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Chapter 2: On My Own
I desperately wanted to crawl into bed and never leave.
But I couldn't, I wouldn't, be that weak.
I no longer had that luxury.
I had gotten home before dark like my father had asked, but the once great spirit detective was passed out on the floor. In all my 15 years, I had never seen him touch a drop of alcohol. Well, that is, until now. He was way too heavy to carry all the way to thei- his room, so I plopped him onto the couch not far from where he passed out. I wish I could've had the option to escape the pain like he did. But for now, a cigarette will have to suffice.
I took a cigarette from the pack we kept in the kitchen drawer for those rare occasions my dad would smoke, and lit it off a match.
I took a long drag, already feeling my muscles start to relax.
Now to contact Kurama.
In all the stories I had heard about my Father's detective days, Kurama and Genki sounded to be the most brutal of sensi's. And that's exactly what I needed, if I was to ever reach my goal.
After the tornement, he had returned home to become a doctor. He's now an ER doctor at Tokyo's most successful hospitals, though he continues to live with his mother.
Once my ciggerette had been reduced to a butt, I flicked it out of the kitchen window.
8:07 pm. Good, his shift doesn't start for another hour. I thought as I quickly dialed his number.
"Hello Kimico, How is Yusuke?"
"Passed out drunk."
"I was afraid as much.. How are you holding up?"
"Alright, I guess. I have a favor to ask of you, one that cannot be discussed with my father."
"I see," came a knowing reply, "Are you sure this is wise? You do realize he will find out eventually."
"I need to become stronger. And not just for some revenge scheme, I want to what my father did, all of those years ago. I don't want for anyone else to have go through what I have with my mother. And I know this won't be easy to do and it would crush my dad if he ever found out but I just.. I need this, okay?"
"Kimi.. You don't need t-"
"Don't tell me what I need to do!" I shouted letting a couple tears fall from my eyes.
The conversation fell silent. I took a deep breath and recovered my wits.
"Sorry.. I just need this.. Just, please... I'm not going to lie, I will go after the bastered that killed my mother, but that's not all this is about."
I could hear Kurama sigh. "Alright.. But once summer is over, you're on your own. I can't be held responsible for your actions past that."
Training in Hell, Literally.
I found myself knocking all over an old warehouse in downtown Tokyo at 5 in the morning.
I yawned, "So why exactly are we doing this?"
"There are many illegal portals scattered all around the human world, but if my calculations are correct, there should be a portal here that should take us exactly where we need to go." He explained, knocking on the wall.
"And where is that exactly?"
"Maze castle."
"Isn't that place abandoned?" I asked, remembering it from my father's stories of his old life.
"Yes, but there are still some cultivated humans left up there, and for the first exercise I'm going to have you fight them. Maze Castle makes an excellent training ground," He knocked on a floor tile with in return raised, revealing a portal underneath, "Ahh, here we go."
"..."
"Uh, Kimi?" Kurama questioned.
"What's a cultivated human?"
[Anime sweat drop] "Didn't you read that book I gave you?"
"I skimmed..." I said, rubbing the back of my head, nervously.
"..This is going to be a very long 3 months isn't it?"
I laughed nervously.
In Maze Castle
''Okay, now where are these mother fuckers I'm supposed to fight?" I asked, ready to fight. Kurama didn't answer but simply walked over to a lever that I hadn't noticed was there and yanked it back.
Suddenly, the ground below us began to shake. I darted my eyes around the area. My eyes landed on a doorway that hadn't been there before.
"Uhh.."
I heard the creatures moan as they made their way out of the door way.
"Zombies?!" I screeched.
"Kind-of."
I summoned my energy into a bow.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," Kurama commented.
"And why the hell now?!" I exclaimed.
He pointed back to the doorway. There was no end to the group of cultivated humans coming out. They just kept coming. "Crap," I exclaimed, finally catching on. I wouldn't have enough spirit energy to summon enough arrows to take them all down.
"I guess I'm going to have to take them the old fashioned way!" I said, knocking the first one to the ground.
Another grabbed me from behind dragging me to him.
Damn, where the hell did he come from?
Suddenly, like moths to the flame, they all started pulling at me at once.
"Get off me you freaks!" I screamed, releasing a big burst of energy, blowing them back.
5 hours later
"You're having problems with these brainless minions?!" Kurama shouted at me, after I had been knocked down one again by the endless stream of creature that felt no fear or pain.
"I've been fighting them for hours!" I complained, dodging another cultivated human.
"You're going to fight these things everyday until you can fight them effortlessly and without flaw!"
You've got to be kidding me.
He was definitely not joking in the least, I spend the next week fighting those things. By the end of it all I could practically predict their moves. Well, that was until...
I knocked another one effortlessly to the side when suddenly, a whip came out of nowhere catching my wrist. I cried out as the thorns dug into my skin.
Well that's a twist I thought as I dropped to my knees.
I concentrated my spirit energy into my hand, disinagrating the whip around my wrist. I shot my head over to Kurama, my vein pulsing out of my forehead.
"THE HELL WAS THAT?!"
"The demon world is cruel. Do you actually think that they will be as easy on you as I have been?"
I grumbled to myself, recalling the relentless training. But I must admit it was kind of worth the power boost.
The week that followed I had to run through maze castle, 15 time before we even started. Then I would spar with Kurama until I was nicely beaten and bloody to start the real training. Which would consist of whatever his sadistic mind had come up with that day. Climbing the castle wall, jumping through the "Room of Hell" trying not to fall in the lava and to my death, holding up that blasted ceiling that adjusted it's weight to my strength level, and many, many more unsightly things I'd rather not think about...
Tomorrow I would go see Koenma, since my summer's end was a few days away.
Okay, That's the end of Chapter 2. It's kind of sloppy, but.. yeah. Review on what you think, as always flames are welcomed.
