No One Like You By: OtakuSailorV

Chapter 9:: Unwelcome Visit

Renkotsu crashed through the bushes and trees, trying to remain as silent as possible, though it had always been hard for him to accomplish such a feat. Growling and grumbling to himself, his fists were clenched in his anger toward the teenage female that had suddenly gone missing.

'What is she thinking? Walking around out here at night is more dangerous than trying to walk across a gorge on a rope!' Fuming, he rampaged onward, deciding that he would strangle her for being such an idiot. "Females. . ." He grumbled to himself.


Yuka scrubbed at her hair with her fingers, and ducked under the water again. Frowning at how dirty she was Yuka swam under the water, holding a large breath of air.


Renkotsu smelled the heated water before he had even opened up a passageway to it. Blinking, he saw the girl's footprints all over in the soft, wet grass. Crossing to the first place she had went he found her clothes in a pile and immediately his eyes widened. "What in all the hells?" He voiced his shock.

Looking around, he followed her footprints back to the water's edge and looked down. The water was still except for the sound of steam rising from it in the cool night. Watching the surface with a steady glare, he wondered briefly if she had drowned herself. 'But why would she drawn herself nude? And there's no body on the surface. . .'

He puzzled over this even as his eyes caught a stream of bubbles that had suddenly come and broken the surface. First one bubble, then another and another until there was a great bunch of them popping as they came up. A shadow formed underneath them, and Renkotsu initially expected to see a demon fly from the water, but was shocked when Yuka's head bounced up instead.

Her back was to him, and she seemed unaware completely of his presence. Renkotsu glared at her, though he found it rather awkward that he be standing there when she was nude.

Still, it wasn't like he could see anything at present, not like he wanted to either.

Blinking, he noticed that she must be able to swim well enough, and that such a fact would help Jakotsu in proving that the girl was a youkai like he so often claimed of her when he was angry.

Sighing, Yuka turned, her eyes half-lidded with some depressing thought. She seemed about to swim in his direction, for her arms moved out in front of her, but she stopped when her eyes fell on him.

Renkotsu prepared himself for an immediate scream, but at first, all she did was stare at him through her half-lidded eyes as if she were trying to figure out what was wrong with the picture. ". . ."

Though, as soon as he dropped his guard, her eyes widened, and she ducked under the water up to her chin, her arms folded in front of her protectively. Squinting her eyes shut tightly, she took in a quick, deep breath and let out a scream of not fear, but outrage. "Renkotsu you sick pervert!! Get lost!" She screeched shrilly.

Renkotsu dodged around the hot water she had started to splash in large waves in his direction. Yuka was still yelling threats and screaming at the top of her lungs.

Gritting his teeth in anger, Renkotsu knew that her making so much noise at night was no good. It would attract too much attention was unwanted listeners. Thinking fast, he tried to figure out a way to shut her up, though every time he opened his mouth to speak, he knew that his words would have no effect on the girl. She wanted him away as fast as possible and would only cry out louder if he told her to cease. 'She'll think I'm worried about the others figuring out that I'm out here.'

Knowing that he had little choice in the matter, he groaned inwardly at what he knew he had to do. Diving into the water, he came up next to Yuka and quickly put one hand over her mouth. Securing her in spot by entwining his other arm around her waist, Renkotsu gave her a hard, steely glare. "Will you shut up, girl?" He snapped at her.

Yuka narrowed her eyes on him, flustered by how close he was to her being. Blushing madly, she kicked and tried to beat him off of her. Turning her head this way and that, she tried to free her mouth so that she could yell at him some more. Though she was already trying to talk, it was only muffled screams and cries of utter outrage. A few times, she tried to bite his hand, which Renkotsu gritted his own teeth against. "Someone might hear you!" Renkotsu hissed at her, knowing that his attempts at persuasion were failing horribly.

This was no way to stop her either; the stupid girl had worked herself up into a rage. "Yeah, wike 'or 'uddies." She spluttered in a muffled tone past his hand. It took him a minute, through her dialect and strange words what she meant, but he somehow knew what she was going on about from the beginning.

"No," He told her, still hissing at her as she splashed loudly in the water. "Something worse than them might hear you, fool."

Yuka still glared at him, keeping up her wild strugglers to become free from him. "Will you let go of me?!" She cried kicking and splashing harder than before.

