Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho however, I wouldn't mind owning Yoko Kurama. Oh well, I do own Akiko, Hisoka, Nami, Haya, Yutaka, and Shocichi, and yes even the dead Mamoru, who will make a cameo.
Smile Bomb Opening Theme
Running in a crowd in a faceless town,
I need to feel the touch of a friend.
In the countryside I wander far and wide,
The isolation gets me again.
I don't know where to go,
When I feel like crying oh my,
It's time to open myself to something new,
I want to stop – and grow up a bit.
Then suddenly my power and confidence starts swelling up magically erupt,
And it's all because of kindness that I feel,
From people I don't even know.
Then suddenly my intuition and my wisdom grow,
And then I know,
That most of all I sense compassions wield into strangers wherever I go,
Thank you for waking me up
Title: The White Flame
Chapter 7: Trapped and Hidden Secrets
By Tainted InuShemeeko
"You looked like you were in a hurry love. I hope my little friends and I aren't keeping you from something important now."
Kurama stiffened as the female blocked his path. Her scent was definitely that of a demon. However who was she and what she wanted with him had him puzzled. Kurama became more and more disturbed the more she spoke of her little friends.
'What on earth could she be speaking of?'
His bright emerald eyes noticed the trees on either side of them.
'The trees! Whatever is with her must be hiding in the trees. I must be on guard at all times, there is no telling what she might do.'
He then took in the demon that stood in front of him. She stood to almost 6 feet. Her hair and eyes were a deep maroon. The demon's skin was a cream color. Kurama locked his eyes on his opponent, when something stung the side of his face. Strangely as the object slid of the side of his face, it felt like hair falling away.
A bruise started to form on his right cheek as he winced at the pain in his face. His eyes darted around him, were had that attack come from?
"Oops sorry there love. Sometimes I just lose control over this thing sometimes."
The sound of something whipping back and forth caused Kurama to look harder at her. He then saw the object that had hit him. A tail very much like a lions whipped wildly behind her. Kurama suddenly pulled out a rose; she was getting ready to strike out at him. This time he would be ready for her. Just as he was sure she was about to strike out at him, he readied himself.
"Rose Whip!"
The marooned eyed demon flipped her-self backwards as Kurama's rose whip shot towards her. Kurama in turn pulled the whip back.
'Some how she was able to predict my movement before I truly carried them out, I must not leave myself open to attack.'
A shrieking sound followed by the beating of wings, warned Kurama that something was on it way toward him. He readied his whip unsure as to what was heading toward him.
Kurama's emerald eyes widened as twenty or more bats came flying at him. Several of the bats flew toward his face. He staggered backwards as more flew in towards him. Their little claws scratching at his face, causing him to cry out, it was then that he realized what they were truly after.
'They're after the blood that is coming from my wound. There is no doubt that she is some how controlling these creatures. I must find a way to get them away from me.'
That was when Kurama decided that it was best if he went on the defensive.
"Petals and Thorns!"
The demoness's maroon eyes widened in surprise; as she watched the rose petals swirl around him.
'Looks like I caught one of the smart ones.'
The bats continued to fly wildly around the rose petals that were now protecting Kurama. He was unsure how long he could keep up his defense.
'I must find a way to confuse her bats. If I can not then there is no sure way of knowing who will win this fight.'
The bats shrieked as they flew around Kurama, they were becoming irritated by the fact that they could not get any closer to him. The female watched as her pets continued to fly around Kurama. A smirk then appeared across her face as she watched Kurama inside his shield of petals.
"How long do you think you can keep that barrier of petals around you until you start to weaken love? If I so chose too, I could blow all of your pretty yet harmful petals away from you."
She then followed Kurama's emerald gaze.
"If you're worried about her," the demoness said indicating Akiko.
"Don't because I'm sure you're too late to help her."
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Akiko's breath caught in her throat as she stared at what lay before her. Her apartment was a mess; her lavender-green then fell on the broken body of her son's babysitter Maya. She couldn't believe that this was happening to her.
'Why is all of this happening now? I've been able to keep him safe for so long and now. Shocichi, please be safe if anything ever happened to you I don't know what I would do.'
Akiko then glanced once more at the broken body of the woman who had become a friend to her. She had loved Shocichi just as much as Akiko did.
"I'm sorry Maya; I hope you find peace in spirit world. Who knows maybe if we are lucky we'll meet again some day. I promise you two things; I will not forget everything you have done for me. Also I will find my son and your death will not be in vain."
