Chapter Eleven: Datenshi
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho.
Warning: May be some sexual content, harsh language, violence, and unusual relationships. (Yaoi/Yuri/Het/etc.) YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Flames towards this issue and plagiarism will NOT be tolerated.
Written by- Aoihyou
Posted- 7/9/03
Authors Note-
Just in case you missed it: The winged youkai from the last chapter (who was talking with Youko Kurama) was KURONUE. The bat youkai (with the scythes) from Chapter Four.
As for review responses, I will do that near the end. I swear I will. Probably the last chapter. Even if it DOES take me eternity... and if you have questions, you can e-mail me or AIM me, or I may reply in chapter notes if it is urgent and you cannot contact me.
Also... I know that I'm bad at updating, but I'm trying. This chapter was late mostly because I didn't want to write about Karasu. I dislike him. -.-
This story is going to be long, I hope you can bear with me >. Arigatou...
Chapter Note-
-Faked enthusiasm- Yay. More Karasu.
Also, I have decided that the youkai in my story will age like this:
The same as humans in appearance up to their prime physical appearance. (For some, fifteen, for others twenty, etc.) When they reach the prime, they will only age about one year in appearance every hundred to five hundred years or so, depending on species.
**Important: Karasu means crow or raven in Japanese. ^^ You'll see why.
~*~
He was born into darkness.
His eyes, purple now, blazed to the outside world, raging to the familiar and yet so ungraspable feelings he was having.
His lungs sucked in, and blew out for the first time in- how long was it?
Two voices gasped as his violet depths reached them, inherited night vision locking onto them.
"His eyes are open..." The male whispered, blue orbs staring in fascination.
"Our kind is born blind... perhaps this is a sign?" The female demon that had released him into this dark world replied, a slight line of sweat trickling down her already drenched face as she finally pulled out of the pain of labor.
Her eyes were a soft purple. Kind, gentle, yet slightly fearful.
The previously amused blue eyes shifted to his mate, an uneasy feeling settling in the pit of his stomach as he looked down again at the bundle she held. The bundle that was now staring into his mate's exhausted lavender eyes with... amusement? No, it couldn't be... He shook his head slightly and turned to his wife for a long awaited response.
"Perhaps... but of what?"
~*~
The Koorime woman led the black figure across the frozen lands, speaking softly as they headed for a stone.
"A Cursed Child, he could see and hear... maybe even feel... right when he was born."
The black figure's red eyes flashed at the mention of this Child...
The Forbidden Child.
But, unknown to him... not the only.
...//A// Forbidden Child.
~*~ Akira focused his youki, drawing it out of his fingertips, and then blasted it at the rock wall before him.
The earth trembled around the wall, then simply shifted, allowing the hidden hole to become just a common cave.
He, an Earth youkai, had made a cavern for him and his mate so that they could deliver their child in peace.
And yet he somehow felt unsafe once the child had been born. He had been urged to make an opening as soon as possible-to make an escape... but... from what?
Those eyes.
So piercing, not those of a newborn.
Wine colored, flashing between violet and blood red...
They scared him.
His own son's eyes scared him.
The brown haired demon stepped out of the crumbling dust, and into the falling day.
His blue eyes traveled to the orange sunset, to a tree that hid the escaping burning orb, a tree that looked like skeletons stacked on one another in the dim light.
A name...
He had not yet thought of a name for his newborn child.
For he hadn't expected it needed.
His wife, Fuuka, had a history of miscarriages, to such a point that even their elders only half-heartedly attended their pregnancy ceremony.
Twelve others had died before this one, never even taking their first breath.
What was so different about him?
...Those eyes.
He looked once again at the skeleton-like tree, sighing outward.
And gasped.
There was a flock of birds landed in the barren tree. It made the dead shrubbery look almost in full bloom...
With jet-black petals.
Beautiful, and yet eerie. Piercing, chilling, yet fascinating.
Raven... Raven... Crow... Crow...
The day was fading into a deep purple, just before the last of light flickered away...
Purple. Violet. Piercing. Chilling... A Sign...
Raven... Crow... Raven... Crow...
"Karasu---"
A name.
For the Thirteenth Child.
Another...
Forbidden Child.
~*~
"Tell me, Kageme, the weakness of the child I speak of."
"I will not, no mortal is to meddle with The Fates."
"Just take a look... see what it is... if it is too big, if you still cannot tell me, then I shall leave you be."
"I will take a look, but do not get your hopes up, I have no interest in upsetting The Fates."
~*~
"Karasu! Karasu! Stop crawling around! The family is coming to visit, we have to get you cleaned up." Fuuka smiled warmly as she chased her two-year-old son around their home.
Earth Youkai were extremely loyal, and a tight knit family. They were coming for their yearly visit, her and Akira's family. She had to make sure Karasu was prim and presentable.
She had no worries about the house. It was already perfect. It was a cave, not rough and ugly as imagined when the word is mentioned, but smooth and roomy. Akira had used his powers to make the cave perfect for them. No sharp corners for Karasu to hit his head on, no protruding rocks on the floor for him to cut his little hands on.
No danger for her one and only.
She smiled as she caught him, thinking of what a blessing he was, of how he had survived when twelve others had not.
"My little angel..." She mumbled, playing with his button nose.
Angel. Wings. Feathers. Black. Wings. Datenshi...
Karasu.
Karasu...
Fuuka blankly picked him up in her arms, carrying him to the washroom, a little room that had a cave river trickling by, and one that Akira had planned and provided with his flourishing skills.
She quickly undressed her son, not even looking at him as she went through the routine moves.
Her mind began to wonder at the thought of angels.
Datenshi...
