10 Years of Waiting
by Kurohi Tatsaki
Day 4 - Who's How Old, & Enemy's Plan
Disclaimer: I don't own YYH, never will, but I own Kurohi, as y'all should know by now.
"speaking" [thinking] {noise} ~~~~~~ POV change ****** beginning/ending of dreams ********* flashback beginning/endings //Telepathic speech// *** passing of time /strange voice/
Scarby - I'm using the name you suggested! It actually seems like it would work out! No offense to anyone else...
Gabbi and Demon Dog - I am also a great fan of dragons! I own the game (which got 2/5 disk ratings...) "Dragon Seeds", and those who know about this game might find a certain bird-like dragon near the end of this chapter veeeerrrry familiar!
My muse was cooperating! Ha ha!!
Muse: ^_^ *ears twitch*
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"That will teach those lying, incompetent bastards to mess with me!" Mean One of Dreams
When the night skies open
The bright stars twinkle
I've been living in the dark
Like a piercing dream in my mind
----------I shall not forget.
You, by whom this closed heart has been opened
A Goodbye Is the Beginning of Tomorrow, Kurama
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"Yowaihaiiro? Yowaihaiiro! What's going on? Tell me! Where am I?!"
/I... I can't stop this from happening here. You're... going to have to watch this, child. Truth must speak at some point.../
"Watch?! Watch what?!" I snapped. I heard something in the background, but it was all funny-sounding, y'know how you can hear more than one voice at one time? Well, add some static, then add a few of those voice-morpher thingies. Yeah, that's what all the talking sounds like to me right now.
/I stand corrected. Listen. Don't you hear them?/
"Hear what?!!"
/Shh.../
"~... seems to be surviving...~"
"~I just don't understand! Why do such to this child?! He never did anything to you!~" pleaded a kinder voice than the first. Both voices were male.
"~You forget... that this child is an 'it'. It has no significance other than this project! You're a fool to think otherwise!!~"
I heard a stirring sound from beside me, and when I looked, I was treated to a foggy image of gray. All three people were faceless. I knew the two standing were the ones talking. And then...
A child in a chamber full of some liquid. What were they doing to him? So many wires... so many tubes...
I shivered and closed my eyes, but the image before me was shown even more clearly behind my eyelids. I realized my eyes wouldn't open. I had to see!
"~But... he's still a child! You're crazy to start the project now! And besides that, aren't you a part of his race?!!~" He had gray hair and green eyes. He wore large spectacles on his face. He was near the mean man, who was eyeing a chamber.
"~You are forgetting that I found it in a hundred-thousand-year-old rock! It has astounding preservation skills! I, however, did not have to do that! *I* lasted through the ice-age without being trapped! It is much younger than I! Why would I experiment on myself?!~" This one had black hair, gold eyes, and dragon horns. He was winged, and a long tail came from out from under his white lab coat.
A Ryu Youkai... *I* thought *I* was the last...
"~Hush! You're waking him up!~"
I managed to discern two blue eyes open from inside the chamber of liquid.
Blue eyes?
Who is he?
"~Uu..ugh... Where... wha...~" his mumbling paused, and the orbs glared at a thin man in a white coat. His small fists started to pound against the confinements. "~Who are you?! What am I doing here?! Let me OUT, DAMN YOU!!~"
"~He has quite the temper, doesn't he? Rather interesting that I picked up a few DNA samples from a group of demons recently. Very fortunate that I had access to the Reikai back then - eight years ago.~"
"~What kind of samples?~" asked the kind voice in concern.
"~Two demons. One is a fire demon and Koorime crossbreed, very interesting for that one. The other... a silver Youko with human form as a base. I wonder what would happen if I infused-~"
"~Shut up with yer mumbo-jumbo! Shut up! Shut up!! SHUT UP OR I'LL KILL YOU, DAMN IT!!! I'LL KILL YOU, YOU BASTARD!!! SHUT UP, *SHUT UP, SHUT UP!!!!!*~"
I was abruptly cut off. By what, I don't know.
