Thank you all so much for the reviews and I wish i could thank you all, but That would be as long as this story. haha XP. Any who I feel honored that you all love it, I try very hard. I enjoy writing about so may diverse characters.
Believe it or not this is the first fan fiction I've ever written or anything for the matter. Besides school essays if you count them. I mean some of the stuff I have in here i never intended to have, it just fit right. :P
And also a fun fact neither Carrie nor Yumi are based off me, I made them up. They both are just what I pictured as matches for Hiei and Kurama.
Chapter 29
Yumi
"Yusuke's alive!" Carrie asked incredulously.
"Yes puu is a reflection of Yusuke himself, if he's alive so is Yusuke." Botan explained happily. She had arrived just a few second ago with Kieko and Shizuru in tow.
"Oh that's so good." I sighed in relief
The child in my lap began to stir. "Amanuma sweetie you're awake." I smiled down at the child. Once we had exited the cave Carrie just as promised filled me in on the details of how she was here and how koenma had used his power to bring Amanuma back to life.
"Have a good nap kid?" Grandmother looked behind her shoulder.
"But I don't get it why?" He shot up.
"Koenma brought you back to life." Grandmother explained. "As for why I can't say."
"Maybe I've been wrong." He whispered grabbing on to my waist. I hugged him back trying to comfort him.
"It must be over." Grandmother starred into the cave.
Normal POV
Sensui had finally been defeated and he lay on the ground unable to move. Yusuke kept asking him for a do over again and agian making the onlookers confused.
"Kurama can you use some kinda healing plant on him?" Yusuke asked frantically. "He's not dead he just needs a boost."
Kurama shook his head. "Unfortunately I used up my energy fighting him before. The most I can do is ease his pain."
"What good are you're powers if you can't use them when you need them?" Yusuke scoffed. "But if that's it fine, give em what you've got."
"Gladly." Kurama answered.
"That won't be necessary." Itsuki interrupted.
"Don't tell me." Kuwabara began.
A circle formed letting and Itsuki stepped out of it.
"Please just let Shinobu go." Itsuki pleaded.
"If I'm gunna kill a human even an evil one, it's at least gotta be me pullin the trigger I'll never know if it's me who made that choice." Yusuke defended.
"Don't torture yourself Shinobu only had half a month left to live anyway." Itsuki revealed. "He was suffering from a rare and terminal disease. Dr. kamia confirmed that, though not even he could cure it. An ordinary human would have lost the fight long ago, but not him."
"This you're idea of a joke." Yusuke balled his fist
Shinobu awoke then admitting the truth, and his happiness of being defeated by a demon. He assured Yusuke that it was what he had wanted all along, to die in this world of the beings he killed, and how he intended koenma to use his pacifier on Amanuma. Just so he could come to this place. He finished just before his body compulsed and he breathed his last breath.
"I'll take you myself." Koenma sighed in grief.
"I won't let you." Itsuki stopped him. "Shinobu is dead you got what you wanted, don't you think he deserves that too? He devoted the last ten years of his life to refuting everything you believe in. He didn't live by your standards and he certainly didn't want to die by them."
He bent down beside him reaching into Shinobu's pocket. "So I wont let you take him to spirit world free to judje him you're way. Being defeated by the Masuku was exactly what he needed to resolve his inner turmoil and pay off his guilt. He finally concurred those six personalities and emerged as Shinobu. His original untainted self. So in a way he's already been redeemed and doesn't need you people to do it for him." He stood lining his body in gold, Lifting Shinobu off the ground.
"Where will you take him?" Koenma breathed.
"Somewhere his soul won't be subjected to you're scorn and overbearing judgement." Itsuki answered. "Where it will be safe from hypocritical administrates who train a boy to be a killer and then hunt him down for being one as a man. You people do not deserve his soul, And take this with you." He threw what he had taken from Shinobu's pocket. "Give it to the girl with pink hair." He instructed as he and Shinobu's body drifted away into the tunnel. "Shinobu and I will spend the rest of eternity together in solitude and peace."
Jut before they left Yusuke reached down picking up whatever Itsuki had thrown. It was a photograph.
