiei's sister. And your best friend, Yusuke Urameshi. Who is, at his exact moment, about to call you." She smiled at him, and watched him jump when the phone rang.
"Hello? Oh, uh, hi Urameshi. That's freaky...." He looked at the girl standing on his window ledge, and shook his head. "No, I'm just trying to study for a math test tomorrow. Huh? New case? Sure. Uh, I'll try. Will Yukina-chan be there? No? Dangit. She-what?!!! How could she....Sure. Sayanora."
"And Yukina-san has a date tomorrow. With an icedemon. I'm sorry," She crouched lower.
"Who are you? Why are you here?" He sat down on his bed, still looking at her.
"I am known only as Kuro Kaze, Black Wind. I don't exactly know why I'm here. I just picked a place to be, and I am here, now. I'm sorry if I frightened you," She whispered.
"Oooookay. You're freakin me out now, lady. I'm going to slowly close the window and wake up from this dream," He told himself, and reached for the window.
"Kazuma Kuwabara, you can't run away. Not now. You're too far deep. Goodnight, prince..." She faded into the darkness as the window creaked closed.
"Prince? Wierdo." He yawned and shut off the lights in his room. As he fell into her induced sleep, he thought he saw her green eyes staring deep into his soul.
"So, what's the deal, Koenma? Another youkai terrorizing the safety of all humans? Another stupid baka tournament?" Yusuke leaned against the wall of the reikai prince's office.
"No. This time it is a human terrorizing the safety of the Makai. She's known as the Kuro Kaze, the Black Wind." The teen prince bit into his pacifier, worriedly.
"Th-the B-Black Wind?" Kuwabara swallowed.
"Yes. What's gotten into you, Kuwabara?" Koenma looked at him.
"She p-paid me a little visit last night. Told me Yukina-chan had a date today, and that Urameshi would be calling me. Even before he did. She even knew my name..." He shivered.
"Strange. She must possess the prophecy as well," Kurama whispered.
"What prophecy?" Hiei glared at the earth, burning a hole in it with his gaze.
"There is a prophecy which states, specificaly, that a human bearing a sword that is not solid and a human known for being as the wind will unite and bring the end of the barrier of the worlds. But, instead of the demons overruning the Ningenkai, they will take control over them and give them a land to the west. They will intermingle with the humans there and create an invincible race, which will then overtake the world and the two who govern them. Bringing an altogether end to Earth as we know it," The youko explained.
"A sword that is not solid?" Yusuke looked at Kuwabara.
"Hey, my spirit sword is solid!!! How else can it cut through stuff!!!" He looked very stressed.
"Actually, Spirit energy is not solid. It just has basically the same idea as fire, it can burn through items. So no, the sword is not solid...oaf," Hiei mumbled.
"What was that, shrimp!!!!!!!!!"
"I said what your small brain couldn't possibly understand, Ugly."
"Hey! Atleast I don't feel the rain twenty minutes after everyone else!!!"
"Break it up! So, Kuwabara and this chick who appears at windows in the middle of the night will rule the world and break the barrier between our world and theirs. What are we supposed to do?" Yusuke stepped inbetween the two quarreling beings.
"You are supposed to kill Kuro Kaze. If she remains alive, then the prophecy will fulfill itself. No matter what, she is not to survive." Koenma closed his eyes. "The sad thing is...She is not against us. I have worked with her before, her intentions are far from evil."
"But you want to keep the world we live in at peace." Kurama blinked his emerald eyes.
"Yes. I regret having to do this....but Kuro Kaze is the enemy. She has to be killed."
"So, where is this Kuro Kaze?" Yusuke crammed his hands into his pockets.
"Uh....I think she's up there." Kuwabara looked up.
A girl roughly the size of Keiko stood on the edge of Koenma's sunroof. Her green eyes pierced through the five, seemingly to peer into their souls. Her hair blew around her head, as did her blue cloak did around her lithe body.
