Kali: Ugh... this took far to long for me to update, but I wasn't in a writing mood and I have had at least 8 tests and 2 projects, plus good old homework, so I've been really busy lately.
Kurama: *Was hoping she forgot about this*
Kali: XD Nope! And I've been thinking up other story ideas... But I REALLY need to finish this and the sequel to Wilted Rose first... Ugh... I'm so lazy
Hiei: *Wants Kali to hurry up with the sequel to WR so he can then beat her for killing Kurama in the first place, and that way she can't keep him dead*
Nuria: ^^ Kali wants to write a story about me! Fweeeee! FEEL MY RATH! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Kurama: *Steals Kali's brother's Ridelin medicine, for those who are too hyper, crushes it up, and puts it in Nuria's food*
Hiei: *Blinks at the picture that Kali drew of Nuria and Kieran* ... What are those blobs supposed to be?
Kali: -_- *Sighs and ignores Hiei* I don't own YYH... But I do own my original characters, and the plot, SO NO TOUCHY! Oo *Hides from her angry brother Jason* I didn't take your meds! I SWEAR!
Kurama: XD *watches as Jason puts Kali in a ahead lock and gets her in trouble with her parents*
~ = Thoughts
Italics = Voices from old memories
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Crevan stood across from Kurama in the clearing, snarling up a storm. He. Was. Pissed. There was no way in hell he would let that youko win this fight. Kurama had a ability that he wanted, but, in order to get it, he would have to kill the youko and take his soul, something he didn't mention to the others, as to make sure they wouldn't go into some murderous rage. He had watched the memory of Kurama's mothers fight against the Worgs and his dream where his mother has awoken the ability inside of him, and even though they were memories, he could feel the power rolling over him and huge golden waves. He licked his dry lips, the black fire around him dancing angrily. The youko standing 40 feet from him looked all to smug for his liking.
"Prepared to die Youko Kurama." To that Kurama gave a soft snort, and the youko pulled a seed from his hair as Crevan leapt forward. Kurama frowned slightly dancing to the side as the demon nearly hit him in the face with Hiei's Fist of the Mortal Flame attack. It was slight, but Hiei was faster then Kurama, and the only reason Crevan hadn't landed a solid punch to Kurama's face was the fact that Crevan wasn't used to such speed. Kurama flicked the seed at Crevan, letting it land at the feet of the illusion demon. Crevan spun, and gave a shriek as large flower 10 feet in diameter in the center nearly grew from beneath him. Its leaves where razor sharp with little barbs on it and long thorned vines thrashed about it ready to grab any moving thing and drag it into the large fanged mouth in the center of the light blue flower.
Crevan growled, darting about the clearing the best her could, vines lashing at his feet, trying to trip him up. Kurama leapt up, perching in a tree to make sure that his plant wouldn't accidently grab him instead of the black skinned demon below. Crevan swung his fist out, striking one of the vines hard, causing it to burst into fire black flames. The mouth of the plant gave a shriek of agony, lashing its barbed vine sand leaves at Crevan faster then before. Crevan smirked, striking the vines and leaves every time one got near him. Though he seemed to be winning against the plant, he was also taking hits. He had a large thorn through his left arm and a fairly nasty leg one, giving him a slight limp. Soon the flowering plant was consumed in black fire.
Crevan's silvery eyes locked with Kurama's gold, and the two demons watched each other for a moment before they moved into action. Crevan summoned balls of black fire, and Kurama called upon his rose whip. As Kurama's feet touched the ground, he darted forward, twisting, leaping, and flipping as balls of black fire flew about him. He was taken by surprise as a beam of fire shot up in his path, causing him to skid to a halt, getting hit hard in the side by Crevan's foot, covered in black fire. Kurama grunted, falling to the ground and rolling once or twice before getting to his feet. He winced slightly, he had heard his rib crack, and his side was burnt, the rolling movement had put any flames on his clothes out thankfully. Once again the demon locked gazes, but Crevan spoke, stopping any actions.
"Seems there is something else about me that you don't know... I can manipulate the abilities of others into new things. Like Hiei's black fire. I can make it so that I can create columns of fire, where as Hiei normally can't." Kurama frowned slightly. That ability wouldn't help him too much... Yuusuke and Kuwabara's abilities couldn't really change into anything else... But making fire shoot from the ground was gonna be a problem. When Crevan did that Kurama had only a second or two to react, or he would be burnt to a crisp. Crevan gave the fox little time to think it over as he leapt forward, this time with Kuwabara's weapon in his hand. Kurama lashed his whip out, tripping Crevan up as the whip grasped the demons ankle. Crevan hissed falling back as the thorns ripped at his ankle. Quickly though he reacted, and used Kuwabara's ability to extend the spirit sword.
