Disclaimer: I'll say this again: I do not own any of the YYH characters but I do own Yuki…hehe and I own all the other characters that are not YYH.
Author's Note: Eh what you are going to read…I have to say it's a bit cheesy and lame (in my opinion and I wrote it so I am not just saying that…xD) but I hope you enjoy it! And I just noticed that whenever there are three periods "…" it appears to be one…so if you see like: this.is.what.I'm.saying., it's most likely the three dots,,,so I have changed them to three commas. xD
[[EDIT]] I have figured the ways of the three dots. No more commas =)
Me: Yuki thank the nice people who reviewed!
Yuki: ...
Me: Okay…anyone?
Kuwabara: I WANT TO THANK ALL MY LOVING FANS! I, KAZUMA KUWABARA WISH TO THANK MY MOTHER, MY SISTER—
Shizuru: DON'T EMBARRASS OUR FAMILY NAME LIKE THAT!! -goes and beats the crap outta Kuwabara-
Kuwabara: ...mommy?
Chapter Three: Memories of the Past
Yukina heard terrible laughter, angry voices, and running steps.
'Oh no…it's that man again…'
She sat down on her chair and braced herself.
The door banged open, shaking little rocks and dust particles off the ceiling, creating a dusty smokescreen at the doorway. Unable to see anyone Yukina called out, "Who's there?"
"IT'S ME KUWABARA!! HERE TO SAVE YOU!!!"
"Kazuma?" she said confused.
The smoke cleared away, revealing five people at the doorway. She squinted and saw five vague silhouettes of people; a tall, red-haired figure, Kuwabara, a short guy with spiky hair, Hiei, a tall long red-headed person, Kurama, a medium height guy with black hair smoothed over, Yusuke, and a short figure of a black-haired girl—
'No…way…she's dead!'
"Yuki?!" Yukina exclaimed, not believing her eyes.
"Huh—" Yuki choked, waving the smoke away.
'Holy—'
"Oh my gosh it is really you!" Yukina shouted happily, rushing over to Yuki, squeezing Yuki to death. Yuki's face turned white from the lack of oxygen.
"Y-u-k-i-n-a?" she said slowly, "c-a-n-t...b-r-e-a-t-h-e..."
"Oh!" Yukina let go of Yuki immediately. Yuki right away began gasping for breath. After Yuki's face turned back to regular color Yukina seized her shoulders.
"Yuki is that really you?" she said breathlessly.
'She's safe…she's really here…he didn't touch her…'
Yuki couldn't think straight. She was here. She was here. And she recognized her. After all these years…
'She doesn't look a thing different. Hopefully she's still the same.'
The rest of the gang was stunned.
"You know Yuki?" Kuwabara asked bewildered.
"Huh? Oh yes she was my best friend when we were just little children!" Yukina explained, "I thought you were dead Yuki!"
Then she hugged Yuki as if she didn't believe she was actually here.
"What do you mean Yukina?" Kuwabara asked, with a questioning look on his face.
Yukina finally let go of Yuki.
"Huh? Oh! You don't know…"
"What? What?!" they questioned Yukina.
"Um…" She looked at Yuki and with her eyes, asked for her permission to tell their tale.
Yuki was still in shock. She bobbed her head up and down, not sure what the hell she just said yes to.
"You see, Yuki's mother Tae and my mother were the best of friends along with Yui, my guardian. They did practically everything together. You know that my mother fell in love with a fire demon? Well one day she introduced the fire demon to Tae and Yui. The fire demon was late for something so his friend (fox demon by the way) dropped by to remind him. Tae fell deeply in love with his friend and his friend loved her as well.
Shortly after my mother was pregnant, Tae also became pregnant. Well anyways they gave birth on the same day. Since Tae only gave birth to a female no one expected her. But my mother gave birth to me and my older brother (A scared look was in Hiei's eyes) so they booted him off the island. My mother committed suicide, which left Tae extremely sad and depressed. So depressed that she couldn't take care of Yuki so she left Yuki at Yui's door and committed suicide as well.
So Yui had to take care of Yuki and me. Yuki and I grew as close as our mothers once were. But one day a powerful demon arrived at the island. He destroyed many buildings and scared all the Koorimes into hiding. Yui, Yuki, and I were hiding in a tree when the demon found us. He attempted to hurt me but Yuki protected me, using powers unnatural for ice demons to use.
