Yu-Yu Hakusho Human born demon
The long (really long) awaited sequel to chapter 8 (Kinda)
GUESS WHAT
I WAS UNHAPPY WITH THE EIGHT CHAPTERS I WROTE LAST TIME
SO GUESS WHAT I'M GONNA DO NOW
NOT VIOLATE THE CANNON
TALK IN ALL CAPS
START IT ALL OVER AGAIN
LEAVE UP MY OLD STORY
MAYBE FINISH SOMETHING ONE DAY
TALK IN ALL CAPS
Notes: this is based on the idea for a sequel I had to the original story I put on FFnet. However it's set in a timeframe that does not violate the YYH canon. Well at least not as far as my lame memory serves.
I.E. The prologue's narrative will be set in the training with genkai after the genkai ark while the main story will take place afterwards.
Begin
Yusuke was in the middle of one of his more annoying training regimens when he heard a knock on one of the temple doors. Looking at yusuke balance precariously atop a needle while focusing his spirit energy into a point. Genkai had occasionally come back and done some practice with him as well, her excuse being, "Hey it's not like too much practice is bad for you." Right now she was just sitting watching yusuke having just done a short one of her balancing stints. At the knock she said, "Hold the position until I say otherwise." And left the room to answer the knock.
"Hey where are you going old hag!" Yusuke shouted as genkai kept on walking. "What you just want me to hold this for hours?"
"Maybe, depends on my guest." Genkai said in a simple response.
"And just who visits someone like you at random times anyways!" Yusuke shouted again as genkai rounded the corner and left his sight.
"That's what I'm about to find out." She replied as she kept on walking. When she reached the door a face that she was rather unfamiliar with greeted her, "No, I'm not going to take on any more apprentices, and no I don't want any."
"Hello there, it's been a while since I've come by last." An English voice greeted Genkai. Genkai understood English and she had a good idea of who the voice was.
"Thomas?" She asked just in case it was some wonton demon murder who had appeared at her door that looked eerily familiar.
"Greetings." He said with a gentlemen's bow.
Genkai returned the greetings with a Japanese bow. "So just why the hell are you here, you're expression is as dark as the damn shadows from your hat."
"I've been told my invitation that came with my family's death was 'declined'."
"And?" Genkai asked.
"I know what the tournament was, and who was in it. Need I remind you that my great uncle was on the same team as you!" He shouted almost accusingly.
"Aaaand?" Genkai asked again.
"Well I just wanted to ask if you knew the demon that killed my family." He asked this question quietly and grimly.
"No, I said I knew nothing when he actually died five years ago and I'll say I've learned nothing since then because it's the truth." Genkai said with a dismissive turn of her body. "However as you are the closest remaining family to a former teammate of mine and technically a spirit master I suppose I'll let you come in and stay a while. I've got a student who could use a practice fight against someone other than me."
"So I'll guess you won't train me?" Thomas quietly said as he ducked through the door.
"No, you're an eternally grim bastard with a near suicidal drive to complete something that should have been long done or simply been ignored years ago. I'm just trying to reduce those odds of death for you by a statistically miniscule amount." Genkai paused, "Also the kid I'm training needs someone else to throw him off his high horse and show him that he's not all that."
"So if you just want him off his high horse I'll assume you also want him alive then." He said matter-of-factly. "So that would imply that you don't want me to kill him?" Thomas said as he took off his hat and hung it up.
"No, I would rather prefer he is stuck in eternal torture for being told to challenge a spiritual master." She paused, "Of a sorts anyways."
"So no killing then?" He asked.
"No, no killing."
"Ok, just wanted to know." He mumbled as he removed his jacket, "I figure there's a way to fight that I'll kill him and there's a way to fight such that I'll not kill him, probably."
Thomas quietly followed genkai through various corridors looking about; he had been here twice before in the rather distant past and remembered some parts of the building from previous training failures. He saw an open door a felt a human's aura coming from the other side of said door. It seemed rather faint and diffuse to him, "If what I can feel on the other side of that door is your student I have to say he trains rather pitifully."
Genkai seemed to get furious. "That damn delinquent of mine better have passed out from an impact on his stake or he is going to wish that stake had killed him!" Rounding the corner she found yusuke lying on the ground. Switching back to Japanese she cried, "You damn delinquent! Why the HELL are you just lying there when you should be training!" Thomas rounded the corner, "WE have a guest who happens to be a spiritual master and you decide to slack off!"
Yusuke eyed up the new guy, he was massively tall compared to him, over two meters tall. His face showed a lack of interest on it however. He looked around at the room and seemed to find something interesting in the unoccupied spike where genkai had been. With a heave he lifted himself onto one hand and then placed two fingers onto the spike. "Hah, that guy needs two fingers to balance on that stupid spike; I can do it with one!"
Genkai hopped up and hit yusuke on the back of his head. "You think that you can actually stay on that pillar. This guy was trained to do a technique using two fingers."
"What is it some sort of sex move?" Yusuke asked as he rubbed his head.
"Are you trying to taunt this guy?" Genkai asked with a sigh. "He doesn't speak Japanese; he can't understand a word you're saying."
"He can't understand Japanese, why the hell would he be here?" Yusuke said with his best intimidating/outcast look he could muster. Thomas caught sight of this and returned a rather standard glare.
"I can speak English and I knew his former master. He wanted some information on his master's death, but I didn't give it to him since he's borderline crazy."
"So what his master dies and he goes crazy for revenge. Rather lame if you ask me." Yusuke said with an indignant tone.
"His master was a close member of his family; imagine if someone tried to hurt your mother. That and it's probably his assignment, with him being the North American spirit detective and all." Genkai said as she leveled a sympathetic look at Thomas who quietly began doing some vertical pushups.