Kurama frowned, as the blade shot at him, he quickly flicked his wrist, pulling the whip back to him, gashing up Crevan's ankle, and darted away. Kurama cursed lightly as the blade followed him around, he had forgotten it could do that. It was slow though, and the youko easily evaded it. He paled slightly as he was soon face to face with Yuusuke's spirit gun. He leapt, flipping over the ball of energy, and quickly twisted. He landed, and leapt to the side, but not in time to avoid having the blade of the rei ken slash open his side. Kurama hissed, wincing and gritting his teeth, catching himself from falling. He turned, ready to summon his whip and lash the shit out of Crevan for that, but he found a fist of black fire in his face. He gave a shriek of pain as his face was burnt badly, his nose broken. He staggered back, calling his whip and lashing forward blindly.
He could tell he had hit his mark as Crevan also gave a shriek of pain. Crevan fell back, his gashed up and swollen ankle giving beneath him. Both demons seemed to take a break, avoiding each others as they tended to their wounds. Crevan was trying to heal the gash in his leg and stomach, and trying to pull the barb out of his left arm. Kurama was holding his face and the gash in his side, also trying to heal them. Kurama hesitantly opened his eyes praying he hadn't been blinded. He was half disappointed and relieved as he found he could see, but his vision was blurry to the point where everything was pretty much colorful blurs. Everything began to focus slowly, but he couldn't wait long enough for it to fully clear. He was having slightly trouble breathing because of the blood coming from his noise, and the blood sticking to his throat.
He made out a dark blur, figuring it to be Crevan. Growling he changed into his fox form slipping into the shadows and underbrush. He wouldn't let Crevan take him by surprise again. The only ki coming from the demon was healing ki, so there were no attacks Kurama would have to watch for. Kurama continued to heal his face as he remained in the protection of the trees and brush. If Crevan approached the mass of thorn bushes, ivy, grasses, and trees where Kurama was hiding, he would have to fend off the mass of plant life. Both demons were getting low on ki, so Kurama figured the fight wouldn't last too much longer, or so he hoped. Kurama's eyes widened and he gave a yelp as he was suddenly picked up and thrown, crashing into a tree. He landed harshly, struggling onto his feet again. His golden eyes darted around, spotting the being that had thrown him, Crevan.
Kurama mentally slapped himself. He had forgotten that Crevan was a master at illusions, meaning the Crevan in the center healing himself was a illusion. Obviously while his eyes had been shut, Crevan had made a illusion and darted off to hide and heal. His claws dug into the dirt beneath his paws, his 4 tails fluffing and bristling in rage, and his lips curling back to show dozens of sharp ivory teeth. Crevan chuckled and wagged one of his index fingers.
"Silly fox. Seems your memory is failing you. Falling for such a simple trick as that. Tsk tsk." Kurama gave a hiss, sick of the demons mocking. Quickly he morphed back into his humanoid form. This was growing annoying, at this rate he would either be skewered or bleed to death before he could kill Crevan. Suddenly a soft whisper caught his attention. His ears folded back, struggling to hear the voice.
"Remember... Remember me... Remember yourself." Kurama frowned. What the hell? Remember himself? He knew himself better then any one, so what was the voice talking about... He blinked surprised as visions of his dream flashed in his mind, giving over the parts where there were little gaps. He frowned, so thats what the voice was talking about... But what was he supposed to remember? He paled and quickly leapt, nearly getting another face full of Crevan's burning fist again. He winced, holding his head as loud screams rang through his head, each from a different person. He recognized several voices that kept talking, their voices whispered into the wind.