The elders there imprisoned Yuki in a dungeon, fearing her power. It became obvious to them that Tae had done the same as my mother. Yui and I tried to persuade the elders that Yuki wouldn't ever attack anyone in the village. The elders ignored us and threw Yuki off the island as well. But that is all I know for I have never seen Yuki until this day...I believed her as dead..."
Yukina said this all very fast if to relieve herself of a heavy burden.
The story brought back memories deep in Yuki's mind that she long ago had pushed them back.
Flashback
"But all I did was save this village!!"
Yuki's voice echoed through the walls of the dungeon, her home for two months already.
"I can't believe…that they would treat me this way…" she muttered.
'How thick are these people?! I saved their stupid lives and all I get is a prison home for two months…and counting…I wonder how Yukina and Yui are doing…'
Loud footsteps interrupted her thoughts.
"What now? Gonna put me in a smaller dungeon now?" she yelled angrily. She was known for being quite rebellious at her age.
"Not quite you demon scum," a cold voice answered.
'I wonder if they know they're practically demons themselves…sheesh!'
All of the elders appeared at her cell door. Yuki frowned, usually only one elder came to issue a smaller dungeon or such. If all the elders came…that meant…
"Congratulations, you will be joining your kind soon," the closest one sneered.
"You mean with Yukina and them?" she asked hopefully.
They all laughed. Cruelly. As if she was some stupid animal trying to act human. That's probably their insight on her though.
She couldn't help it. She got scared. She achieved a reputation that she was fearless. Except with Yukina. But no one needed to know that.
"No. You're going over."
End of Flashback
Yuki walked away from Yukina and leaned against the wall next to the window, head down.
"Er...so Yuki what happened after?" Yusuke dared to ask.
Yuki stiffened, not wanted to recall more horrible things in her past.
"Yes Yuki what happened?" Yukina inquired curiously.
She raised her head to look at her.
'She deserves to know…but what bout them? I don't even know who the hell that red-hair guy is! But…it seems that they are close with Yukina…she likes them obviously…they saved her…oh well I'll just make sure that no one here repeats what I'm going to say. Can't believe I'm going to do this...'
"When they dumped me off that damn island I fell on a large branch of a willow tree. That willow tree was part of the Masked Fighters (a gang of Makai thieves) territory. Because of that long fall I had many injuries and fainted from the pain. They took care of me, healing and feeding me. Soon after, I was one of them. They taught me basic fighting skills and stealing skills. One day I was stealing from this demon but he caught me. His powers greatly arose over my own.
He made me his slave. Those five years were a living hell, psh I bet real hell was much better than that. But I practiced my powers in secret so when one day I would defeat him and I did. I ran to the nearest forest and fell asleep. When I woke up I was in a temple owned by the great master Genkai. She trained me for ten years and taught me some human studies such as math. Then I left and returned to my Makai gang. We only gather together when we have to so I usually roamed on my own…until Kuwabara started making a racket."
Kurama couldn't help but noticed when she talked about the demon that made her his slave; she said it so quickly he barely understood what she said. On the other hand no one else seemed to notice.
"Oh…" Yukina said. That's all she could say.
Kuwabara was shocked. "How…are…you…even alive?!"
"I'm not human."
"Well yeah but that's…so…bad…err…do you need a hug or anything?"
"NO."
"Don't bother hiding it! We're not going to think low of you or nothin'—"
"Drop. It."
He shut his mouth. "Well sorry for trying to help," he muttered gruffly.
Suddenly there was the sound of a person's footsteps. All looked up, seeing the skinny boy. Skinny boy stopped completely, face purple.
"What are you doing here?" he asked, looking very nervous.
"Planning your death," Yuki answered smirking. Then she raised her hand and started to say something but Yukina grabbed her hand and pleaded, "NO Yuki!! You killed so much already! Please…let this one live!"
Yuki ceased, looked at her almost pleadingly and lowered her hand.
"All right…" Yukina smiled and thanked her.
"However…" Yuki smiled evilly to Skinny boy, "if you don't get out of here in 5 seconds I will kill you. 5…4…—"
"AHHHHHH!!!" Skinny boy screamed and raced out of there. Yusuke started to laugh. Kuwabara joined in too while Kurama chuckled a bit. Even Yukina smiled a bit.