"That... that voice..." I looked up at my dragon, knowing full well that fear was written in my words and my eyes. "Was that... it *can't* be... was that... how could it be..." I stammered. "It simply... isn't..."
/Yes. That voice, was yours. You were the-/
"It can't be!" I pressed my hands against my ears and shook my head. "No, no, no, no, NO! I'm only seventeen! I'm only SEVENTEEN!! How could I be so old?! I simply CAN'T be that old! God damn it!!!!"
She smiled a little. "Because you're an ancient race that I knew nothing of until our fusion. You're now a Dragon Youkai because of me. We dragons can live for millennia. But, on some occasions, your race lives forever!'
"WHY DIDN'T YOU EVER TELL ME?!!" I shouted. I looked up at my gray dragon, stood up, and declared, "HERE I WAS, PINING BECAUSE I COULD NEVER LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO BE WITH KOENMA-SAMA, AND YOU *NOW* TELL ME I COULD LIVE WITH HIM FOR ETERNITY?!" My throat hurt. My mind hurt...
And now I was crying again. Tears of anger, tears of anguish, but mostly, anger.
Needless to say, I was pissed just as I had in that "memory."
I then felt a wind pull me out of my dream. When I opened my eyes, I saw several Hirui-seki stones near my feet. I gathered those in one hand, and shoved them into the pocket of my lent garment. I flitted back to the Hatanaka and Minamino residence, and rested on a worn tree branch that extended to the windowpane. I tapped gently on the glass, and the youko lifted it open for me to enter. It was afternoon, after all. I stepped in with uncertain steps, slightly woozy from the sleepless night.
"Are you all right? You don't look so good."
"I'm fine, really, Kurama," I reply softly, then I place my hands in an odd gesture - clasped before my belly. "Um, I hate to sound needy, but are my clothes done? I don't feel comfortable keeping your clothes."
He nods once. "Yes, here you are." I take my clothes from that pretty fox. "Once Hiei is done, you may change in there."
I nod once and sit down on the bed. I frown slightly. So... several years ago, I was a lab experiment...
I had lived a long, long time and survived to this time. Yowaihaiiro said it was because of her that I managed to last as long as I did.
And now I might be able to last for eternity?
Like Koenma... Hey! I dropped the 'sama' part!
"Kurohi?"
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" I jumped into the air at the call of my name. I laughed when I saw Hiei right next to me and babbled, "Hi~ei-sa~ma~~~! Don't *DO~* that!!"
Hiei and Kurama laughed at my expense. Huffily, but still chuckling, I entered the bathroom and slammed the door behind me, locking it right after. I shed all my garments and was about to put on my pants when I saw the mirror.
My image blinked back at me as I did, and I turned around to see the tattoo. I really hadn't had a good chance to look at it since I got it.
Well, the head was lost at my chest, according to the image in the mirror, and all I could see on my back was its body and the wings that were near my right shoulder blade. The rest was all tail and energy bits. Nothin' too fancy.
In reality, it was just a big dragon with a baby-face.
I then looked at the rest of my body. I was a slender, but compact build; an odd mix of, what it seemed, Hiei and Kurama. I flexed my arm, and, sure enough, the muscle contracted just like Hiei's. I blink once at my finding.
Okay, I was officially weirded out!
I pulled on my pants, followed by my boots and pulled on my blue button- down, gray dragon dark blue shirt. Remembering the other stones I had placed in the borrowed pants' pocket, I removed them and placed them in my own jeans ones. Then I exited.
"Took you long enough, Kurohi," Hiei clipped. "So, what do you need to report?"
"Yowaihaiiro, the dragon of dreams that resides as a mark on my back, is on our side, and there's something else... I don't know who he is, but he was the one that made that nightmare Kurama had so twisted." I paused. "Apparently, Yowaihaiiro wanted to tell Kurama something, but the cloaked man who has gold eyes fiddled with it. And, something I've seen..." I paused, uncertain how to word all this that I discovered just by one dream. "Well, Yowaihaiiro? She couldn't stop me from seeing something she had been trying to hide from me... A part of my past, actually."
