Do You Remember, Love?

By: Kage Hasu

Beta: Ayaia of the Moon

Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha or YuYu Hakusho. Let's see…*looks at list of items, objects, and names* nope… I guess I don't own Kagome or Raizen. They belong to Rumiko Takahashi and Yoshihiro Togashi respectively.

Pairings: Kagome/Raizen

Summary: Requested by animeangel008. Long ago a Mazoku fell in love with a heavenly being, an angel. Now Raizen tells Yusuke about his love, his Kagome. Now, 500 years later the trial is over. Question is, does she still remember?

Quote: 'A good way to forget your sorrows is to help others forget theirs.'

Verse: "And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." Genesis 3:14-15

Prologue

Finishing another spar with some of his youkai father's subjects, Yusuke raced off to the tallest tower of the castle, ignoring the concerns being shouted at his back.

"That's odd," said Seitei. The group, consisting of four bald men, wore navy blue hakama and happi but Seitei was the shortest.

"What is?" asked To'o, the tallest.

"The King's stomach growl is off schedule," he replied, eyes closed. Hoksuhin, the leader, looked at the highest room in the tallest tower with dread.

"Oh no."

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"I'm back~." Yusuke yelled in a sing-song voice, kicking open the heavy doors.

Soft grunts of pain were the only answer. Yusuke hummed before his eyes landed upon Raizen's form.

His hair drifted above his head from the power rising from his body, making the room glow an eerie green from his youki. His glowing red eyes and frothing mouth made him look like a rabid animal.

Yusuke's eyes widened. "Bad timing, huh," he said somewhat nervously.

Raizen roared and clutched his head in pain. Faster than Yusuke's eyes could track, Raizen leapt forward, arm extended to grab Yusuke's head before smashing it into the wall as Raizen roared again. The King's strength quickly became too much for the wall and it crumbled.

In the castle's courtyard Yusuke's sparring partners looked up as the tower wall exploded, a cloud of dust obscuring their view. The only thing seen was the glowing green energy beam racing over the forest originating from the tower.

"What was…that energy?" To'o stuttered.

"King Raizen." Hoksuhin breathed.

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The aura of energy around Raizen spiked wildly, hiding both Raizen and Yusuke's forms as it left a glowing streak in its wake. Flying over the forest Yusuke tried to look at his ancestral father's face. He struggled to overcome force of the hand still gripping his face in a death-hold.

"I can't take it anymore, I must feed," Raizen snarled, fangs dripping saliva. Zooming down into the forest, the concentrated aura surrounding Raizen disintegrated trees and everything else within a radius of seven feet. A deep trench formed beneath their path as they flew through the forest. They crash landed into an extremely large pine tree, snapping the trunk like a toothpick.

Raizen's hands forced Yusuke's head into the ground as he crouched over his son's fallen form. Tightening his hands minutely around Yusuke's head, Raizen lost himself further to his primal needs as he growled raggedly.

"Aaaagrrrrrgggg"

Eyes snapping open Yusuke grabbed Raizen's hands and forced them laboriously away from his head. Jumping up as soon as Raizen backed off, the two youkai stared at each other for a split second before rushing towards the other. Grabbing the others hands both males tried to force the other back, but neither moved an inch.

– I can't believe we are this evenly matched, even when he's running on empty. Must be using every last ounce of energy he has. –

Suddenly Raizen jumped over Yusuke's head and disappeared. With the sudden lack of resistance Yusuke stumbled forward before he could regain his footing. "Where did you go?" Yusuke questioned the empty air.

A muffled growl alerted Yusuke to the presence right behind him. Eyes wide, the boy didn't have time to react before the crazed beast bit down on his shoulder and he cried out in pain. Trying to ignore the searing pain on the juncture between his neck and shoulder, he reached up and wrapped his hands around Raizen's head before flipping him over his bloody shoulder. Raizen landed breathing heavily.