"Wait who is the red-hair one? I don't remember seeing him here," Yuki asked, pointing at Kurama.
Kurama smiled. "My name is Kurama. Nice to meet you Yuki."
Yuki stared at Kurama for a long time then said, "Haven't I met you before?"
Kurama smiled. "You remember?"
That got everyone's attention.
"What are you guys talking about?" Kuwabara queried.
Yuki gave a start and pointed at him.
"You-you're Yoko Kurama!"
Kurama smiled even bigger. "Some people call me that."
Yuki looked at him, almost in awe.
"I didn't think you remembered me since you were six or around there and half dead."
"What the hell are you talking about?!" Yusuke snapped. Can't people just GET to the point already?
"I nursed her back to health when she fell on the tree," Kurama said, shrugging. "I was staying the night and I happened to stumble upon her."
"Finished the case already Yusuke?" a familiar friendly female voice asked. It was Botan.
"Oh hey Botan. Yeah this case was one of the easiest." Yusuke replied. "Now can I go home?"
"Well in a short while but first Koenma would like to talk to you about your new case."
"WHAT! I just finished one though."
"Yes but this was easy right?"
"Well yeah BUT…ah damn...me and my big mouth..."
"I have to go then," Yukina said. "Yuki do you sure that you don't want to come to the island with me?"
"No thanks, I don't want to see those traitors ever again," Yuki said darkly.
Yukina just gave her compassionate look and said goodbye to everyone, Kuwabara looked like he was going to cry when she said bye to him. She gave Yuki one last hug and disappeared down the staircase. Yuki just watched her go, her face unreadable.
"Let's go then?" Botan said cheerfully.
"Bye then," Yuki said getting up and got ready to jump out the window.
"Wait Yuki," said Botan, "Koenma also wants a word with you about the ice weapon for his father."
"Oh right that…"
"Follow me everyone!" Botan said brightly.
"Hello everyone, case well done," Koenma said when everyone came into his office. "I have a new case. The demon, Shorin, is in the human world—"
"What but that's not possible!" Yuki interrupted, "I killed him a long time ago!"
"I never said he was alive, Yuki. He took over a human body, body unknown. All we know that he wants to regain his body back because 'someone' destroyed it a long time ago." Koenma said, falsely coughing when he said 'someone' and coughed out the word 'Yuki!'
"He has a plan to bring back his body and power back better than ever, but he needs energy. Not just any kind of energy though," Koenma said when Yusuke opened his mouth.
"He needs human energy so he went to the human world and is going to go to Yusuke and Kuwabara's school to get this energy."
"What, he's at our school?" Yusuke and Kuwabara said in unison.
"Yes," Koenma replied, obviously annoyed of being interrupted. "You need to go to the school and try to find out which person is really Shorin in disguise."
"So this is like the Genkai's tournament all over again." Yusuke interrupted again sourly.
"YES NOW STOP INTERRUPTING ME!!" Koenma screeched. "Now for Hiei and Kurama they need to pretend to be foreign exchange students from...umm...China okay? And oh yes Yuki will be joining you guys—"
"What? I never said that I was going to—"
"I have evidence that you stole something important and valuable from my father," Koenma said slyly, waving some papers around. Yuki's eyes dropped when she saw the papers.
"And you know what my father will do to you right?" Koenma continued, plainly enjoying torturing Yuki. Yuki glared at him, than defeated, reluctantly said, "Fine I'll go…"
"I knew you would agree. Hiei, Yuki, and Kurama are foreign exchange students from China. Yusuke and Kuwabara, you two help them fit in okay?" Koenma said.
"Oh wait Botan you should go too...to help them...so Kurama, Hiei, Yuki, AND Botan will be the foreign exchange students OKAY? Oh Yusuke can you ask Keiko to help as well? She can help the girls fit in while you and Kuwabara help the boys fit in."
"Now done with the case Yuki my father would like the ice sword to be not a battling type of sword but a display kind. He will pay you very handsomely for the sword." Koenma said, finished his speech and now was drinking water to smoothen his parched throat.
"A display kind? Umm...okay..." Yuki said confused. Why the hell would anyone want a sword for display?