"It's not your fault you know... You tried, but those idiots attacked you and stole the antidote..." ~Korunue... My best friend...~
"Yes! I finally did the damned knot right! ... AH! MY TAIL! MY POOR BABY! KURAMA! GET MY TAIL OUT OF THE KNOT!!!" ~FireMouse... The crazy fire demon/tiger spirit/mouse spirit mix...~
"Here... Take this, its the pendent of the fire guardian... My mother made it a long time ago... and now that I'm passing on... I need you... to... watch it... for... me...." ~Rain... The last living gold youko... Like a older sister to me...~
"Kurama... Are you SURE we should be doing this? I mean... What if we get caught?" ~Goomba... Always so cautious... Something uncommon for a male Grund demon~
"Pass it! Pass it to me! OW! I said pass it Kurama! Not beam me in the head!" ~Terk... The only female purple panther spirit I had ever seen that always seemed high on cat nip...~
Kurama once again twisted out of the way just in time to miss a fist of flames to the gut. Why were the voices of his childhood friends coming to him now? He needed to concentrate on fighting! Not memories of the past! Once more the female voice came to his mind, whispering softly.
"Remember my gift to you... Our years together, our fights for one another, and our love for each other." Kurama frowned, finally recognizing the voice.
"Mother?" Crevan paused slightly, growling, ~Shit! He is remembering!~ He was gonna have to move fast if this was going to work. Thankfully Kurama was getting distracted by something. Crevan leapt back, he would have to use the Kokuryuhaa to finish Kurama off. He smirked, holding out both hands, calling dark energy to himself.
~COME AND OBAY ME DARK DRAGON OF REIKAI!~ Kurama though remained oblivious, his eyes unfocused as he drifted off into a world of his own.
.:*:.
We must have been running for ten minute though the woods when mother stopped. Some where along the line she set me down. I don't remember the worgs surrounding us, but they must have cause my mother began to glow a light golden color. I remember standing slightly behind and to the right of her right leg. I think I was clinging to her pants, though I'm not sure. My mother growled darkly, her ki reaching heights I had never seen her do before. I had felt the ki of my father and his clan as they fought, but never had I seen my mother fight, I had never even seen her get angry. I was shocked though as her ki rose to meet my fathers, and then sored beyond it. The demons around us had their mounts pause slightly. Their leader was standing on a large rock outcrop in the distance, perched upon his Worg. He frowned and called out to his clan members.
"What are you waiting for? Kill the vixen in her pup and bring their skins to me!" I gave a slight whimper. My father had always told me stories of how my mother had once been a great warrior of the golden youko clan, but I had never believed him, until now at least. My whimper must have done the trick. My mother gave a shriek of rage and from her form burst out a huge ring of fire, soon the entire forest as far as the eye could see was filled with flames, but no flames I had ever seen before. They were a color of gold, nearly white flames. What made me nervous though was the fact that, only the demons trying to attack us were burning. Me and my mother stood among the flames unharmed. Not a single tree or animal seemed to burn or cry in agony, infarct, the flames felt cool, but the Worg clan didn't seem to think so. They all cried out in agony, and burnt to ashes.
The leader, the only one no touched by the flames had fled, taken by surprise of the flames. My mother was a keep of White Fire, something rare and powerful. I later was told that you could summon spirits using that ability, and they would take their forms in white fire. I had never seen it, but I could image creatures with bodies of white fire, attacking those that dared to hurt me and my mother.
.:*:.
She reached down, and picked me up, holding me as I was finally able to grasp something real other then the rose in this realm. After a moment she sat down, and I felt a warmth flow over me. I looked, but couldn't see what was happening, but some how I knew, she was awakening something within me... She was awakening the ability of White Fire that was held within my spirit.
.:*:.
Kurama held his head, groaning slightly as the wash of memories came back. He paled suddenly as he was hit with the huge feeling of Crevan's ki. His golden eyes flicked open to find Crevan before him, laughing insanely, surrounded by black fire. Suddenly Crevan gave a cry and the Kokuryuhaa shot forward. Crevan though was taken by surprised as Kurama stood his grown, his eyes shutting and face tensing in concentration. He gave a angered cry as he saw a symbol of a golden fox glowing upon Kurama's left shoulder, the mark his mother gave him when she had awoke his ability of White Fire within him. Kurama reached out, calling forth the spirits of past. Crevan paled and called out as a fox made of White Fire burst forward from Kurama's body, Kurama had called the spirit of his mother letting her take her fox form using Kurama's fire.