That's when she saw it a note that was addressed to her. With a shaking hand Akiko reached over and picked it up.
Dear Akiko,
If you are finding this letter, then you already know I have the boy. I am sure that you want him back it would be a shame for the boy to meet the same fate as his parents.
By all means Akiko Michi let us finish this. If you come quietly there will be no need to kill your friends.
Hisoka
Akiko couldn't believe the nerve of the guy. There was no way she was just going to give herself up to him. Then again there was no way she was going to let him harm any of her friends. That's when she felt some all too familiar demon energy.
"Oh no Kurama, hang in there."
Without another thought Akiko turned and ran down the hallway and then down a flight of stairs. The only problem was that when she was half way down the stairs, something electrifying was blocking her path. He stood about six feet tall, and with his charming good looks one wouldn't think he was a demon. His voice as well betrayed him, for it was as silky and smooth as fine satin.
"I'm sorry but I can not allow you to pass. That is alive any way; I have no problems in helping your soul get to spirit world, for that is the only way you are going to get past me in a body bag."
Akiko stood in a defensive stance, as she looked the demon in front of her over. He had long sky blue hair that was braided down his back, the muscles in his fore arms, chest and abs were very well tone. Yet at the same time it was his melon colored eyes that caught her attention.
"So sorry, I'd love to stay and play, but I really don't have time for any of this."
The demon smiled and laughed lightly at her.
"Oh contraire my dear you have all the time in the world. So says Lord Hisoka, now where are my manners? I haven't properly introduced myself, I am the demon Raidon and I shall be your executioner. So prepare to die human, for I will show you no mercy."
Akiko wasn't given anytime at all as a bolt of blue lightening came out of nowhere and struck her. The impacted from the bolt threw her backwards up the stairs. Her back plowed into the cement wall causing it to crack from the impact. Wiping the blood from her mouth Akiko pulled herself up. She then sped towards Raidon, he had become startled by her speed and at the same time he smirked.
"Are you in that big of a hurry to see your grave, and here I thought that you would be a lot smarter apparently I was wrong. It seems that it does not matter what your gender is for all humans seem to be unintelligent."
This time it was Akiko who smirked, her long raspberry locks whipping wildly behind her.
"Really, well if you want to know I was going to say something like never judge a book by its cover. Then again if you're that dumb to underestimate me, then again maybe you've never had the time to read a book."
Nothing could have prepared her for what was going to happen next. Suddenly without warning huge lightening bolt struck the tile floor trapping Akiko in a cage made completely out of lightening.
"Alright detective, let's see you get out of this one. I promise not to let you suffer too much inside my Cage of Torment."
Cords made completely out of the blue electric waves that seemed to be streaming from Raidon's body as they worked their way over to the cage. The waves then seemed to be pushing through gaps in the electric cage. One of the cords slapped at one of Akiko's bare arms as waves of electricity seemed to pulse as the volts of demon energy started to attack her.
She had to do something there had to be something she could do. Pulling in a breath Akiko tried her best to remain calm; when a sudden volt of energy stuck her body causing her to scream out in pain.Raidon seemed please as he watched Akiko's body slump to the ground.
'Hisoka was wrong there is nothing scary about this girl. Taking her out was like mere child's play.'
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Kurama froze inside his protective shield. He had felt the strong demon energy that had come from the direction of Akiko's apartment. That's also when he had felt her spirit energy spike as well and now? Now he could hardly feel Akiko's spirit energy which he knew was not a good thing.
'I can not afford to stall any longer. I must act quickly, time is of the essence. I can only hope that this will startle her enough to allow me to escape.'
"Rose Darts."
The rose darts were just what he needed as a distraction. He still didn't know who this female demon was, however now was not the time to worry about who she was. He had a friend who needed his help. Kurama watched as two of the four rose darts he threw struck down two of the bats. This caused the demoness to lose focus allowing Kurama the extra couple of seconds he had needed.
For when she looked up again, Kurama had lowered his protective shield. Her maroon eyes widen in shock as she took a shaky step backwards. Hisoka had told her about Kurama's gift with plants. Yet he had failed to tell her that he was also part demon fox. Hisa took another breath before she then realized that she was letting some fox scare her.
"I'm not sure how you managed to transform into a sliver fox, but my orders are to kill you. So kill you I will."