"Kuro..." Koenma whispered.
"She's....beautiful...." Hiei said, it being barely audible.
"Are you feeling alright, Hiei?" Yusuke broght his gaze to the demon.
"Kazuma...." She said, almost sadly. The next moment, she was gone again.
"She knows of our plans. You may need to draw her out of hiding, to catch her. Good luck. I suspect she will stay close to the Ningenkai, closer to the bearer of the sword which is not solid." Koenma chuckled.
"Why me?" Kuwabara thunked his head on the nearest wall, wearily.
"My Kazuma..." She whispered. She watched as he went through his classes, perched on the outer ledge of the roof.
"You've been watching him for a long time, Kuro," A cold voice behind her said.
"Hmm? Oh, it's you, Hiei. Yes." She looked at the fire demon.
"You know I must kill you. Yet you are most relaxed in my presence." He crossed his arms.
"You do not have the heart to kill an old love. But you know now of the prophecy, the one which my father made on his deathbed. Leave me to watch my Prince's movements." She did not look at him. It was too painful.
"'Your Prince'? You have gotten soft, Kuro Kaze. Black Wind," He said.
"Yes, Hiei. I have gotten soft. You have only gotten to be more of an icy fire demon. You are good that way, Hiei."
"Good? I am not good. If I was good, I would have stayed far away from you." He looked away. "I wouldn't have saved you all those years ago."
"It was not so long ago. Not more than a few years. We were young then. You said I was beautiful."
"You were, and still are."
"No, now I am just a lost human trying to fill her father's prophecy. You are a strong fire demon, smart enough to steer clear of a lost love." She blinked furiously. "Atleast, I thought you were."
"Do you want me to hide your existance, what? I can fake your death, and you can still live."
"No. The prophecy will still be. I know I am condemned to die. I just want to choose, either death now or to prolong my life and my suffering."
"So be it. I tried, Kuro. I tried years ago and I still try now. You will get nowhere with the oaf. He is too dense to understand the prophecy." He sat by her side. "He even denied his sword being unsolid."
"He is not the sharpest sword in the armory. But he is the only human with such a blade of energy."
"You....you do not like him."
"He would not be my first pick. You know that."
"Who would be? Certainly not me?"
"I've always loved you, Hiei. You know that."
"Maybe I have forgotten." He watched the humans below. Like little sheep, they were. All working for one goal, to have the best life possible until they die. Like lambs waiting for the slaughterhouse.
"Your head has, maybe, but not your heart. Not your heart, Hiei." She looked at him. He had silent tears streaming down his face.
"I have to keep up the dumb act for the others. It pained me to see you sad, yesterday. You should be miles from here."
"I should be here. I should've already taken Kazuma to my mother's castle, so that our destiny can be manifested."
"Why haven't you?"
"Isn't it obvious? I always think of you when I see him. I have watched every fight of yours, Hiei. Even against Yusuke."
"Even Sieryu?"
She nodded. Soon, the space beside Hiei was empty. She left him there to cry, to weep unforgettable tears.
Kuwabara waited at the corner of two streets. Yusuke was in the shadows, and Kurama was hiding in a near tree. Hiei had not been heard from in several days.
"Kazuma. You even brought your friends." She appeared perched on the street light above him.
"Hi, Kuro." He looked up at her.
"Are you ready to fulfill the prophecy?" She sighed.
"No, he's not!!!" Yusuke leapt out of the shadows as Kurama's rosewhip severed the street lamp.
She fell to the ground, hitting it with a splintering crack. Tears of both pain and finality fell from her eyes. Her left arm hung at a difficult angle, explaining the splintered crack.
"Thank you." She whispered to all three of them, closing her eyes.
"For what? You know you are to die." Kurama stood above her.
"For letting me live long enough to see him one last time." She smiled. "For letting my heart rest knowing Hiei is not dead."
"Hiei? I thought you were after Kuwabara." Yusuke still had his Spirit Gun fired up.