"NO! Damn it! I WILL KILL YOU!!!" The Dragon roared, splitting to form a body with 5 long necks, each with a open mawed head. The fire made of fire hissed, leaping on top the head of one of the dragons, she darted about and round the necks using her long fire tails, that reached back to Kurama's body, to wrap about and hold together the necks of the dragon. Turning she latched onto the neck of the one of the dragons. Sparks of a faint golden white hue, and purplish black flew about. The dragon cried out in pain as the fangs made of fire from the fox lashed. The fox though let go leaping back. Before the dragon could lunge forth out, she threw her head back giving a yipping howl out, and a white of white fire came from her form and slammed into the dragon, ripping at it, and tearing apart.
Both Kurama and Crevan dropped to the ground, panting and sweating. The form of the fox flickered and grew small, her tails no longer wrapped around Kurama's arm. Quickly she trotted back, rubbing her head against Kurama's body before she absorbed into Kurama's body. Kurama blink and took a deep breath as the second she entered him, he felt as if he hadn't used a ounce of his ki. He quickly got over his shock standing with a smirk and walking forward, his body now wreathed in the white, nearly golden flames. The entire forest seemed to glow. Crevan paled, feeling death slowly coming upon him. Kurama snarled and leapt as Crevan started to scramble to his feet. His right hand latched around the black skinned throat of the illusion demon, his eyes narrowing and his smirk fading as he spoke.
"Never... EVER... Mess with my mate, or my mother... EVER..." With that the entire clearing and some of the surrounding forest seemed to erupt into flames of white fire. Crevan blinked though as the fire didn't burn him. He glanced around, nothing seemed to be actually burning, and nothing smelt of smoke. Kurama's smirk reappeared.
"There was something that some one forgot to tell you about me..." Crevan frowned, noticing that Kurama was using the same phrase he had used every time he told the Spirit Detectives something new about his abilities.
"I can control what, and what not, my white fire burns..." Crevan paled, his mouth opening, but his words were cut off as suddenly his world erupted in pain. His gave a deafening shriek as his flesh began to burn away his bones blackening. Soon though he grew silent, and his body turned to ash. Kurama frowned down at the pile of ash, kicking it with his foot causing a small cloud to rise up. He glanced over at the others, the flames about them disappearing, allowing him to see them. He saw the poison seep from their wounds, and the bite marks fade away, they were fine now. He glanced around at the area around himself, the rest of the clearing, and some of the surrounding forest that was still covered in fire. The dancing white, gold tinted, flames seemed to hold him in a trance, only broken as he heard several groans.
He glanced over to see the others slowly getting to his feet Botan and Yukina arriving, probably to heal any wounds.
.:*:.
Yuusuke groaned sitting up. If he hadn't known that his head ache was from the fight, he could have sworn he had a hang over. He was distract from his thoughts as he heard several other groans. His eyes flickered open as e heard a few gasps. His eyes grew wide as he looked around. He saw Hiei, Kuwabara, Yukina, Shori, and Botan, but what took him by surprise was the dancing light gold flames about them. What made him more nervous was the fact that the flames were giving off cool air. He noticed though that Hiei and the others were staring else where. He turned his body, looking to see what had caught their attention, praying it was Crevan. He gave a soft yelp as he saw Kurama standing there, his head turned, eyes staring at them, surrounded in the fire. The fire didn't seem to be burning him, and he didn't seem to be in pain, though he had several wounds.
.:*:.
Kurama watched as his friends and mother slowly awoke, sitting up right. He stayed silent as he saw a few of them gasp and stare at him wide eyed. It took Yuusuke a while, but he saw the Detective look at him, and he heard a soft yelp come from the boy. His blank face faltered, giving a frown, as the world quivered, and went black. He felt the ground slam into him, though he felt no pain as he drifted off into a world of dreams.
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Kali: Oo Whoo! Done! ^^; Looks like I'll be doing the next chapter tonight for two reasons. 1) I had already started it, but cut it and pasted it as the start of the next chapter, cause stopping at his cliff hanger seemed best, and 2) I wanna make up for taking so long to update this story, plus the hard part is over and I'm having a good time ^^... *adds a 3rd reason spontaneously* And I want to finish the sequel to Wilted Rose so I can start a silly fic that I planned a LOOOONG time ago.
Kurama: -_- I remember that... wasn't that the one you made up when you and Sam had a sleep over and you two were hyper and high on koolaid?
Kali: XD Yeah.
Kurama: Damn...
Nuria: DAMN!
Hiei: NOW who is the one teaching her to curse?
Kurama: *Cough* Not me... I would NEVER do that...
Hiei: ... Baka
Kurama: ^^
Kali: ^^; Yeah... any way....