Slowly, the dream began to fade.
"Shit... The details... Over a hundred-thousand years old...?" My gaze went to the ground. "Two people and DNA samples... Two demons... A specimen... A project... What were they, damn it?!" I felt anger brewing inside me, and the rest of the dream vanished. "I'm... I'm sorry..." I looked up. "For a while there, I knew more about myself, but now I'm left with more questions... DAMN IT!!" [I... I can't remember!! It's like I never had that dream at all!]
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/That was a close call. He is a bit more intelligent than I gave him credit./
A dark hood was pulled off an innocent face that held slanted, almond- shaped eyes. Long lashes hooded the eyes until the dark gold irises were shown. He shook his hair free of the hood, revealing dark brown locks of spiky hair. He looked around his chamber and slipped out and into the garden outside.
He made a shrill whistle, and a large, one-red-eyed, blue bird that held a small sword and shield flew in.
"Taka?"
"Yeah?" piped the newborn dragon.
Producing a small envelope, he handed it over. "Deliver this to Ryu Youkai Mikado Teupo-sama." He smirked. "Tell him it's from Ryu Youkai Oji Shirokoori-sama."
"Yes Sir!" the Winged Saurian piped before taking the letter in its beak, lined with small, sharp fangs, and flying off into the sun, still clutching its weapons in its claws.
"That will teach those lying, incompetent bastards to mess with me! Once I obtain the Shihono'o, those bakayaro will know never to mess with me!" He laughed some and folded his arms across his chest.
"...And the boy... He was so close to the truth I could feel my revenge AND position of power slipping away. As long as the boy cannot figure out how to live forever, my rank will be undamaged. Fortunately, his time is running short; this depression is making his death all the more sooner!! Oh, Kami, this is soooo good!" He chuckled again, and went back inside
From the shadows, a horned, winged and tailed boy watched, violet eyes dim in the darkness. They narrowed, and the figure slunk out of sight, a sword banging gently against his back.
[Father will not be pleased. I wonder what's in his letter?]
End Day 4
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Ryu = Dragon
Youkai = Demon
Mikado = Emperor
Taka = Hawk
Oji = Prince
Shiro = White
Koori = Ice
Shi = Death
Hono'o = Flame
Bakayaro = [You] Jerk!/Stupid bastard!/You bastard!
Ooh! Who's that figure? I know who he is, but I bet you don't! One last character or so of my making! He's got a nice name, too!
Shirokoori: Hey! You made me be a bad guy!!
KT: -_- Don't forget, in this realm, you're NOT Kurohi's aibou.
Shirokoori: Damn!
???: So, am I good guy or bad?
KT: You're the second-in-command of Ryu Youkai Mikado Teupo; most likely, a good guy.
???: Yay! I'm a good guy for the second time since you created me! Yay! ^_^
KT: Don't forget, that's not how you might act during the later situation.
???: o_o *weak voice* Later situation?
KT: Hehehe.
???: OoO'''' *screams like a girl* AAAAAAAAAAAHHH---*gasp*HHHHHHHHHH-------- --------!!!! *faint, thud*
KT: -_o Don't worry. This will be only the first time he has gone before a larger audience than a teacher. After all, he did come from one of my original myths, but I have not posted any of them anywhere. (I want it more in-depth than 4 pages normally typed with only tabs)
Oh, and to explain something: Dragon Youkai (I don't think there actually are any in the series) in this fic, at least, Dragon (Ryu) Youkai are nonexistent unless they have the mark (Gray Dragon tattoo on any part of their body. [Kurohi's goes from one shoulder to the other and across his back, as you might already know] Hiei doesn't count because his is a black dragon)
Sorry this isn't much Kurama/Hiei; I needed to do this to advance the plot.