It had been the most peculiar thing, the day he'd been born.
Akira had taken a step outside, to get a breath of air, then came back, hands shaking a bit as he held her shoulders.
"Karasu." He had muttered.
"Karasu."
And with that, he had looked straight into their newly born son's eyes, a look of slight confusion, yet fear, flashing in his own.
Fear...
He had muttered something just as a voice called from the deep night...
"Oi, Akira? Fuuka? 's your family. The kid born?" And her husband had rushed to the door...
She absently scrubbed behind her child's ears as her thought continued.
"So, what are you going to name him? Your thirteenth little miracle?"
A pause as she remembered the strange silence, the soft cloth she held stopped mid wipe on her son's forehead as she remembered the look in his eyes...
He'd violently turned to their child, eyes flashing again, and he turned around to their family members and...
"His name is Karasu..."
Karasu.
"Mo...mmy?" She snapped back to reality as her son spoke one of three words he had finally been able to form.
"Sorry honey, mommy dazed off a bit."
Scrub. Scrub. Scrub. Can't forget the toes.
"His name is Karasu..."
Raven. Raven. Raven. Raven. Crow. Crow. Crow. Crow. Karasu. Datenshi. Karasu. Datenshi...
Datenshi... fallen angel.
Forbidden Angel.
Forbidden Child...
//Another// Forbidden Child.
"All done."
Karasu.
A slight shudder went through Fuuka's form as she looked down at the flickering violet eyes of her son.
"It must be chilly today..." She reasoned, pulling her robes closer to her slightly frail body.
Or perhaps it was the red that dwindled in those startling depths of amethyst...
~*~
He was such an unfortunate child... Yukina, promise me... heal his broken soul... Find him...
~*~
"Karasu! Get in here at once!"
The mentioned seven year old stalked into the room, his black robes swishing around him as his piercing eyes stared from among midnight black locks.
"What." He stated, more than asked, flatly. His father felt a shiver go through him.
"I heard you... blew up Kouji's pet?"
"So?"
"He's your cousin!"
"We're demons, not humans, I don't see why you dwell on bonds of blood."
"Karasu!"
"What."
"Why did you do such a thing?"
"..."
"Karasu!"
"Because it was beautiful."
"What?"
"His pet was beautiful. You saw it."
"So you did it out of jealousy? I could have gotten one for you--"
"No, I did it to preserve its beauty." Just like I did to the bird you got me, the fish you got me, and so many other things you don't know about...
The father of the boy shuddered again as those icy eyes glinted red just before they were hidden from view with several locks of hair.
~*~
"If I kill them... they are mine…"
~*~
"Karasu killed a bird again."
"Your son has been burning animals lately..."
"Did you hear of the woman who was murdered yesterday? She was still smoldering when they found her..."
"Did you hear of the prostitute they found in the bar? The one whose head had been severed off and only ashes found around her?"
"Don't stay out too late, or go to deep in the forest, there's something out there..."
"Someone killed all of the exotic pets that those traders brought yesterday... they only found scorch marks in the cages."
"Did you see the gash on Akira-san's face? They say his son did that to him."
"Another person went missing yesterday. I saw smoke coming from the forest."
"Have you seen Fuuka-san lately? Her eyes are always so puffy... and she jumps at the smallest sounds and always cowers when she sees fire..."
"I saw smoke..."
~*~
"Kill them before they betray me..."
~*~
Images plagued his mind.
There were no words or sounds that accompanied the images... which just made it more eerie.
There were gaping mouths and panting breaths that made no sound, uttered no sweet ragged pant. Just floating images before his blank eyes.
They weren't very consecutive, just glimpses... some in other's minds.
His violet eyes were flashing as those images whizzed by and across his mind again.
They were leaving him.
Scared. Frightened. Unsure.
But he smiled.
He knew what the next image would be, for it had replayed in his mind many times, just as the others had.
Soft lavender eyes wide open in horror just before they rolled back... Blue eyes petrified in terror as the owner of them tried to save them both...
And he smiled again as it all began, as he heard their fearful footsteps towards the exit, tiptoeing painfully past his door, which they were certain he was asleep behind.
And that smile was accompanied by blazing red eyes as he stood up, gracefully stepping to the door just as two sets of footprints scurried out of the house...
They froze as his door closed with a soft 'Click'.
"Where are you going, mother?" His voice was venomously sweet, and he smirked as his 'father' tensed, stepping before the one he'd called to. And his smirk grew as they both shuddered upon turning around and meeting his eyes.
And that was when the images became reality.
"You won't get the chance to leave me this time..."
And just a few seconds later, the first splatter of blood sprinkled on the dusty walls of the cave he'd been reborn in.
~*~
End Chapter Eleven.
o.O Yeaaaa... Isn't it weird how Karasu seems -shudder- normal when he's a baby? (Karasu, normal?) In case you didn't see, Datenshi (title of this chapter) means fallen angel.
This chapter was supposed to be longer (more Karasu. Yayyyy... -cough-) but I decided to stop it here. I'll type the rest soon (Soon? What's that?) ^^ I hope you liked the pointless violence. Guess in your reviews or e mails (or whatever) what the little bits between time transitions were. I want to see if you know what I'm talking about ^^. If you didn't notice, the reason Karasu's (second set) parents were trying to slip out and leave him at night was because they knew he was the one doing the killings and had experienced close encounters before. And yes, the end of this chapter connects to the end of Chapter 4. (Where they are already dead.)
Thank you for your support up to now (-cough blunt death threats cough-) and encouragement!
You should all thank my koi, Calli, for this chapter being finished. She sent me on a guilt trip (without knowing it) >.> Luvvies to her!
R&R Onegai! No flames!