Nuria: R&R!
Kali: XD *Pets Nuria* I have trained you well!
Kurama: *Was hoping she forgot about this*
Kali: XD Nope! And I've been thinking up other story ideas... But I REALLY need to finish this and the sequel to Wilted Rose first... Ugh... I'm so lazy
Hiei: *Wants Kali to hurry up with the sequel to WR so he can then beat her for killing Kurama in the first place, and that way she can't keep him dead*
Nuria: ^^ Kali wants to write a story about me! Fweeeee! FEEL MY RATH! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Kurama: *Steals Kali's brother's Ridelin medicine, for those who are too hyper, crushes it up, and puts it in Nuria's food*
Hiei: *Blinks at the picture that Kali drew of Nuria and Kieran* ... What are those blobs supposed to be?
Kali: -_- *Sighs and ignores Hiei* I don't own YYH... But I do own my original characters, and the plot, SO NO TOUCHY! Oo *Hides from her angry brother Jason* I didn't take your meds! I SWEAR!
Kurama: XD *watches as Jason puts Kali in a ahead lock and gets her in trouble with her parents*
~ = Thoughts
Italics = Voices from old memories
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Crevan stood across from Kurama in the clearing, snarling up a storm. He. Was. Pissed. There was no way in hell he would let that youko win this fight. Kurama had a ability that he wanted, but, in order to get it, he would have to kill the youko and take his soul, something he didn't mention to the others, as to make sure they wouldn't go into some murderous rage. He had watched the memory of Kurama's mothers fight against the Worgs and his dream where his mother has awoken the ability inside of him, and even though they were memories, he could feel the power rolling over him and huge golden waves. He licked his dry lips, the black fire around him dancing angrily. The youko standing 40 feet from him looked all to smug for his liking.
"Prepared to die Youko Kurama." To that Kurama gave a soft snort, and the youko pulled a seed from his hair as Crevan leapt forward. Kurama frowned slightly dancing to the side as the demon nearly hit him in the face with Hiei's Fist of the Mortal Flame attack. It was slight, but Hiei was faster then Kurama, and the only reason Crevan hadn't landed a solid punch to Kurama's face was the fact that Crevan wasn't used to such speed. Kurama flicked the seed at Crevan, letting it land at the feet of the illusion demon. Crevan spun, and gave a shriek as large flower 10 feet in diameter in the center nearly grew from beneath him. Its leaves where razor sharp with little barbs on it and long thorned vines thrashed about it ready to grab any moving thing and drag it into the large fanged mouth in the center of the light blue flower.
Crevan growled, darting about the clearing the best her could, vines lashing at his feet, trying to trip him up. Kurama leapt up, perching in a tree to make sure that his plant wouldn't accidently grab him instead of the black skinned demon below. Crevan swung his fist out, striking one of the vines hard, causing it to burst into fire black flames. The mouth of the plant gave a shriek of agony, lashing its barbed vine sand leaves at Crevan faster then before. Crevan smirked, striking the vines and leaves every time one got near him. Though he seemed to be winning against the plant, he was also taking hits. He had a large thorn through his left arm and a fairly nasty leg one, giving him a slight limp. Soon the flowering plant was consumed in black fire.
Crevan's silvery eyes locked with Kurama's gold, and the two demons watched each other for a moment before they moved into action. Crevan summoned balls of black fire, and Kurama called upon his rose whip. As Kurama's feet touched the ground, he darted forward, twisting, leaping, and flipping as balls of black fire flew about him. He was taken by surprise as a beam of fire shot up in his path, causing him to skid to a halt, getting hit hard in the side by Crevan's foot, covered in black fire. Kurama grunted, falling to the ground and rolling once or twice before getting to his feet. He winced slightly, he had heard his rib crack, and his side was burnt, the rolling movement had put any flames on his clothes out thankfully. Once again the demon locked gazes, but Crevan spoke, stopping any actions.
"Seems there is something else about me that you don't know... I can manipulate the abilities of others into new things. Like Hiei's black fire. I can make it so that I can create columns of fire, where as Hiei normally can't." Kurama frowned slightly. That ability wouldn't help him too much... Yuusuke and Kuwabara's abilities couldn't really change into anything else... But making fire shoot from the ground was gonna be a problem. When Crevan did that Kurama had only a second or two to react, or he would be burnt to a crisp. Crevan gave the fox little time to think it over as he leapt forward, this time with Kuwabara's weapon in his hand. Kurama lashed his whip out, tripping Crevan up as the whip grasped the demons ankle. Crevan hissed falling back as the thorns ripped at his ankle. Quickly though he reacted, and used Kuwabara's ability to extend the spirit sword.
