Silverwing013: Sorry for the lack of updates on my chappies, but I got busy with my typing of the story I'm planning on sending to publishers. The story with my own made up characters.
And this should be a long chappie too, because I stuck what would have been two chappies together so it would make better sense (hopefully). There will be a slight intermission at the spot where I would have ended it. So if ya feel the need to have a potty break or a drink to make it seem like the two chappies it would have been…go ahead.
I also have to announce that I will be ending this in about one or two chappies because this story is flowing into my Forbidden Trilogy. So Mikko's story will be starting to be posted as soon as I finish if ya all want to read the whole thing. This will be left in a slight cliffhanger into The Forbidden Past (part 2 of my story) and the last thing I shall ever post on this will be info on when this part shows up in that story. Which will be a while; seeing as I need to post all the chappies of The Forbidden Hunters (part 1) and then this will show up halfway through the second part.
Sorry for my long typing here but it seemed necessary to tell my reviewers this.
Mikko: YES! FINALLY! –the wind blows behind her for dramatic issues-
Silverwing013-chuckles at her behavior- Yes well, here is the part for my reviewers. Thank you all for waiting for the update! Once again, sorry it took so long!
Animefouryou- once again to awesome girl. I added more, but I guess I didn't hurry in the public eyes.
hiei-sister- thanks for the great story comment. I try to type to the characters, harder than it looks….your question of where they are, is answered in here. Won't say more to ya!
hyperaquafairy- I'm glad u like! I'm also glad ur honest but…WHY IN THE THREE WORLDS WOULD I KILL OFF KUWABARA! Sorry for yelling but he's like my fav character. Although I did type something near the end u might like if you want him to die. Your song is coming up, I'll send u the chappie with it to see if the way I used it is a-o-k. Once again, sorry I didn't update that soon.
Danieru Lee- um yeah. What can I say to those of you whom don't understand her review? This is my crazy friend Dani. I really must advise any of you who like my work to check out her's. By Blood is most popular of hers and it has more reviews than mine. –pouts- but it's an inuyasha one.
Kuwabara99- thanks! glad to see another one big on Kuwabara and Yukina's relationship! Kuwabara…normal? I like Kuwabara as he is…jk here. Read ahead to find your answer if he gets back to normal!
Silverwing013: Gawd, I hate this part. The cast of Yu Yu Hakusho does not belong to me and these events are not part of the show. This is all a story that came from my mind. Nekoyami is of my own creation…among others….Now read!
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With small nods at each other, both Hiei and Kurama charged forward at Nekoyami. Hiei pulled out his sword with the uninjured hand, taking a swing for his head. The swing wasn't nearly as flawless as it would have been with his usual sword hand. Kurama slashed his rose whip in the direction Nekoyami went to avoid Hiei's sword. The smallest of cuts formed upon Kuwabara's school uniform that Nekoyami was wearing still. Barely noticeable to anyone just taking a glance, but this small progress egged Kurama and Hiei to continue attacking.
'Look how easily they are fooled.' Nekoyami smirked.
Kurama slashed for Nekoyami's left shoulder, while Hiei swung with his sword again. Even though his aim was not perfect, another mark showed up on the green uniform. In fact there was a small amount of blood. Something itched in the back of Kurama's head that this wasn't right and it bugged him till he figured it out.
'What are you planning to do to them?' Kuwabara asked frantically.Another attack proved to be successful with Kurama's rose whip forming a small slash of red on Nekoyami's chest. He noticed Nekoyami was still smiling cruelly up at him. Kurama observed his next movements carefully.
'Planning? Why whatever to you mean?' Nekoyami said with feigned innocence.Slashing down upon Nekoyami, Kurama missed but Hiei took up his slack and another red mark formed on Nekoyami's forearm. Kurama's eyes widened slightly. Nekoyami could have avoided that without a mark, he thought. But why would he let it…. Kurama understood the answer before he finished.
'What are you going to do with them!' Kuwabara asked even more frantically."Hiei! He's toying with us!" The red head shouted to the shorter demon as Hiei swung at the cat demon again. Kurama slashed forward to prove his point. Nekoyami grinned at Kurama and avoided the sword and rose whip easily by nearly a whole foot each, much more room than he had avoided the others.