Started 3/25/03, 3:50PM; Finished 3/25/03, 9:11PM
Revisions: 10/11/03, 6/2/03
by Kurohi Tatsaki
Day 4 - Who's How Old, & Enemy's Plan
Disclaimer: I don't own YYH, never will, but I own Kurohi, as y'all should know by now.
"speaking" [thinking] {noise} ~~~~~~ POV change ****** beginning/ending of dreams ********* flashback beginning/endings //Telepathic speech// *** passing of time /strange voice/
Scarby - I'm using the name you suggested! It actually seems like it would work out! No offense to anyone else...
Gabbi and Demon Dog - I am also a great fan of dragons! I own the game (which got 2/5 disk ratings...) "Dragon Seeds", and those who know about this game might find a certain bird-like dragon near the end of this chapter veeeerrrry familiar!
My muse was cooperating! Ha ha!!
Muse: ^_^ *ears twitch*
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"That will teach those lying, incompetent bastards to mess with me!" Mean One of Dreams
When the night skies open
The bright stars twinkle
I've been living in the dark
Like a piercing dream in my mind
----------I shall not forget.
You, by whom this closed heart has been opened
A Goodbye Is the Beginning of Tomorrow, Kurama
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"Yowaihaiiro? Yowaihaiiro! What's going on? Tell me! Where am I?!"
/I... I can't stop this from happening here. You're... going to have to watch this, child. Truth must speak at some point.../
"Watch?! Watch what?!" I snapped. I heard something in the background, but it was all funny-sounding, y'know how you can hear more than one voice at one time? Well, add some static, then add a few of those voice-morpher thingies. Yeah, that's what all the talking sounds like to me right now.
/I stand corrected. Listen. Don't you hear them?/
"Hear what?!!"
/Shh.../
"~... seems to be surviving...~"
"~I just don't understand! Why do such to this child?! He never did anything to you!~" pleaded a kinder voice than the first. Both voices were male.
"~You forget... that this child is an 'it'. It has no significance other than this project! You're a fool to think otherwise!!~"
I heard a stirring sound from beside me, and when I looked, I was treated to a foggy image of gray. All three people were faceless. I knew the two standing were the ones talking. And then...
A child in a chamber full of some liquid. What were they doing to him? So many wires... so many tubes...
I shivered and closed my eyes, but the image before me was shown even more clearly behind my eyelids. I realized my eyes wouldn't open. I had to see!
"~But... he's still a child! You're crazy to start the project now! And besides that, aren't you a part of his race?!!~" He had gray hair and green eyes. He wore large spectacles on his face. He was near the mean man, who was eyeing a chamber.
"~You are forgetting that I found it in a hundred-thousand-year-old rock! It has astounding preservation skills! I, however, did not have to do that! *I* lasted through the ice-age without being trapped! It is much younger than I! Why would I experiment on myself?!~" This one had black hair, gold eyes, and dragon horns. He was winged, and a long tail came from out from under his white lab coat.
A Ryu Youkai... *I* thought *I* was the last...
"~Hush! You're waking him up!~"
I managed to discern two blue eyes open from inside the chamber of liquid.
Blue eyes?
Who is he?
"~Uu..ugh... Where... wha...~" his mumbling paused, and the orbs glared at a thin man in a white coat. His small fists started to pound against the confinements. "~Who are you?! What am I doing here?! Let me OUT, DAMN YOU!!~"
"~He has quite the temper, doesn't he? Rather interesting that I picked up a few DNA samples from a group of demons recently. Very fortunate that I had access to the Reikai back then - eight years ago.~"
"~What kind of samples?~" asked the kind voice in concern.
"~Two demons. One is a fire demon and Koorime crossbreed, very interesting for that one. The other... a silver Youko with human form as a base. I wonder what would happen if I infused-~"
"~Shut up with yer mumbo-jumbo! Shut up! Shut up!! SHUT UP OR I'LL KILL YOU, DAMN IT!!! I'LL KILL YOU, YOU BASTARD!!! SHUT UP, *SHUT UP, SHUT UP!!!!!*~"
I was abruptly cut off. By what, I don't know.