Kurama frowned, as the blade shot at him, he quickly flicked his wrist, pulling the whip back to him, gashing up Crevan's ankle, and darted away. Kurama cursed lightly as the blade followed him around, he had forgotten it could do that. It was slow though, and the youko easily evaded it. He paled slightly as he was soon face to face with Yuusuke's spirit gun. He leapt, flipping over the ball of energy, and quickly twisted. He landed, and leapt to the side, but not in time to avoid having the blade of the rei ken slash open his side. Kurama hissed, wincing and gritting his teeth, catching himself from falling. He turned, ready to summon his whip and lash the shit out of Crevan for that, but he found a fist of black fire in his face. He gave a shriek of pain as his face was burnt badly, his nose broken. He staggered back, calling his whip and lashing forward blindly.
He could tell he had hit his mark as Crevan also gave a shriek of pain. Crevan fell back, his gashed up and swollen ankle giving beneath him. Both demons seemed to take a break, avoiding each others as they tended to their wounds. Crevan was trying to heal the gash in his leg and stomach, and trying to pull the barb out of his left arm. Kurama was holding his face and the gash in his side, also trying to heal them. Kurama hesitantly opened his eyes praying he hadn't been blinded. He was half disappointed and relieved as he found he could see, but his vision was blurry to the point where everything was pretty much colorful blurs. Everything began to focus slowly, but he couldn't wait long enough for it to fully clear. He was having slightly trouble breathing because of the blood coming from his noise, and the blood sticking to his throat.
He made out a dark blur, figuring it to be Crevan. Growling he changed into his fox form slipping into the shadows and underbrush. He wouldn't let Crevan take him by surprise again. The only ki coming from the demon was healing ki, so there were no attacks Kurama would have to watch for. Kurama continued to heal his face as he remained in the protection of the trees and brush. If Crevan approached the mass of thorn bushes, ivy, grasses, and trees where Kurama was hiding, he would have to fend off the mass of plant life. Both demons were getting low on ki, so Kurama figured the fight wouldn't last too much longer, or so he hoped. Kurama's eyes widened and he gave a yelp as he was suddenly picked up and thrown, crashing into a tree. He landed harshly, struggling onto his feet again. His golden eyes darted around, spotting the being that had thrown him, Crevan.
Kurama mentally slapped himself. He had forgotten that Crevan was a master at illusions, meaning the Crevan in the center healing himself was a illusion. Obviously while his eyes had been shut, Crevan had made a illusion and darted off to hide and heal. His claws dug into the dirt beneath his paws, his 4 tails fluffing and bristling in rage, and his lips curling back to show dozens of sharp ivory teeth. Crevan chuckled and wagged one of his index fingers.
"Silly fox. Seems your memory is failing you. Falling for such a simple trick as that. Tsk tsk." Kurama gave a hiss, sick of the demons mocking. Quickly he morphed back into his humanoid form. This was growing annoying, at this rate he would either be skewered or bleed to death before he could kill Crevan. Suddenly a soft whisper caught his attention. His ears folded back, struggling to hear the voice.
"Remember... Remember me... Remember yourself." Kurama frowned. What the hell? Remember himself? He knew himself better then any one, so what was the voice talking about... He blinked surprised as visions of his dream flashed in his mind, giving over the parts where there were little gaps. He frowned, so thats what the voice was talking about... But what was he supposed to remember? He paled and quickly leapt, nearly getting another face full of Crevan's burning fist again. He winced, holding his head as loud screams rang through his head, each from a different person. He recognized several voices that kept talking, their voices whispered into the wind.