She took out her hand and formed her hand to look like she was going to grab something. Suddenly a bright dazzling blue light appeared under her hand. The glittering light formed into a vivid shadow of a grand sword. The ghostly shadow turned into solid ice, which glittered and winked at them. The sword comprised engraved pictures on its shining surface, captivating elegant designs of leaves and pictures of bamboo sticks and a panda, sitting lazily in the center of the bamboo sticks, happily eating a stalk. There were also designs of chrysanthemums circling around at the sword's sharp tip. The sword was definitely worthy for display.
"Hmm…" Koenma muttered, his hand over his pacifier, scrutinizing the glorious sword.
"I guess this is okay…—"
"What are you crazy?! Only okay?!" Kuwabara and Yusuke sang out, eyes in disbelief.
"Wow it's gorgeous…" Botan said slowly.
"Where's the money?" Yuki asked impatiently.
"Oh wait a moment I'll get it…" Koenma wheeled himself around and walked into a different room. After a few minutes he came out holding a big money sack, which was bulging with jewels.
"Here," Koenma said giving the sack to Yuki. "Oww...I think I pulled a muscle…" Koenma winced rubbing his tiny arms.
Yuki inspected the insides of the sack, her head disappearing for a minute. She looked satisfied when her head emerged from the sack and again pulled her hand out and the familiar shining light appeared under her hand. This time it formed into a huge icily deposit box. It was as tall as Yuki and as wide as Gonshiro had been. Yuki stepped closer to it and twirled the big code lock. It made a loud clicking noise and Yuki pulled the handle, which was as long as her arm. The door opened easily, displaying huge mounds of jewels and coins. Yuki threw the sack inside and closed the door with a loud boom. Then the deposit box disappeared.
"Where did it go?" Kuwabara wondered aloud.
Yuki looked up at him and said, "It's in my body."
"WHAT?" Kuwabara yelled, obviously freaked.
"I'll show you," Yuki said and formed the samurai sword that Hiei and Kurama saw earlier. Yuki held up her hand, palm facing them so they could see. The samurai sword suddenly gave a mighty lurch up and swiftly went into her palm, which had turned ice. It turned back into a peachy color when the entire sword was gone, sucked through. If Kuwabara was freaked before, it was nothing compared to what he looked like right now.
"How—did you—do that—?" Kuwabara murmured slowly. Yusuke wore an identical expression. Yuki didn't even bother to explain. All the demons looked uninterested though as if they saw this a million times.
"Back to business people!" Koenma announced, clapping his hands to get their attention, therefore snapping Yusuke and Kuwabara out of their trance. "So any questions?"
"Yeah," said Yusuke, "How do we find which student is Shorin? There's like hundreds of students at our school. We can't beat up every single one of them! Though…I wouldn't mind…"
"Hmm...yes how..." Koenma muttered, apparently to be thinking hard.
Suddenly he clapped his hands much like a seal would, and exclaimed, "Wait here!"
He then disappeared to the other room again and ran back, holding a tiny golden ring.
"This ring is called the Spirit Detector. It can detect any spirit energy within 500 yards from it. It also can distinguish which spirit energy is whose. There is a tiny button on the top of the jewel—yes right here," Koenma said, pointing to the top of the small shimmering diamond. "If you press on it (Koenma demonstrated by pressing the tiny silver button) a screen like this one will appear, telling you which spirit energy is whose. It doesn't matter if that person is holding back their spirit energy or trying to hide it, it will show on the screen anyway." A little transparent screen, which had a list of the spirit energy of everyone even Yuki's in the room, appeared when Koenma pressed the button and disappeared when he pressed the button twice.
Koenma threw the ring at Yusuke who caught it. "It should help you finding Shorin."
"No kidding who would know that this tiny ring was so useful?" Yusuke said amazed.
Heh heh…cheesy ain't it? I know it doesn't really sound like Yuki just to tell everyone her past but who would tell then? Yukina only knows the first part and the only other person who knows all is Genkai but she isn't here. So the other keeper of the tale had to tell and that was Yuki! -says this as if this was final- =l And Waldo is currently taking a shit so there's no romance so far. Oh yeah I dedicate this chapter to my Kenshin freak friend, nG for helping me find a name for Yuki's mother.
[[EDIT]] My god. This chapter needed much more work than the other two. When I reread this, I was like "…" it was pathetic! Anyway it was hard for me about Yukina cuz her personality is…unnatural. I'm not sure what she thinks or anything so tell me if it's so not her or it fits her pretty well aite?