Yumi
All of them exited the tunnel for the most part unharmed, just exhausted. Though someone I had never seen before was with them. He had tattoos spread across his torso and he had hair that looked like he had been playing with an electric socket.
"Who's the rocker?" Botan pointed.
"I don't know." Kaito fixed his glasses.
"Yusuke!" Kieko ran to him.
"It's really him?" Mitari questioned.
"I'll be damned." Grandmother muttered.
Keiko jumped circling her arms around his neck.
"Oh Yusuke always stopping my heart." Botan sighed in relief running after keiko with all of us in tow.
"Though it's not always cause of makeovers." She examined him. "What happened? I'm having flashbacks of Rando."
I glanced at Kuwabara carrying Hiei on his back. "What happened to him?" I asked curiously.
"Nothin he just tired himself out." Kuwabara grunted. "Figures I'd be the one left to carry him."
"How kind of you." I giggled.
"Hold those thoughts guys I gotta take care of somethin." Yusuke closed his eyes. In response we all turned to the tunnel entrance to people with blue armor Carrie and I had seen before.
"It appears not everyone feels this case is resolved." Kurama stated.
"Koenma you know spirit world won't overlook this treason." The old man with the mustache warned. "You have disobeyed my orders delivered directly from you're father to erase that boy. You let the Masuku emerge fully knowing what that could bring. You will take responsibility and come with us."
"Yes I'm no fool Utaki." Koenma closed his eyes. "I realized what the consequences would be."
"You stupid tools!" Yusuke berated. "Think you can hide behind you're uniforms and push decent people around? Look I don't start fights with the defenseless, but you're starting to piss me off and that's a whole different thing, and since you're all new here I'll give you a tip." He glared. "Threatening the guy who helped save us will definitely piss me off. Koenma did what he could to help, and if getting rid of you is what it takes to protect him... I'll kill you all one by one."
The old man backed away. "I'd love to accept, the challenge but sealing this tunnel takes presidence, but let me assure you this isn't over." He turned to his men and they fled back into the cave in a blue light.
"Sorry was that a little much?" Yusuke asked Koenma.
"Not at all Yusuke." He smiled. "Took the words right from my mouth."
"So Urameshi you gunna look like that all the time?" Kuwabara questioned as we all left the cave entrance.
"Good question." He shrugged. "Hell I don't know."
"Hey Botan you wanna carry Hiei for a while?" Kuwabara called out to her.
"Absolutely not." She refused.
"Come on he only weighs like two pounds." He argued.
I laughed, it had been so long since I had. This experience had felt like years instead of days. When we returned what would life feel like to us now?
"Question is where will we stay?" Koenma pondered. "Botan and I can't exactly go back to spirit world."
"If that's what you're worried about, I've got a solution." I answered. "My parents own an apartment complex, you guys can stay there until it cools down a bit."
"Are you sure?" Botan fretted.
"Yes of course." I nodded. "My parents never go there and I live at my house, so you won't be intruding at all."
It was decided they would move in tonight and gain the necessary supplies for their stay later.
Yumi
We had all gathered at Grandmother's house to recuperate and currently Yusuke was getting his hair cut from keiko, which left me alone with grandmother.
"This is a very nice place grandmother." I complimented.
"Thanks I try." She smirked.
My eyes landed on a photo sitting on a table across the room. In it was a Beautiful girl with long black almost bluish hair in her teens, smiling next to a slightly younger genkai.
"Is that my mother?" I asked amazed.
"Yes back when she was in high school." She smiled fondly.
"Was she strong?" I picked it up, caressing the smooth glass.
"Very, If she had kept training with me she would have been even stronger than Yusuke is now." She sipped her tea.
"Is that even possible?" I blinked.
"Yes, and just like you're mother you also have tremendous spiritual ability." She informed. "You've begun to notice it too haven't you? Like at the tournament with My spirit orb and Tugoro, you can sense things ordinary humans can't, and back then it had just started so all you felt was pain."
"Is that why I was feeling sick all the time back then?"
She nodded. "I could train you to bring that power out if you'd like."
I would be lying if the thought of accepting hadn't crossed my mind, but I knew who I was and what she was offering wasn't it. "If it's alright with you Grandmother I'd like to refuse."