"It's not your fault you know... You tried, but those idiots attacked you and stole the antidote..." ~Korunue... My best friend...~
"Yes! I finally did the damned knot right! ... AH! MY TAIL! MY POOR BABY! KURAMA! GET MY TAIL OUT OF THE KNOT!!!" ~FireMouse... The crazy fire demon/tiger spirit/mouse spirit mix...~
"Here... Take this, its the pendent of the fire guardian... My mother made it a long time ago... and now that I'm passing on... I need you... to... watch it... for... me...." ~Rain... The last living gold youko... Like a older sister to me...~
"Kurama... Are you SURE we should be doing this? I mean... What if we get caught?" ~Goomba... Always so cautious... Something uncommon for a male Grund demon~
"Pass it! Pass it to me! OW! I said pass it Kurama! Not beam me in the head!" ~Terk... The only female purple panther spirit I had ever seen that always seemed high on cat nip...~
Kurama once again twisted out of the way just in time to miss a fist of flames to the gut. Why were the voices of his childhood friends coming to him now? He needed to concentrate on fighting! Not memories of the past! Once more the female voice came to his mind, whispering softly.
"Remember my gift to you... Our years together, our fights for one another, and our love for each other." Kurama frowned, finally recognizing the voice.
"Mother?" Crevan paused slightly, growling, ~Shit! He is remembering!~ He was gonna have to move fast if this was going to work. Thankfully Kurama was getting distracted by something. Crevan leapt back, he would have to use the Kokuryuhaa to finish Kurama off. He smirked, holding out both hands, calling dark energy to himself.
~COME AND OBAY ME DARK DRAGON OF REIKAI!~ Kurama though remained oblivious, his eyes unfocused as he drifted off into a world of his own.
.:*:.
We must have been running for ten minute though the woods when mother stopped. Some where along the line she set me down. I don't remember the worgs surrounding us, but they must have cause my mother began to glow a light golden color. I remember standing slightly behind and to the right of her right leg. I think I was clinging to her pants, though I'm not sure. My mother growled darkly, her ki reaching heights I had never seen her do before. I had felt the ki of my father and his clan as they fought, but never had I seen my mother fight, I had never even seen her get angry. I was shocked though as her ki rose to meet my fathers, and then sored beyond it. The demons around us had their mounts pause slightly. Their leader was standing on a large rock outcrop in the distance, perched upon his Worg. He frowned and called out to his clan members.
"What are you waiting for? Kill the vixen in her pup and bring their skins to me!" I gave a slight whimper. My father had always told me stories of how my mother had once been a great warrior of the golden youko clan, but I had never believed him, until now at least. My whimper must have done the trick. My mother gave a shriek of rage and from her form burst out a huge ring of fire, soon the entire forest as far as the eye could see was filled with flames, but no flames I had ever seen before. They were a color of gold, nearly white flames. What made me nervous though was the fact that, only the demons trying to attack us were burning. Me and my mother stood among the flames unharmed. Not a single tree or animal seemed to burn or cry in agony, infarct, the flames felt cool, but the Worg clan didn't seem to think so. They all cried out in agony, and burnt to ashes.
The leader, the only one no touched by the flames had fled, taken by surprise of the flames. My mother was a keep of White Fire, something rare and powerful. I later was told that you could summon spirits using that ability, and they would take their forms in white fire. I had never seen it, but I could image creatures with bodies of white fire, attacking those that dared to hurt me and my mother.
.:*:.
She reached down, and picked me up, holding me as I was finally able to grasp something real other then the rose in this realm. After a moment she sat down, and I felt a warmth flow over me. I looked, but couldn't see what was happening, but some how I knew, she was awakening something within me... She was awakening the ability of White Fire that was held within my spirit.
.:*:.
Kurama held his head, groaning slightly as the wash of memories came back. He paled suddenly as he was hit with the huge feeling of Crevan's ki. His golden eyes flicked open to find Crevan before him, laughing insanely, surrounded by black fire. Suddenly Crevan gave a cry and the Kokuryuhaa shot forward. Crevan though was taken by surprised as Kurama stood his grown, his eyes shutting and face tensing in concentration. He gave a angered cry as he saw a symbol of a golden fox glowing upon Kurama's left shoulder, the mark his mother gave him when she had awoke his ability of White Fire within him. Kurama reached out, calling forth the spirits of past. Crevan paled and called out as a fox made of White Fire burst forward from Kurama's body, Kurama had called the spirit of his mother letting her take her fox form using Kurama's fire.
"NO! Damn it! I WILL KILL YOU!!!" The Dragon roared, splitting to form a body with 5 long necks, each with a open mawed head. The fire made of fire hissed, leaping on top the head of one of the dragons, she darted about and round the necks using her long fire tails, that reached back to Kurama's body, to wrap about and hold together the necks of the dragon. Turning she latched onto the neck of the one of the dragons. Sparks of a faint golden white hue, and purplish black flew about. The dragon cried out in pain as the fangs made of fire from the fox lashed. The fox though let go leaping back. Before the dragon could lunge forth out, she threw her head back giving a yipping howl out, and a white of white fire came from her form and slammed into the dragon, ripping at it, and tearing apart.