"That... that voice..." I looked up at my dragon, knowing full well that fear was written in my words and my eyes. "Was that... it *can't* be... was that... how could it be..." I stammered. "It simply... isn't..."
/Yes. That voice, was yours. You were the-/
"It can't be!" I pressed my hands against my ears and shook my head. "No, no, no, no, NO! I'm only seventeen! I'm only SEVENTEEN!! How could I be so old?! I simply CAN'T be that old! God damn it!!!!"
She smiled a little. "Because you're an ancient race that I knew nothing of until our fusion. You're now a Dragon Youkai because of me. We dragons can live for millennia. But, on some occasions, your race lives forever!'
"WHY DIDN'T YOU EVER TELL ME?!!" I shouted. I looked up at my gray dragon, stood up, and declared, "HERE I WAS, PINING BECAUSE I COULD NEVER LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO BE WITH KOENMA-SAMA, AND YOU *NOW* TELL ME I COULD LIVE WITH HIM FOR ETERNITY?!" My throat hurt. My mind hurt...
And now I was crying again. Tears of anger, tears of anguish, but mostly, anger.
Needless to say, I was pissed just as I had in that "memory."
I then felt a wind pull me out of my dream. When I opened my eyes, I saw several Hirui-seki stones near my feet. I gathered those in one hand, and shoved them into the pocket of my lent garment. I flitted back to the Hatanaka and Minamino residence, and rested on a worn tree branch that extended to the windowpane. I tapped gently on the glass, and the youko lifted it open for me to enter. It was afternoon, after all. I stepped in with uncertain steps, slightly woozy from the sleepless night.
"Are you all right? You don't look so good."
"I'm fine, really, Kurama," I reply softly, then I place my hands in an odd gesture - clasped before my belly. "Um, I hate to sound needy, but are my clothes done? I don't feel comfortable keeping your clothes."
He nods once. "Yes, here you are." I take my clothes from that pretty fox. "Once Hiei is done, you may change in there."
I nod once and sit down on the bed. I frown slightly. So... several years ago, I was a lab experiment...
I had lived a long, long time and survived to this time. Yowaihaiiro said it was because of her that I managed to last as long as I did.
And now I might be able to last for eternity?
Like Koenma... Hey! I dropped the 'sama' part!
"Kurohi?"
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" I jumped into the air at the call of my name. I laughed when I saw Hiei right next to me and babbled, "Hi~ei-sa~ma~~~! Don't *DO~* that!!"
Hiei and Kurama laughed at my expense. Huffily, but still chuckling, I entered the bathroom and slammed the door behind me, locking it right after. I shed all my garments and was about to put on my pants when I saw the mirror.
My image blinked back at me as I did, and I turned around to see the tattoo. I really hadn't had a good chance to look at it since I got it.
Well, the head was lost at my chest, according to the image in the mirror, and all I could see on my back was its body and the wings that were near my right shoulder blade. The rest was all tail and energy bits. Nothin' too fancy.
In reality, it was just a big dragon with a baby-face.
I then looked at the rest of my body. I was a slender, but compact build; an odd mix of, what it seemed, Hiei and Kurama. I flexed my arm, and, sure enough, the muscle contracted just like Hiei's. I blink once at my finding.
Okay, I was officially weirded out!
I pulled on my pants, followed by my boots and pulled on my blue button- down, gray dragon dark blue shirt. Remembering the other stones I had placed in the borrowed pants' pocket, I removed them and placed them in my own jeans ones. Then I exited.
"Took you long enough, Kurohi," Hiei clipped. "So, what do you need to report?"
"Yowaihaiiro, the dragon of dreams that resides as a mark on my back, is on our side, and there's something else... I don't know who he is, but he was the one that made that nightmare Kurama had so twisted." I paused. "Apparently, Yowaihaiiro wanted to tell Kurama something, but the cloaked man who has gold eyes fiddled with it. And, something I've seen..." I paused, uncertain how to word all this that I discovered just by one dream. "Well, Yowaihaiiro? She couldn't stop me from seeing something she had been trying to hide from me... A part of my past, actually."