"Why? If you honed you're ability you could have the potential to be on par with even Yuskue." She insisted.
I closed my eyes. "And then what?" I asked. "I would build up all that power, only to be the target of others to test their strength. Always fearing for the lives of my loved one's and myself." She didn't say anything so I continued. "If you ask me That existence is very lonely. Sensui was a prime example of it."
"Humph." She smirked. "You're certainly you're mothers daughter."
"Thank you." I smiled.
"Hey guys you havin a party without me." A now less harry Yusuke came in.
"Wow Yusuke you look so different." I pointed out.
"Yeah and a lot less savage too as Botan likes to put it." He snickered. "But I actually came to talk to you, mind if we go outside for a bit."
I exchanged a look with of puzzlement with Grandmother, and stood following him to the steps leading up to to the dojo.
"What is it you wanted to tell me Yusuke?" I spoke up.
He removed something from his pocket, handing it to me. "Here."
"What is this?" I asked quietly.
"I don't know, Itsuki got it from Sesnui." Yuske mused. "He said to give it to you."
Yusuke had confirmed my suspicions. I held the photograph in my hands. It was of the same girl on my Grandmother's table, but this time a tall boy with dark brown hair and deep eyes stood on her left, and On her right was a boy with light brown hair and round glasses. They looked so carefree and happy you could definitely say they were close, as they smiled for the picture, that you could easily tell the girl had taken.
On the back in neat letters read, Satoshi, Atsuko, and Shinobu age 15, no matter the obstacles we'll stay friends forever.
I couldn't understand it. Why did Sensui who claimed to hate them carry around this picture?
Genkai
It amazed her how much mature and wise her granddaughter was, far more than herself. Despite the fact she was graced from head to toe with her looks, Yumi's personality and set of values resembled her own daughter's. Though what she was like now, Genkai had no knowledge of. That one thing, kept reminding her of the promise she had made with Tugoro.
Flashback
"Don't stay here trying to figure me out, you have a job to do." He instructed. "You're apprentice Urameshi he can still be stronger, but he could go the wrong way too. Like me, but this time maybe he'll actually listen to you the way I could not."
"You really care about Yusuke." She realized. "In you're own screwed up way you've been teaching him too. He's like a son to me, maybe you think the same." She smiled and turned. "Don't ever feel regret for the things between us."
"No Genkai, but just promise you won't care for Yusuke so much that you forget our own flesh and blood." He smiled at her taking his glasses off. "Try to mend the bonds the both of us severed. She deserves that at best for being born to parents like us, Same goes for Yumi." He looked off in the distance nostalgically. "Maybe if things had been different it would have been a beautiful life."
Yumi
I peeked inside. He still lay sleeping soundly on the futon. I moved toward him as softly as possible, so as not apply pressure to the floor boards.
I lowered myself to where I could see his face. I smiled, he really did look like a child when he slept. My hand betrayed me as it moved to brush the bangs away from his eyes. The next second was all a blur but I had somehow ended up underneath him with my hands pinned on both sides of my head.
I felt the body heat radiate off of him as he lay on top of me, our faces only inches apart. "That wasn't very smart." He narrowed his eyes. "What would you have done if I hadn't realized it was you?" He removed his grip from my wrist and pulled me into sitting position. "What are you doing here?"
"I just came to check on you." I said truthfully. "Are you hurting anywhere?"
"No." He answered bluntly.
"Well that's good." I looked down messing with the ends of my hair. "Listen if you ever need someplace to stay."
"I don't."
"In the unlikely event that you do you're always welcome to come by." I finished despite his interruption.
"Hn." He looked me hard in the eye before standing. "I'll consider it."
I smiled feeling like I had just been told I'd won the lottery.
Carrie
I had heard Yumi's voice from one of the rooms, but I wasn't' expecting it to be in the same one as short, dark and creepy.
"Listen if you ever need a place to stay." I heard her say as I reached my hand for the door knob.
"I don't."
"In the unlikely event that you do you're always welcome to come by." She finished despite his rude interruption.
Come by? I wanted to scream at her to get away. He was not the type of guy to get involved with.
There was a pause before He answered. "I'll consider it."
I felt if I went in now I would intrude, and left before I was discovered.