"Wait that guys a spirit detective!" Yusuke shouted, his outburst throwing off both genkai and Thomas, the latter actually ending up leaning over until his feet touched the wall. "I thought I was the only one!"
"Well in Japan sure, but you think that just Japan has spirit troubles. The whole world has to deal with dangerous demons; it's just that some places have to deal with more demons than others."
"So this guy has the whole of America to deal with right?"
"The better part of it yes."
"So he's gotta be busy all the time right."
"Actually… not really." Genkai let out after a moment's hesitation. "He had one big assignment when he first became a spirit detective and since then he's had about two a year, or at least that's what koenma tells me."
"So then this guy is weak right, I mean I'll bet he's had one task about half as tough as, say, fighting Hiei or Rando. And besides as far as what I've sensed of his aura he's a total wimp. Weaker than some of those things in the forest I ran into."
"You're missing the whole spirit master stuff I said earlier." Genkai muttered as quietly as she possibly could. "Yes that would be close enough to the truth. At least for what we're concerned with. I want you two to have a duel."
"Me, fight him?" Yusuke asked, "This is gonna be easy."
Genkai chose not speak her doubts on Yusuke's optimism but rather continued. "Thomas, come on." Hearing his name Thomas hopped off of his spike and got himself upright.
"You sure he doesn't speak Japanese?" Yusuke asked as the three left the room, "He responded to what you said pretty quickly."
"He is smart, he heard his name, and he knows about this, he put two and two together. He uses his head more often than you do." Genkai added on that last insult as more of an afterthought.
"He thinks just because he's smart he can take me on huh, I'm gonna kick that wimp's ass!" His shout was rather loud for all the effect is had on the Japanese incapable target.
Genkai simply ignored her pupil as she barked out very simple instructions. Holding a small brightly colored pebble in her hand, "This drops, you duel." Genkai said to the two in languages that they would understand. She turned her hand over, let the pebble go, and stepped back slightly.
Yusuke raised his hand and let loose a shot from his spirit gun with much bluster and shouting. Tom's two hands clapped together between him and the incoming attack and the spirit gun shot split.
Yusuke stood flustered as he watched the energy rapidly dissipate until it managed to make a weak fizz in the wall. "All right you can deflect spirit techniques. Let's try hitting you with something more physical!" Yusuke made a lunge at Tom.
Tom put his pointer and middle finger on his right hand together and extended it out. He made three jabs with his fingers like this, all falling short of yusuke. However Yusuke's clothes took tears on the shoulders and on the side. Shallow but defined scratches appeared right below the cut in the clothes. They began to bleed ever so slightly. Genkai's eyes did follow the path of something in the air until it made a gentle, very small, mark on her wall.
Yusuke barely noticed the small shallow cuts as he hit Tom square in the cheek. The hit was spot on, but it didn't make a strong impact. Tom had begun a sidestep back from the hit and had only gotten a light impact from Yusuke's fist. "Let me try that last one again." Tom said as he stepped quickly back.
Again his right fingers moved into position, as well as his left. Yusuke went at Tom for another kick shouting, "Stop moving so much!"
Tom's hands flew like the fist of the North Star, again not touching Yusuke, but much closer this time. Yusuke found himself getting hit several times in the gut, each time by a small point about the height of two fingers and width between a fingertip and a fingernail. These hits didn't cut him though they simply hit him hard in the gut. They were followed up by two kicks as Tom closed the distance on Yusuke. Then Tom hit Yusuke across his face with a strong right hook. Yusuke fell down from the impact but wasn't out. As he got up genkai called out in English, "Stop."
Tom froze over Yusuke with two fingers together ready to strike down into somewhere vulnerable on his body. Yusuke looked up at the finger to notice a very faint golden glow. Then he saw Tom's look, he was ready to strike to kill. His look had an un-nerving amount of grim resolve in it. Especially since Yusuke was going to be his next victim.
Tom was frozen for three awkward seconds but then he got up and de froze himself, his face losing its tension and his fingers relaxing. He got up and stepped back from Yusuke giving Tom a look of hate. Tom didn't flinch at the sight he simply stepped all the way to Genkai. "This kid is supposed to inherit you're spirit techniques?"
"I'll wager a thousand dollars in my will that I'll die before he learns them all. If that's the case I want you to learn some of them to teach him." Genkai whispered. "Truth be told you and I are two of the strongest reiki masters on the planet. There may be so few people stronger than us we could count on our two hands. If this kid ever learns anything about what his true power is like I want you to give him skill along with brute strength."
"And how much brute strength do you think he has?" Tom asked looking at Urameshi.
"With training and nothing else?" Genkai asked, "More power than you have now easily. With my special technique, maybe even more than you're full potential. I'll have to see. It'll take him at least a decade before I think he's ready to receive the spirit orb." Genkai sighed and shook her head, "Kids these days are far too powerful for their own good." As Genkai left the arena area she spoke up in English again, "You can stay the night in my place, maybe train the delinquent for an evening." Genkai switched back to Japanese, "Back to training!" She shouted at Urameshi.
Tom quietly stepped out after Urameshi and went to one of many unoccupied rooms in genkai's sprawling building. He had to wonder where they all came from before he laid his head down. As jet lag caught up with him he quietly thought about his old teacher his great uncle and his death. These thoughts, along with how to make himself stronger and how to get revenge were what he fell asleep to most of the time now.
-End-
And thus begins the adventure with the grimmest/darkiest bits. Just to let you know I have 19 chapters done already but since I'm a completionist and lazy bastard don't expect chapter two for some time. Also expect lotsa future swearing violence and implied/actual sex. To be fair I don't imagine any actual sex will happen until book 2 (which I haven't reached yet, although I'm closing in on it slowly) but hey just in case I'm horribly wrong I warned you!