10 Years of Waiting
by Kurohi Tatsaki
Day 10b - Threatened
Disclaimer: I don't own YYH, & never will. Kurohi & Yamiryuinu, Shirokoori, and all the other original characters I and Kohaku Frost come up with are property of Beware of Mage & Tsuki Ryu Productions.
"speaking" thinking noise POV change beginning/ending of dreams flashback beginning/endings /Telepathic speech/ passing of time /strange voice/ dream playback
Whoo! I was on a roll!
"Have fun with your dick, Botan-kun!" Angel
The explosion came again, closer to him as he honed in on the sound. He grunted slightly as he picked up his pace.
Suddenly, the explosions ended, leaving him in a clearing. Trees surrounded him from a distance, as the void of those giants was very wide and noticable. He looked around, the sun still setting, and finally settling to sleep.
"Master had been wondering when you'd get here!" cried a sweet, slightly deep voice. Kurohi let his gaze shoot upward.
It was a one-eyed dragon with many feathers. It had and elegant face, and its head didn't seem quite proportional to its body. Its wings were tremendous in length and size. Its body was slender, and it held a large shield, white with blue and red, called the Shaman, and a long spear clutched in the left claw. The Battle Spear.
"A Dragon Clone!"
"Aaah, so you remember us! Come! My Master awaits!" It smiled with its 'beak'. At this time, a child would run crying for mommy.
"I'm going nowhere!"
"You come or else-"
"Or else, what?" asked a third voice. Kurohi snapped his head around.
"Hiei-sama!" A grin appeared on the boy's face.
"Baka! Keep your eye on your opponent!"
The grin fell, and he did as told.
"Mmm... 'opponent'... 'dragon clone'... I have a name, you asses! It's TAKA! Kurohi! Come with me at once unless you'd rather have everyone else suffer the consequences!"
He blinked. "N-nanda do! You CHEAPSKATE! Leave my friends outta this! This's between you an' me, DRAGON!"
He speaks to the dragon as if master, and he has the right to, anyway, mused Hiei. After all, being the only male Tsuki Ryu, he has the power to control dragons like this, the one that he owns, and the one he can become. That would make that figure in his dream... the only Ryu Youkai! "Taka, was it?"
"Yes!" replied the one-eyed dragon.
"He'll go. Just let him bring a few friends, and he'll go."
"Fine, but I'll haunt you if my Master kills me!" With three powerful thrusts of its wings, Taka took off in a fine line of flames.
"Dragon..." he murmured. His eyes took on a dazed glow. But, Ryu Youkai are supposed to own one... why do I become one...? "Hiei-sama, arigatou... I think I should return to Koenma-chan... I should report this. Go ahead and tell the others if you like."
Hiei just stood there a distance behind him a moment longer as Kurohi flitted off to see Koenma.
Speaking of reporting, I guess it'd be nice of me to tell Kurama. In a blur, he, too, left. He swiftly came upon the Minamino-Hatanaka Residence. He perched on his familiar branch and stepped through the open window.
So, he DID keep his promise. He left the window open.
"I knew I sensed you coming here. Why the frown, Hiei?"
He looked at the fox who had settled himself in the shadows of his own room.
"We're going to have problems. We got a visit from a 'Dragon Clone' named Taka. Her request was that Kurohi go with her to her master... unless he wanted any of us to become injured or worse."
"Seems like another case, only Koenma doesn't seem to know about it. I assume Kurohi has already long-since left to go back to Reikai?"
Hiei nodded, the frown still lingering. He unbound his hair and threw the ward somewhere in the room. He pulled off his black boots and removed his cloak, grasping it on an opening somewhere and whisking it off effortlessly. The snow-white bandanna had come off that same instant. He wore a black tank top underneath it and wore two of his four white belts.
"We had better get rest right now while we can. I am assuming we will have a tough job on our hands."
"Ah, advice from my favorite Jaganshi. Well, I am a little tired, but would you like something to eat?"
Hiei's stomach gurgled. The redhead chuckled softly in his alto voice and grasped Hiei's warded hand. He tugged him downstairs to the kitchen and began to prepare the meal.
The fire demon had wrapped his arms atop the fox's shoulders, and was nuzzling his neck affectionately.
The emerald-eyed beauty giggled. "Now who's the animal?"
"Don't ask."
"I just did."
"Mmm... and I'm telling you not to."
"Too late. I already did."
"And to answer that, I guess we both are."
A pause.
"But you more than me, Fox."
Kurama licked the wing of Hiei's nose in reply, making his red eyes cross for a second. He frowned cutely. "Whad'ja do that for?"
"That comment. Oh! Ramen's done!"
"Good! I'm starving."
"You're always hungry."
"I digest quickly with all that running I do. I have a right to eat a lot."
"Uh-huh..." replied the fox. "Anyway, some of this is for me, so don't complain."
"Okay."
Stupid Angel! "ANGEL! Why the hell did you do THIS to me!"
The woman in question chuckled. "Just for fun. I needed some entertainment."
"But you didn't have to turn me into a... a..."
"A man, Botan. A man."
"I was GETTING TO THAT!" The blue-haired, pink-eyed she-he tried to calm himself down (A/N: I'm just going to refer to Botan as a 'he'). "Anyway," he continued in his alluring voice. "You'd better change me back."
"I can't. I dropped the book in the fire, remember?"
"Yeah..."
"Not only that, the fire went out, so... you're stuck like that until I can find the cure. Had the fire stayed lit, all I would have to have had to do was recite the incantation that would change you back. Too bad."
"What! 'Too bad'! Is that all you can say! 'Too bad'! This is a crisis! I'm a HE! I SHOULD BE A SHE!"
The woman turned around. "Have fun with your dick, Botan-kun!"
Botan fumed and got onto his oar. "Damn her..." He found himself aroused by her beauty, and cursed once more.
Great. On one hand, he wanted to be female again. On the other, he wanted to stay as a male because then he might have a chance to be Angel's koibito.
Damn that Tsuki Ryu!
"Koenma-chan! I'm back!"
No answer, not even the stamping was heard. Kurohi's stomach dropped at the lack of sound. 'Heheheheheh... maybe he's asleep!' he tried to convince himself. He entered the office. It was crowded with ogres.
"What the hell's goin' on here!"
"K-Koenma-sama... Koenma-sama ga..." stammered the blue ogre, George.
"Koenma-chan ga...?" he mirrored. He wanted an answer. 'Koenma-chan is...?'
"Koenma-sama... was kidnapped."
Kurohi blinked, eyes wide. "Na... na... na...
"...
"...
"...
"NANDA DO---!"
End Day 10
R&R!
Yes, I know, I'm evil. Don't any of you worry. I won't have anything too horrible happen to Koenma. I like him too much.
Started 4/12/03, 9:44AM; Finished 4/12/03, 1:48PM
Revisions: 10/12/03