Yumi
I swung my feet on the low porch. We were all preparing to leave, and were just waiting on the taxi we had called to pick us up. Carrie came sitting silently beside me which was odd for her.
"What's the matter Carrie?" I asked concerned.
She shrugged and we sat in silence before she spoke. "Do you like that guy?"
I turned to give her a puzzled look.
She rolled her eyes. "You know the short one. Hiei."
My face heated up. She had noticed?
"So it's true." She answered for me. "Do you love him?"
Did I love Hiei? Were my feeling that deep?
"No." I decided. "I barely know anything about him and we only met just a while ago. I don't deserve the right to love him yet, but I do care deeply for him."
"Hm." She answered deep in thought. "I just don't want you to expect too much."
Yumi
I opened my front door. Nothing had changed since the way I had left it. I sighed stepping inside toward the stairs.
"Yumi." I spun to see my Mother sitting on the couch observing me. "Where have you been?"
"At grandmothers." I said looking down. "Are you angry?"
She closed her eyes and sighed getting up from her seat. "I'm not going to tell you how to live you're life, but let me at least say this. To be apart of that world takes sacrifices." She turned her face away. "Take it from someone who knows."
"Was Shinobu one of them?" I heard myself say before she had a chance to leave.
She stopped. "What did you say?" She breathed.
I held out the photograph with the three of them together. She snatched it away, her fingers shaking. "Where did you get this?"
"I found it at Grandmother's." I lied. "Mother who is this?"
"It's no one." She whispered turning away. "Just an old friend who isn't here anymore."
Isn't here anymore? It sounded like she implied... I couldn't ask anymore because when I tried she was already walking away.
Later that night:
I couldn't sleep. Questions in the back of my mind wouldn't allow it. I made my way down stairs hoping that something to drink would settle my thoughts, when I spotted a dim light coming from the living room. I peeked around the corner to see my father with a book in hand.
"Couldn't sleep either?" He raised a brow.
I shook my head smiling bashfully. He beckoned me to come sit and I complied.
"So how long will you be in town for?" I picked at my pajama pants.
"Only for tonight, you're mother is eager to get going. Why I don't know, But we'll be back in few weeks and we won't be gone again for at least a while." He rubbed his chin. "And since were here why don't you tell me what's really bothering you Yumi?"
This was what he used to do when I was a child, on one of the rare times they were home. We would sit just like this, and he would ease any troubles I had.
I hesitated looking away again.
"Yumi, you can tell me anything." He urged.
"Who was Shinobu?" I looked him in the eye.
His face faltered and his eyes held an old sadness. "I figured you would find out about him sooner or later." He sighed. "Well to put it simply we were all very good friends in high school, I had no idea about the world he and you're mother were apart of until a certain event, but that's another story." He starred off into nothing as if it had been a lifetime ago. "Shinobu was an odd character he was, he could be so serous one minute and in the next be as innocent as a child, and the relationship he had with you're mother was a special one. They probably would have gotten married."
"Why didn't they?"
"A few weeks before graduation he disappeared without a trace. No one knew where he had gone not even you're mother and I." He pushed his glasses away and rubbed his face. "But after looking for what seemed like forever they finally found him. He was pronounced dead."
Dead? The Sensui I met was definitely alive. How could he be dead and accomplish what he did?
"What happened to him?" I asked anxiously.
He shook his head. "No one knows, the parent's were very secretive about it. We didn't even get to say goodbye to the body, the casket was closed. But you're mother was devastated." He admitted. "For a while she was locked in her own mind, it took me a long time to coax her out of it. When I did though she was a different person, but so was I. The incident had taken it's toll on the both of us, but we eventually married leading to the birth of our beautiful daughter." He smiled.
I lowered my eyes to the ground. What they hadn't known was that the entire time Sensui had been alive. but if they did what good would it bring anyway? The past was the past and sometimes a lie was better than the painful truth. It was nicer to remember him as a dear friend than someone who about nearly killed all humans.
"Well I'm off to bed gotta get an early start." He laid a hand on my shoulder. "Goodnight dear."
"Goodnight father." I answered back.
Note: Sensui is the one with dark brown hair, and deep eyes, Yumi's dad is the one with light brown hair and round glasses