"I was. But I didn't want to fulfill the prophecy. I was raised here, and I love it. Now please, kill me." She begged him.
"That explains why Hiei isn't here." Kurama held the Rosewhip.
"Kill me. Your earth won't be safe until I sleep eternally. Otherwise I will die along with all of humanity, years from now. Or you could just kill Kazuma." She looked at the stormy sky, as lightning crackled.
"Goodbye, Black Wind. Huh?" Yusuke aimed his Spirit Gun at her, but looked up. Hiei was there, standing in front of Kuro Kaze.
"Let me kill her. Please." The fire demon was crying. He held a sword, which looked to be made of the wind itself.
"Hiei...The sword which is not solid..." She breathed.
He nodded. Taking her good hand, he raised it with one hand. But a strange thing happened. At his touch, they were transported. Her home in the Makai soon materialized around them, the rain shared in the ningen world punding above them.
"The prophecy...was wrong..." She sat up.
"Your father was a lier. He wasn't even a human." He helped her up, and sheathed the unsolid sword.
"So now, what?" She cradled her arm.
A piece of paper found her gaze. It was written in her father's handwriting. 'I was wrong. I'm sorry, Queen of the Makai.'
"So, we're the royal couple now? Great..." Hiei took his seat at the throne in the room. Kuro Kaze Sat in the other throne, still crying.
"Hiei...Where did you find the sword?" A smaller demon came out to tend her wounds, as many others filled the room.
"It came to me. I can't explain." He looked at them all.
"Oh, Hiei, you've always been so good that way..." She said, and smiled.
Kuwabara banged his head down on his desk. "Crap."
The window near his bed was slightly opened, but he did not notice it. A dark yet feminine figure stood on the ledge. Her eyes glowed a creepy green, watching him.
"I'll never get all of this studying done. Wonder if....?" He looked at his math book. "Naw, Kurama's probably not even awake. Dang."
"Kazuma..." She whispered into the night air. Dipping out of sight at his slow gaze, she still watched him.
"Huh? Wh-who's there?" He scratched his head and got up to close the window. "Hey!!! Who're you?"
"Heh, I should've known you would sense me. You're good like that, Kazuma," She said. Her light brown flew gently in the wind, eerie.
"How do you know my name?"
"I know much more than you could dream. Like your love of Yukina-san, Hiei's sister. And your best friend, Yusuke Urameshi. Who is, at his exact moment, about to call you." She smiled at him, and watched him jump when the phone rang.
"Hello? Oh, uh, hi Urameshi. That's freaky...." He looked at the girl standing on his window ledge, and shook his head. "No, I'm just trying to study for a math test tomorrow. Huh? New case? Sure. Uh, I'll try. Will Yukina-chan be there? No? Dangit. She-what?!!! How could she....Sure. Sayanora."
"And Yukina-san has a date tomorrow. With an icedemon. I'm sorry," She crouched lower.
"Who are you? Why are you here?" He sat down on his bed, still looking at her.
"I am known only as Kuro Kaze, Black Wind. I don't exactly know why I'm here. I just picked a place to be, and I am here, now. I'm sorry if I frightened you," She whispered.
"Oooookay. You're freakin me out now, lady. I'm going to slowly close the window and wake up from this dream," He told himself, and reached for the window.
"Kazuma Kuwabara, you can't run away. Not now. You're too far deep. Goodnight, prince..." She faded into the darkness as the window creaked closed.
"Prince? Wierdo." He yawned and shut off the lights in his room. As he fell into her induced sleep, he thought he saw her green eyes staring deep into his soul.
"So, what's the deal, Koenma? Another youkai terrorizing the safety of all humans? Another stupid baka tournament?" Yusuke leaned against the wall of the reikai prince's office.
"No. This time it is a human terrorizing the safety of the Makai. She's known as the Kuro Kaze, the Black Wind." The teen prince bit into his pacifier, worriedly.