Renkotsu, realizing how futile his attempts were, wondered if he should just leave and let whatever creature heard her wild cries take her. For some reason though, the idea struck a nerve in the back of his mind, and whatever being resided back there put down the thought without hesitation or reexamination.

Still, there seemed no way to get the message across to her how very much in danger she was. And he knew if she spoke those words, she would think that the danger was from him.

Soaked through and vexed to the boiling point, Renkotsu frowned further, hating this situation more and more. "I'm not enjoying this any more than you are." He informed Yuka in a steady tone, trying to find a more direct and calm way to speak with her.

She refused his efforts though, roaring outright as he added insult to injury. Screaming obscenities through his hand at him, she increased her wild motions, though the water still limited her kicks, her limbs were flying at his head and what part of his body stuck out above the water.

"Well, well, this looks comfy." Cooed a voice nearby. Renkotsu looked up sharply; knowing internally that the voice belonged to no human speaker. And indeed the man that stood, leaning against a tree, watching them with a smug smirk on his lips was no human at all. At least, Renkotsu could tell he wasn't. Yuka had never seen a youkai in a human guise before and was utterly fooled; though she knew he was no good.

When Renkotsu dropped his guard from her, Yuka took the chance to rip her face from his hand and duck underwater, swimming away from him and the other male. 'Gods why are there so many perverted guys in this time?! I hate to say it, but why couldn't it be Jakotsu instead of some other weirdo standing there? At least I know Jakotsu would be safer!'

Growling to herself internally, Yuka came up out of the water gasping for breath, but still concealed herself from their gaze. Glaring, her eyes shot flames out of them at the offending males across from her.

Quickly, she tried to figure out someway to get away from them without revealing herself as well. Stuck up to her chin in water, her eyes darted from one male to the other. Renkotsu was sopping wet and had gotten out of the water almost as soon as she had broken away from him and now stood facing the newcomer, his eyes glowing.

Yuka looked to the other man and studied him for a moment, forming angry bubbles around her nose by spurting out air through her mouth that she had submerged under the hot water.

He had moderately long black hair that was so dark that when the moon hit it right, it looked purple in places. His eyes she could not tell the true color of, but she guessed that they were also of irregular coloration. He wore a smug smirk, and his strange eyes lit up when they met hers. Yuka narrowed her eyes when she saw his reaction and stopped forming the bubbles.

The unnamed male turned his attention back to Renkotsu, but one eye seemed to always follow Yuka if she moved even the slightest fraction of an inch. "I don't think I'll ever understand human activities." The male sighed.

Renkotsu's eyes narrowed, demanding an explanation without words.

"Here I was following the scent of some helpless female and when I get here some human's already beat me to it. And I always thought that human senses were dull in comparison to a youkai's." The man rubbed the back of his hand and shrugged one arm as he gave another sigh.

Yuka started at the mention of demons. This man before her was a. . .demon? But how was that possible, he looked absolutely human!! The youkai seemed to sense her sudden jolt of shock and looked sidelong at her, smirking. At that moment, he tilted his head to one side, and his ears were exposed. Unlike human ears though, they were both pointed extremely, like ideal elf ears almost. Yuka's eyes widened slightly, though they immediately narrowed again.

'So, that bald bastard was just trying to get me away after all.' She thought bitterly but as the memory floated back, anger hit her again, pure and raw. 'But that was no reason to grab me like that the perverted old bastard!!'

The demon watched as the moods on the girl's face changed rapidly from one to the other with interest. She seemed to be having some internal struggle. Smirking, his eyes lit back to the human that stood before him in sopping wet clothes that had dripped a large puddle around him in the grass.

"You wouldn't mind if I borrowed her for a little while, would you now?"


Songs for this chapter::

Cold'Stupid Girl'

Breaking Benjamin 'Firefly'

Though the songs revolve around the story in general, I thought I should mention them sometime soon. sweatdrop

Well, well, what shall I do for the next chapter? Or rather – what will Yuka do? Poor, poor Yuka, I torture her so badly in this chapter. Yuka hits V-chan with paper fan

rubs head Ah, yes, well, thank you for the reviews minna-san! And for those of you that this may concern, please check out Skittlez, Pupp's and my Renk/Yuka shrine. I had very little input, actually, so the full credit should go to Skittlez and Pupp. Mind you – this site is still under construction. For the URL, check my bio, it's there above the 'Favorite Pairings' list. Please please visit even though it's still under construction!!

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