Tamashii no RUFURAN; Soul's Refrain "Yokai and Ningen Tamashii"
Genkai Temple
Botan, Yuusuke, Kurama, Kuwabara, Hiei and Yukina sat there on the floor with Genkai in front of them; tea cups in front of their laps. The old woman had her eyes closed as she was in deep thought. Botan fiddle with the edge of her shirt as Kurama reached over and drank the tea that was set out. Yuusuke was becoming restless and annoyed of just sitting here and doing nothing.
He opened his mouth to say something but Genkai's eyes open. "So, she has amnesia, right?" She asked. Kurama nodded. "And her true Yokai Tamashii seemed to take over for her survival as well as destroying her Ningen Tamashii?" Kurama nodded again. Yuusuke was getting fed up.
"Look here baba-san! We told you this over and over again! Why do you keep asking the same stupid questions we had already answered!??" Genkai looked at the shouting boy and sighed.
"Because dimwit, if it's true what you four just told me, then there's really no choice but to kill her." Botan and Yukina gasp as Kurama eyes widen. Kuwabara choked on his drink as Yuusuke looked like he'd just been slapped. Hiei just merely stared at the old psyhic.
"Genkai-sama," Botan began, looking horrofied. "You can't mean that, can you? It's not Lii's fault, she doesn't know what she's doing!" Genkai heaved another sigh.
"It is her fault." She said lowly. "She knew the consquences of having a Ningen Tamashii inside with her own Tamashii. She knew that if she was ever knocked out too long or had some kind of head injury, her Yokai Tamashii would take over, to protect her. The samething happens to Kurama." Genkai pointed out. "When Kurama's human body is damage badly his own Yokai Tamashii comes out and protects him."
"But what does this have to do anything with Lii's Human Soul?" Asked Kuwabara.
"You've all witness that when Kurama's human body is endanger, he changes into Youko Kurama, correct?" Everyone nodded. Genkai closed her eyes. "Did you've notice that when you saw Lii, she still looked human still, but slowly changing into her youkoself?" The four boys nodded.
"With a Ningen Tamashii inside Lii's body itself, it weaken her whole Tamashii itself, and everytime she changes into her youkoself, she little by little destroys the Ningen Tamashii, because it wasn't supposed to be there in the first place. See when Kurama was reborn, he had fused with the Ningen Tamashii within him; making him and the Tamashii whole."
Yuusuke shook his head a little confused. "But what about those times when Lii had changed? She didn't seem to take forever to change in her orignal form. Why now?"
"Because with Lii's mind in a state of amnesia and her Yokai Tamashii now in charge. Her Ningen Tamshii is what slowling the process of becoming a youko once more."
"Wait, wait, wait." Yuusuke held up a hand. "You're telling me that Lii's Demon Soul had taken over her body?!"
Genkai glared at him. "That's what Kurama and I have been saying, baka! So how much you pay attention."
"But how can Lii's OWN soul take over her BODY!?" He demanded.
"Because Lii's Soul sortof have a mind of it's own." Kurama whispered quietly. "And it only acts when something like this happens." Kuwabara flinched.
"That's just scary to think about."
Botan blinked. "Well, Lii was born with all Nine-tails at birth, ne?" Kurama nodded as she looked at him. "So I wouldn't be surprised if she could even do something like this."
"What happens when her Human Soul is completely destroyed?" Hiei asked, softly. Yukina looked at him, but seeing the fire youkai kept his eyes firmly on Genkai.
Genkai sighed again and crossed her arms and closed her eyes. Kurama closed his eyes fearing the words he didn't want to hear at all.
"If Lii doesn't regain her memories back before her Ningen Tamashii is completely destroyed by her Yokai Tamashii. Then she would become a Youko again, but she wouldn't be our Lii anymore. She would be a demon loose in the Humanworld with no memories of her past; probably destroying everything in sight. That could be a problem for the Humanworld itself, since she a S-class demon..... maybe way beyond an S-class."
Botan clutched her chest. "It kind of looks like that Lii's Ningen Tamashii seemed to be protecing Lii herself from her own Yokai Tamashii."
Kuwabara looked at her, a bit confused. "But why?" She said nothing and just clutched her chest tighter.
"Kuso!" Yuusuke pounded his fist into the wood floor. Genkai just rose any eyebrow as she sipped her tea. "How can we get her memories back when she thinks that Kurama killed her own family." Genkai's eyebrow rose higher.
"She thinks Kurama killed her family?" Kurama nodded and held one of his arms.
"She said I was trying to trick her when I was the one that killed her family." He shook his head. "I don't know why she thinks that when she said she doesn't even knew who I was." Hiei watched the redhead clutched his arm tighter. Yukina reached over and tried to soothe the youko.