Both Kurama and Crevan dropped to the ground, panting and sweating. The form of the fox flickered and grew small, her tails no longer wrapped around Kurama's arm. Quickly she trotted back, rubbing her head against Kurama's body before she absorbed into Kurama's body. Kurama blink and took a deep breath as the second she entered him, he felt as if he hadn't used a ounce of his ki. He quickly got over his shock standing with a smirk and walking forward, his body now wreathed in the white, nearly golden flames. The entire forest seemed to glow. Crevan paled, feeling death slowly coming upon him. Kurama snarled and leapt as Crevan started to scramble to his feet. His right hand latched around the black skinned throat of the illusion demon, his eyes narrowing and his smirk fading as he spoke.
"Never... EVER... Mess with my mate, or my mother... EVER..." With that the entire clearing and some of the surrounding forest seemed to erupt into flames of white fire. Crevan blinked though as the fire didn't burn him. He glanced around, nothing seemed to be actually burning, and nothing smelt of smoke. Kurama's smirk reappeared.
"There was something that some one forgot to tell you about me..." Crevan frowned, noticing that Kurama was using the same phrase he had used every time he told the Spirit Detectives something new about his abilities.
"I can control what, and what not, my white fire burns..." Crevan paled, his mouth opening, but his words were cut off as suddenly his world erupted in pain. His gave a deafening shriek as his flesh began to burn away his bones blackening. Soon though he grew silent, and his body turned to ash. Kurama frowned down at the pile of ash, kicking it with his foot causing a small cloud to rise up. He glanced over at the others, the flames about them disappearing, allowing him to see them. He saw the poison seep from their wounds, and the bite marks fade away, they were fine now. He glanced around at the area around himself, the rest of the clearing, and some of the surrounding forest that was still covered in fire. The dancing white, gold tinted, flames seemed to hold him in a trance, only broken as he heard several groans.
He glanced over to see the others slowly getting to his feet Botan and Yukina arriving, probably to heal any wounds.
.:*:.
Yuusuke groaned sitting up. If he hadn't known that his head ache was from the fight, he could have sworn he had a hang over. He was distract from his thoughts as he heard several other groans. His eyes flickered open as e heard a few gasps. His eyes grew wide as he looked around. He saw Hiei, Kuwabara, Yukina, Shori, and Botan, but what took him by surprise was the dancing light gold flames about them. What made him more nervous was the fact that the flames were giving off cool air. He noticed though that Hiei and the others were staring else where. He turned his body, looking to see what had caught their attention, praying it was Crevan. He gave a soft yelp as he saw Kurama standing there, his head turned, eyes staring at them, surrounded in the fire. The fire didn't seem to be burning him, and he didn't seem to be in pain, though he had several wounds.
.:*:.
Kurama watched as his friends and mother slowly awoke, sitting up right. He stayed silent as he saw a few of them gasp and stare at him wide eyed. It took Yuusuke a while, but he saw the Detective look at him, and he heard a soft yelp come from the boy. His blank face faltered, giving a frown, as the world quivered, and went black. He felt the ground slam into him, though he felt no pain as he drifted off into a world of dreams.
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Kali: Oo Whoo! Done! ^^; Looks like I'll be doing the next chapter tonight for two reasons. 1) I had already started it, but cut it and pasted it as the start of the next chapter, cause stopping at his cliff hanger seemed best, and 2) I wanna make up for taking so long to update this story, plus the hard part is over and I'm having a good time ^^... *adds a 3rd reason spontaneously* And I want to finish the sequel to Wilted Rose so I can start a silly fic that I planned a LOOOONG time ago.
Kurama: -_- I remember that... wasn't that the one you made up when you and Sam had a sleep over and you two were hyper and high on koolaid?
Kali: XD Yeah.
Kurama: Damn...
Nuria: DAMN!
Hiei: NOW who is the one teaching her to curse?
Kurama: *Cough* Not me... I would NEVER do that...
Hiei: ... Baka
Kurama: ^^
Kali: ^^; Yeah... any way....
Nuria: R&R!
Kali: XD *Pets Nuria* I have trained you well!