Slowly, the dream began to fade.
"Shit... The details... Over a hundred-thousand years old...?" My gaze went to the ground. "Two people and DNA samples... Two demons... A specimen... A project... What were they, damn it?!" I felt anger brewing inside me, and the rest of the dream vanished. "I'm... I'm sorry..." I looked up. "For a while there, I knew more about myself, but now I'm left with more questions... DAMN IT!!" [I... I can't remember!! It's like I never had that dream at all!]
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/That was a close call. He is a bit more intelligent than I gave him credit./
A dark hood was pulled off an innocent face that held slanted, almond- shaped eyes. Long lashes hooded the eyes until the dark gold irises were shown. He shook his hair free of the hood, revealing dark brown locks of spiky hair. He looked around his chamber and slipped out and into the garden outside.
He made a shrill whistle, and a large, one-red-eyed, blue bird that held a small sword and shield flew in.
"Taka?"
"Yeah?" piped the newborn dragon.
Producing a small envelope, he handed it over. "Deliver this to Ryu Youkai Mikado Teupo-sama." He smirked. "Tell him it's from Ryu Youkai Oji Shirokoori-sama."
"Yes Sir!" the Winged Saurian piped before taking the letter in its beak, lined with small, sharp fangs, and flying off into the sun, still clutching its weapons in its claws.
"That will teach those lying, incompetent bastards to mess with me! Once I obtain the Shihono'o, those bakayaro will know never to mess with me!" He laughed some and folded his arms across his chest.
"...And the boy... He was so close to the truth I could feel my revenge AND position of power slipping away. As long as the boy cannot figure out how to live forever, my rank will be undamaged. Fortunately, his time is running short; this depression is making his death all the more sooner!! Oh, Kami, this is soooo good!" He chuckled again, and went back inside
From the shadows, a horned, winged and tailed boy watched, violet eyes dim in the darkness. They narrowed, and the figure slunk out of sight, a sword banging gently against his back.
[Father will not be pleased. I wonder what's in his letter?]
End Day 4
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Ryu = Dragon
Youkai = Demon
Mikado = Emperor
Taka = Hawk
Oji = Prince
Shiro = White
Koori = Ice
Shi = Death
Hono'o = Flame
Bakayaro = [You] Jerk!/Stupid bastard!/You bastard!
Ooh! Who's that figure? I know who he is, but I bet you don't! One last character or so of my making! He's got a nice name, too!
Shirokoori: Hey! You made me be a bad guy!!
KT: -_- Don't forget, in this realm, you're NOT Kurohi's aibou.
Shirokoori: Damn!
???: So, am I good guy or bad?
KT: You're the second-in-command of Ryu Youkai Mikado Teupo; most likely, a good guy.
???: Yay! I'm a good guy for the second time since you created me! Yay! ^_^
KT: Don't forget, that's not how you might act during the later situation.
???: o_o *weak voice* Later situation?
KT: Hehehe.
???: OoO'''' *screams like a girl* AAAAAAAAAAAHHH---*gasp*HHHHHHHHHH-------- --------!!!! *faint, thud*
KT: -_o Don't worry. This will be only the first time he has gone before a larger audience than a teacher. After all, he did come from one of my original myths, but I have not posted any of them anywhere. (I want it more in-depth than 4 pages normally typed with only tabs)
Oh, and to explain something: Dragon Youkai (I don't think there actually are any in the series) in this fic, at least, Dragon (Ryu) Youkai are nonexistent unless they have the mark (Gray Dragon tattoo on any part of their body. [Kurohi's goes from one shoulder to the other and across his back, as you might already know] Hiei doesn't count because his is a black dragon)
Sorry this isn't much Kurama/Hiei; I needed to do this to advance the plot.
Started 3/25/03, 3:50PM; Finished 3/25/03, 9:11PM
Revisions: 10/11/03, 6/2/03