"Man, you're pathetic," Yusuke grasped his wounded shoulder tightly, watching as Raizen's eyes widened and the red glow faded as his irises constricted. "If this is you at your weakest I can't imagine you at your strength. You know, I think you've proved your point by now." Yusuke paused as he let his hand fall to his side, ". . . whatever it was."

Raizen looked back at his descendent, amused.

"If you need to eat humans to survive, so be it. I'll bring some for you, some real evil ones. The world is mixed up, things I was clear on confuse me now. But if what you do is wrong then why were you made that way? I don't want another hollow victory. I don't want another star in my win column like I had with Sensui. . .Well if you won't feed yourself will you at least tell me why you're doing this so I can tell you why what you're doing is totally wrong."

Raizen smirked as he sat cross-legged on the ground. "I can see a lot of her in you. She was much wiser of course. It was her fiery temper that I fell in love with." Raizen tilted his head back to look at the red sky. "It's been nearly 500 years now. The human world was a very different place. A great battle had taken place only a few years before and the world was still in chaos and disorder. This was before the first barrier between the human and youkai world and our two kinds lived side by side.

"The youkai exterminator village had been decimated and holy beings were in a decline, it was a grand time to be a youkai, though I imagine it was a bit rougher for the humans. We terrorized them and yet their petty feudal lords were not above calling upon us to defend their lands against the invading horde of their own enemies.

"Yomi, Mukuro, and I were the three kings even then, but we all made regular trips to the human world. I didn't care which side a person was on, they were all food to me. They didn't like that very much. But all that changed one night when I met a woman." Raizen looked back at Yusuke.

"A woman," Yusuke repeated.

"From a distance she was very unassuming, just another human – exactly the way she wanted it – but everyone could tell something about her was different…something special. I soon found out just how very different she was; after her death, she and four others had been brought back in time."

Yusuke stared disbelievingly at his ancestor. "Back in time," Yusuke repeated again.

"Yes, thousands of years ago – I was never stupid enough to ask exactly how long – the world was in dire need of a higher power to keep everything in order. The earth and everything on it was dying.

"After being brought back she and the others were ascended to that highest power.

"No one was or is more powerful than them, and no one can surpass them. They are the higher power that keeps the worlds from extinction and running smoothly; Time, Nature, Cosmos, Destiny, and the Netherworld. Four parts of the soul; Aramitama (Courage), Nigimitama (Friendship), Kushimaitama (Wisdom), Sakimitama (Love), and The Balance – which keeps the others in harmony – are represented by those five. Time is Friendship, Nature is Love, Cosmos is the Balance, Destiny is Courage, and the Netherworld is Wisdom.

"Years…Decades…Centuries passed and as they gained more wisdom and experience the worlds were better off. Finally things are as you see them now."

"So Enma answers to this…higher power…these five beings, right? If they control everything than don't they have the power to stop all the chaos in both the human world and the youkai world? 'Cause things don't seem to wonderful."

"Enma was created by them," Raizen sighed heavily, "Of course they could stop all the death and wars that our worlds have, but not only do youkai like chaos and wars, the Five Powers believe in free choice and don't like interfering all that often…at least on a grand scale. Often times they will disguise themselves as a mortal and help the world like that, it's how I met her. We first met in the human world, where she healed me, a couple months later she came with a mortal companion to my castle looking for something."

"What was your first meeting like?" Yusuke questioned.

Raizen gazed off into the distance with glazed eyes, staring something only he could see. "I was running from a mob of humans. I had been weakened earlier by one of the remaining pure ones, I made my way towards a small hut on the outskirts of a village. She was there, helping to train the village priestess. She turned towards me; it was the first time I saw her eyes…a beautiful stormy blue-gray…

A/N: So sorry I'm so late in getting this up animeangel008, I hope the twist I put on your idea doesn't turn you away. There were also some things that I couldn't have to go with some necessary plot line. I should have got this up earlier, I've had it beta'd for almost a week now.