"Th-the B-Black Wind?" Kuwabara swallowed.
"Yes. What's gotten into you, Kuwabara?" Koenma looked at him.
"She p-paid me a little visit last night. Told me Yukina-chan had a date today, and that Urameshi would be calling me. Even before he did. She even knew my name..." He shivered.
"Strange. She must possess the prophecy as well," Kurama whispered.
"What prophecy?" Hiei glared at the earth, burning a hole in it with his gaze.
"There is a prophecy which states, specificaly, that a human bearing a sword that is not solid and a human known for being as the wind will unite and bring the end of the barrier of the worlds. But, instead of the demons overruning the Ningenkai, they will take control over them and give them a land to the west. They will intermingle with the humans there and create an invincible race, which will then overtake the world and the two who govern them. Bringing an altogether end to Earth as we know it," The youko explained.
"A sword that is not solid?" Yusuke looked at Kuwabara.
"Hey, my spirit sword is solid!!! How else can it cut through stuff!!!" He looked very stressed.
"Actually, Spirit energy is not solid. It just has basically the same idea as fire, it can burn through items. So no, the sword is not solid...oaf," Hiei mumbled.
"What was that, shrimp!!!!!!!!!"
"I said what your small brain couldn't possibly understand, Ugly."
"Hey! Atleast I don't feel the rain twenty minutes after everyone else!!!"
"Break it up! So, Kuwabara and this chick who appears at windows in the middle of the night will rule the world and break the barrier between our world and theirs. What are we supposed to do?" Yusuke stepped inbetween the two quarreling beings.
"You are supposed to kill Kuro Kaze. If she remains alive, then the prophecy will fulfill itself. No matter what, she is not to survive." Koenma closed his eyes. "The sad thing is...She is not against us. I have worked with her before, her intentions are far from evil."
"But you want to keep the world we live in at peace." Kurama blinked his emerald eyes.
"Yes. I regret having to do this....but Kuro Kaze is the enemy. She has to be killed."
"So, where is this Kuro Kaze?" Yusuke crammed his hands into his pockets.
"Uh....I think she's up there." Kuwabara looked up.
A girl roughly the size of Keiko stood on the edge of Koenma's sunroof. Her green eyes pierced through the five, seemingly to peer into their souls. Her hair blew around her head, as did her blue cloak did around her lithe body.
"Kuro..." Koenma whispered.
"She's....beautiful...." Hiei said, it being barely audible.
"Are you feeling alright, Hiei?" Yusuke broght his gaze to the demon.
"Kazuma...." She said, almost sadly. The next moment, she was gone again.
"She knows of our plans. You may need to draw her out of hiding, to catch her. Good luck. I suspect she will stay close to the Ningenkai, closer to the bearer of the sword which is not solid." Koenma chuckled.
"Why me?" Kuwabara thunked his head on the nearest wall, wearily.
"My Kazuma..." She whispered. She watched as he went through his classes, perched on the outer ledge of the roof.
"You've been watching him for a long time, Kuro," A cold voice behind her said.
"Hmm? Oh, it's you, Hiei. Yes." She looked at the fire demon.
"You know I must kill you. Yet you are most relaxed in my presence." He crossed his arms.
"You do not have the heart to kill an old love. But you know now of the prophecy, the one which my father made on his deathbed. Leave me to watch my Prince's movements." She did not look at him. It was too painful.
"'Your Prince'? You have gotten soft, Kuro Kaze. Black Wind," He said.
"Yes, Hiei. I have gotten soft. You have only gotten to be more of an icy fire demon. You are good that way, Hiei."
"Good? I am not good. If I was good, I would have stayed far away from you." He looked away. "I wouldn't have saved you all those years ago."
"It was not so long ago. Not more than a few years. We were young then. You said I was beautiful."
"You were, and still are."
"No, now I am just a lost human trying to fill her father's prophecy. You are a strong fire demon, smart enough to steer clear of a lost love." She blinked furiously. "Atleast, I thought you were."