"Hmm," The old woman set her cup down. "Maybe she can remember things, but when she does they come in flashes but not in order." Everyone looked at her. "Maybe she had a flash of you then another flash of her family being murdered. Did she say which one?" Kurama shook his head.
Kuwabara scartched back of his head. "So, she's probably having flashes of her memories, but since it isn't Lii that in charge anymore but her demonself. Her demonself is probably thinking that was how it happened?" Kuwabara asked. Genkai nodded.
"Sounds like it."
Hiei smirked. "Well, I guess the moron does have a brain after all?" He said. Kuwabara glared at him.
"Shut up, shrimpy!!" Botan pulled the orange hair boy back before he could tackle the fire youkai. Yuusuke gave a small smile, but it quickly disappeared.
"But if that's so, then we still have to...." He let his voice drift off. Kurama shook his head furiously.
"I can't kill her! I can't! I don't care if she thinks I was the one that killed any of her family. I don't care if she trys to kill me. I. Just. Can't. Kill. Her." Yuusuke nodded.
"I thought so," Genkai said. "So the least you four can probably do is cause her to lose so much blood that she would pass out."
"And then what?" Botan asked. Genkai just shrugged.
"And just hope that somehow both of Lii's Tamashii can become one." She said. "And also hope that you four can all do this before King Enma finds out and take Lii out his way; knowing that she would be a threat if she becomes her demonself." The group nodded.
Red eyes blinked then blinked again.
Lii stretch out her hands towards the moonless night as she embedded herself in a garden filled with roses. By the looks of where she was her Ningen Tamashii would whisper park to her. She cocked a slender dark eyebrow.
The Ningen Tamashii.
She could feel it within this human body she was a discomfort in. She didn't know how she became human nor did she know why she was human in the first place and in the Human World.
Lii inhaled deeply, the scent of roses filling her nostrils. She didn't know why, but the smell of them seemed to comfort her in a very odd way. They reminded her of the that redheaded boy that killed her youko-pack. He smelled strongly of roses even though he was human and he also smelled of yokai.
An eyelid barely slit open to reveal the red orbs beneath it. She knew that human killed her family, those flashbacks of her memories told her so and they were also the key of unlocking her past. She wanted to know what had happen to her in the past years, but they were soo deep and was going to take sometime.
Lii's mind drifted back to the redheaded human with those green eyes of sadness. He looked familiar. So familiar, but where had she seen him and why did she feel like she wanted to run to him for comfort, knowing he would protect her as his scent of roses would cause her to fall alseep. She never knew anyone that smelled strongly of roses.
Not even Youko's smelled of roses like him, She thought. Not even I. I smell of sage, that is my scent.
Red eyes opened up a bit more. Lii played with her black blue hair to see strands of tainted gold-yellow creeping through it. She smiled. She was becoming her youkoself, but it was happening very slowly. Her red eyes narrowed in anger.
It's because of that stupid Ningen Tamashii. It's slowling the process down. Lii fumed lightly. I have to get it out soon. Stupid Human Soul.
Lii settaled back against the tall grass, she had turned into a nest to her liking as it was secluded by the many roses. She breathed in deeply, more roses filling her nose.
Something wet slid down her cheek.
Lii sat up and reached to her cheek; her fingers became lightly moist. Lii looked at her fingers to see blood smeared on it. Am I crying? She thought in confusion. She felt more blood tears unconciously slid down from her eyes and down her cheek. Lii wiped them away, confused. She wasn't sad, hurt or angry. Why was she crying????
Her eyes widen a bit.
The Ningen Tamashii. It's crying. By why is it crying? Does it know something? Is it trying to tell me something?
The half-youko pup closed her eyes and desperatly to tried listen for the faint voice of the Human Soul. She heard it, but it was too faint for her to even make out what it was saying.
Lii opened up her eyes that still continued to cry her blood tears. She squeezed them tight in order to stop it, but they still leaked out. Opening up her eyes in frustration, Lii looked up at the starless night.
Why do you cry? Why do you cry? Whywhywhy??? How can you even cry if you are nothing but a Human Soul?? Why do I feel sadness within my mind, but I know it's not coming from me??
More tears began to come, streaking the pale cheeks trails of red. The blood tears ran down her chin and under her jaw and down her slender neck before soaking into the hem of the staind shirt.
Oh Inari-sama. Please help me with this insanity I'm about to be thrown in. Please help...
Dark hair flew upwards as Lii head flung back. Her back settaled against her nest once more. Lii curled up into a ball, shivering not from cold but from panic and confusion. Red eyes slowly hide behind closing eyelids as the blood tears had stopped by themselves.
The scent of a familiar rose unconciously lulled Lii to sleep as spiraled into a dreamless sleep.