Kurama eyed her with his now liquid gold eyes, as a light breeze blew his sliver locks behind him.
"I do not wish to fight you, however if you remain in my way I will have no choice but to dispose of you."
"You are right fox, one of us will be dying and I'm going to make sure that's it's you."
Kurama winced as her nails drug into the side of his face. He then became angered as a dozen or more bats started to attack him once again. Knocking him off guard as his fox ears rang with the sound of the bats beating wings.
Hisa took this one moment of weakness to attack Kurama once more with her whip like lion tail. Her tail whipped across his chest leaving a large wound in its wake. Kurama crouched down to the ground as he waited for Hisa to attack him again. When she did decide to attack him again, a dozen pointy sharp vines shot down his right arm and into Hisa's arms and legs.
"Why?" Was all Hisa could say as her body fell to the ground.
Kurama then calmly walked over Hisa's body, as he headed once more in the direction of Akiko's apartment. His golden eyes gleamed with a strange sadness as he looked do at his downed opponent.
"Like I said earlier I have no desire to continue fighting you. However, take this warning with you. If I ever have to come into battle with you again, I will not be so merciful. For when your death comes you will not even know it is there until it is too late."
Putting as much distance between him and the demoness with the bats, Kurama hurriedly made his way toward the apartment buildings. That's when her felt it a wild spike in Akiko's spirit energy right before it fade again.
"A weakening in Akiko's life energy, it could only mean that she has used up all of the spirit energy that she has dared. My one fear is that I will not make it in time to save her."
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She had one more trick up her sleeve and then that would be all of the energy she could spare. Seeing how she had used a good bit of it up trying to keep herself alive after that seemly one thousand volt attack from Raidon.
'Ok if I'm going to pull this off it's now or never.'
Akiko reached her hand over and picked a dead leaf off of the ground. As she did so she started to focus as much spirit energy as she could into the small leaf. After a few seconds the leaf began to glow a bright white, the leaf started to grow as Akiko fed it her spirit energy more leaves spouted out from the leaf's stem as the stem suddenly grew into a long white vine filled with white spirit energy.
The spirit vine shot out through a gap in Raidon's Cage of Torment. The more spirit energy Akiko placed into the vine the longer in became. Until the white spirit vine reached Raidon. The vine the started to feed off of the energy Raidon body was releasing. Then closing her eyes Akiko pictured the thorn from a rose and within seconds tiny thorns were digging into Raidon's body.
'Now it's time to use his own attacks again him. I just hope I have enough energy left to do it with.'
Having that extra bit of energy sapped from his body. Raidon Cage of Torment started to fade until Akiko was free from the trap. She then waited, she waited until Raidon tried to attack and when he did she put a wall of spirit energy around her. Then just as a volt of blue lightening was about to hit her, Akiko pushed all of her spirit energy away from her. In doing this Raidon's spirit energy was trapped and was also being pushed right back at him.
"Cleaning Spirit Energy."
Raidon's once blue energy was now fading into a pale blue as it and the rest of Akiko's energy came crashing back at him.
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Kurama shielded his eyes as a wave of Akiko's spirit energy blasted past him. Once the light had faded, he saw that he was once again back in his human form.
"That blast of energy had been huge, surly it did not all come from within Akiko."
His emerald eyes caught sight of the demon that now lay still and unmoving against the far wall.
'Of course not Akiko took the demon's own spirit energy under her control and then fired it back at him.'
Kurama was shook out of his thoughts as the sound of something falling to the ground reached his ears. He watched as Akiko's body collapsed to the ground. She no longer had the energy to remain on her feet. Her body was taxed over it limits, her raspberry locks were burnt in places from Raidon's attacks.
"Akiko."
In hearing someone say her name, Akiko weakly looked up to see Kurama looking down at her in concern.
"Here I was trying to finish my battle so I could get to you, and in the end I'm the one who needed the help."
Kurama watched as Akiko's eyes slid closed as her breathing evened out.
"That's where you would be wrong. You were the reason I got here when I did. So in the end didn't we both help each other?"
TBC
(A/N: Thanks to everyone who took the time to review this story. Your reviews really do mean a lot to me.
The beginning of the next chapter will go into more of what happened to Raidon when Akiko's attack hit him head on. Yusuke and the others arrive on the scene only to find that there are too late much to Hiei's disappointment.
Ja ne!
Tainted InuShemeeko)
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