"Do you want me to hide your existance, what? I can fake your death, and you can still live."
"No. The prophecy will still be. I know I am condemned to die. I just want to choose, either death now or to prolong my life and my suffering."
"So be it. I tried, Kuro. I tried years ago and I still try now. You will get nowhere with the oaf. He is too dense to understand the prophecy." He sat by her side. "He even denied his sword being unsolid."
"He is not the sharpest sword in the armory. But he is the only human with such a blade of energy."
"You....you do not like him."
"He would not be my first pick. You know that."
"Who would be? Certainly not me?"
"I've always loved you, Hiei. You know that."
"Maybe I have forgotten." He watched the humans below. Like little sheep, they were. All working for one goal, to have the best life possible until they die. Like lambs waiting for the slaughterhouse.
"Your head has, maybe, but not your heart. Not your heart, Hiei." She looked at him. He had silent tears streaming down his face.
"I have to keep up the dumb act for the others. It pained me to see you sad, yesterday. You should be miles from here."
"I should be here. I should've already taken Kazuma to my mother's castle, so that our destiny can be manifested."
"Why haven't you?"
"Isn't it obvious? I always think of you when I see him. I have watched every fight of yours, Hiei. Even against Yusuke."
"Even Sieryu?"
She nodded. Soon, the space beside Hiei was empty. She left him there to cry, to weep unforgettable tears.
Kuwabara waited at the corner of two streets. Yusuke was in the shadows, and Kurama was hiding in a near tree. Hiei had not been heard from in several days.
"Kazuma. You even brought your friends." She appeared perched on the street light above him.
"Hi, Kuro." He looked up at her.
"Are you ready to fulfill the prophecy?" She sighed.
"No, he's not!!!" Yusuke leapt out of the shadows as Kurama's rosewhip severed the street lamp.
She fell to the ground, hitting it with a splintering crack. Tears of both pain and finality fell from her eyes. Her left arm hung at a difficult angle, explaining the splintered crack.
"Thank you." She whispered to all three of them, closing her eyes.
"For what? You know you are to die." Kurama stood above her.
"For letting me live long enough to see him one last time." She smiled. "For letting my heart rest knowing Hiei is not dead."
"Hiei? I thought you were after Kuwabara." Yusuke still had his Spirit Gun fired up.
"I was. But I didn't want to fulfill the prophecy. I was raised here, and I love it. Now please, kill me." She begged him.
"That explains why Hiei isn't here." Kurama held the Rosewhip.
"Kill me. Your earth won't be safe until I sleep eternally. Otherwise I will die along with all of humanity, years from now. Or you could just kill Kazuma." She looked at the stormy sky, as lightning crackled.
"Goodbye, Black Wind. Huh?" Yusuke aimed his Spirit Gun at her, but looked up. Hiei was there, standing in front of Kuro Kaze.
"Let me kill her. Please." The fire demon was crying. He held a sword, which looked to be made of the wind itself.
"Hiei...The sword which is not solid..." She breathed.
He nodded. Taking her good hand, he raised it with one hand. But a strange thing happened. At his touch, they were transported. Her home in the Makai soon materialized around them, the rain shared in the ningen world punding above them.
"The prophecy...was wrong..." She sat up.
"Your father was a lier. He wasn't even a human." He helped her up, and sheathed the unsolid sword.
"So now, what?" She cradled her arm.
A piece of paper found her gaze. It was written in her father's handwriting. 'I was wrong. I'm sorry, Queen of the Makai.'
"So, we're the royal couple now? Great..." Hiei took his seat at the throne in the room. Kuro Kaze Sat in the other throne, still crying.
"Hiei...Where did you find the sword?" A smaller demon came out to tend her wounds, as many others filled the room.
"It came to me. I can't explain." He looked at them all.
"Oh, Hiei, you've always been so good that way..." She said, and smiled.