Hiei swung his sword once again and found it was avoided without difficulty by the tall cat demon. "Damn," he cursed silently under his breath.
"You are getting slow Yoko," Nekoyami stated. "Is it from that human body or is it from quietly spending your time among the humans?"
Kurama glared at Nekoyami. The glare was stopped short as Kurama found himself helpless the next second. He glanced down, spotting the ground below him and several spirit swords circled around the tree and him, keeping him to the spot he was in. Quickly forming a plan, Kurama placed it into action as Nekoyami gloated upon how slow Kurama was.
"Even your keen eyes, Yoko, have failed you," Nekoyami turned around, stopping a blow from Hiei's sword with his claws with no problem. "And what were you going to Hiei?"
Hiei glared and struck at Nekoyami again. Yukina, who had remained by the sidelines, watching, rushed up in between the two.
"Yukina," Hiei breathed. What was his sister doing?
"Please don't fight…Kazuma," Yukina asked pleading.
Surprisingly Nekoyami lowered his claws. Hiei starred at him in shock and then back to Yukina.
'Yukina…'
'No more Yusuke, Hiei I have plans for, and soon enough, no more love power crap.'
'No! Yukina!'
'Shut up you! I could mate to her though…' Nekoyami snickered. 'Cause some more pain for Hiei.'
'WHAT!'
"I was wondering," Nekoyami started speaking. Hiei looked curiously at the cat demon, on edge to what Nekoyami was planning now. Yukina looked up as well.
'Nekoyami-' Kuwabara tried interrupting him but got shut out again.
"Would you be my mate?" Nekoyami finished.
For one of the few times in his life, Hiei wanted to face drop. "You…you…" (A/N: just wondering…can anyone see a hyperventilating Hiei?)
Kurama looked up from his work in progress to get out to look up at Nekoyami startled. Had some of Kuwabara's feelings worked his way through? He had claimed he hated all those feelings before. Was this part of it?
Yukina looked startled on the question. "Ma…mate? You are the one who has kept my brother away and you ask me to be your mate?"
"Nekoyami, get away from her," Hiei growled.
"How does this concern you Hiei?" Nekoyami said. "Or do you have feelings for this ice maiden?"
Hiei glared viciously, gritting his teeth. She's my sister and you know it Nekoyami, he thought angrily. Nekoyami's tail (A/N: didn't you guys forget he had a tailI never really mentioned it except when he transformed) curled around Yukina's waist possessively. Hiei growled at this action from Nekoyami.
"DON'T TOUCH HER!"
Hiei swung his sword down at Nekoyami's head, hard with his good and mangled hands wrapped around the sword handle. Nekoyami turned to face Hiei, blocking the blow with one clawed hand. With a swipe from his other cat clawed hand, Nekoyami sent a devastating blow to Hiei's chest.
'No! Shrimpy!' Kuwabara managed to get through.
Hiei flew backwards from the blow. Kurama gasped from the tree trunk he was, for the moment, trapped on. "Hiei!"
Yukina stared amazed at Hiei flying backward. He wasn't the most sociable person, but yet he had tried to protect her. "Hiei!"
Hiei landed on the back of his head with a bounce, landed on his back, skidding across the grass and dirt. With a groan, Hiei sat himself up with difficulty, wanting to clutch his chest, but refused to show a sign a weakness. There were four great slashing marks torn across the front of Hiei's black cloak and even though the cloak was black, the blood was seen, seeping through easily.
"Hiei," Kurama breathed. He was starting to feel some strain on the spirit swords around him, if only he could get out faster.
Nekoyami turned back toward Yukina as if it had never happened. "You will be my mate," it came out as command from his mouth.
"I won't! Who is my brother!" Yukina shouted out the question she had wanted to ask from the beginning, desperately trying to get out off his tail's grip on her.
I am,
Hiei thought, pulling himself to an upright standing position with his sword's help, the tip of the sword dug into the earth from his weight.
"You will," Nekoyami stated, pulling her closer.
"NO!"
Nekoyami growled at her, his red eyes flashing. An angry swipe came down upon Yukina. Wincing in pain, Yukina looked down at the four deep marks on her shoulder. No tears came from her though, thanks to her time being a prisoner in the clutches of the greedy human and before Kazuma and Yusuke rescued her. "You will," he growled down at the ice maiden.
"GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HER!" Hiei's sword flashed down between the two, causing Nekoyami to release Yukina from his tail's grasp.
Breathing heavily, blood seeped dangerously from Hiei's chest wounds as he stood panting protectively in front of Yukina, sword pointed straight at Nekoyami with both hands. Kurama watched on in fear. If this kept up, Hiei wouldn't last any longer. And on smaller note, his brotherhood to Yukina was becoming more and more painfully evident as he continued protecting her. Come on, Kurama thought hurriedly. His plan on getting off of this tree was slowly working without Nekoyami noticing.
"You know," Nekoyami glared wickedly at the fire demon, "I can't stand you barging in all the time. In fact, I just can't stand you. I've been waiting a long time to do this to you."
Nekoyami rushed up to Hiei and pushed onto the ground with one hand. Using his sword to desperately keep himself up, Hiei failed and feel forcefully on his butt with a thump. Before he could stand up, Nekoyami pushed Hiei's already battered chest so that the fire demon fell completely onto the ground. Placing a hand above Hiei's chest, Nekoyami grinned heartlessly.
"I would have bound you, but this makes it more frustrating for you if your not trapped on the ground." Nekoyami's clawed hand above Hiei's chest began to glow dangerously. "Let these be the last words you hear, you had all the time in the world to run away and try to escape."
The glow around Nekoyami's hand brightened and it pulled Hiei closer to it. Nekoyami raised the glowing hand, raising Hiei into the air. Hiei's dark aura shone around him. Realizing what was happening, Hiei desperately swung his sword around in wide obscure angles around him. Nekoyami chuckled at Hiei's fruitless attempts. Knocking the sword out of Hiei's hand, Nekoyami preceded his plan.
'I plan to kill him like your parents. Does that help your answer?'
Kuwabara gasped inside. 'NO! NO! Don't do that!'
Twitching his hand slightly caused Hiei's midsection to be dragged further closer to Nekoyami's palm. Hiei's hands clenched from fighting back. Hiei's back arched upward from another twitch of Nekoyami's hand. Hiei struggled to get his stomach back down and to claim it as his. Nekoyami twitched his hand more viciously and Hiei's back arched upward so far that it seemed impossible for his back not to break from the pressure it was receiving. But Hiei was desperately trying to get it back away from Nekoyami's wrath that was settling around him, pulling on his very soul.
Pausing a few seconds to relish Hiei's pain from keeping back a scream, Nekoyami's hand twitched once more. And a heart-stopping scream was soon heard by the whole woods area to hear.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Yusuke's head rose from the ground from the loud noise, the girls in the distance hurried their pace, and Kurama and Yukina looked on in shock.
A deafening crack echoed across the trees and Hiei's figure slumped, his body finally giving up the fight, and the scream that had protruded from his mouth…stopped.
A dark black with even deeper etched violet rolling across the black rapturous orb flowed from Hiei's unmoving body and into Nekoyami's palm.
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Silverwing013: The end.
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Silverwing013: Okay, okay! This is the intermission I spoke about at the beginning. Everyone gets a potty break.
Mikko: What is it with you picking on Hiei-Silverwing013 shrugs her shoulders-
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Silverwing013: Are you guys back? Okay, we pick up our dramatic ending now. Sorry if no one understood what the heck the orb was that came out of Hiei. It seemed obvious, but will be answered for all you stupid people later.
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Nekoyami held up the dark orb in triumph with his left hand. The group of girls finally caught up to where the scream was heard from. Botan gasped at what Nekoyami held in his hand. "He…he…," she trailed off in disbelief.
Yukina stood by, still in shock over this whole business. Kurama's work in progress went unwatched over as he starred at Hiei in shock. Yusuke was still lying on the ground from before but a yell burst from his lips that echoed through the dead silence.
"HIEI!"
Nekoyami looked over at Yusuke and the new audience watching him now. Hiei's already slumped figure fell to the ground in a heap. "I will be taking my leave now. The ice maiden goes with me."
Nekoyami turned toward Yukina who now got over most of her shock and attempted to get away from the cat demon's grip, but failed. As soon as he had a hold on Yukina, Nekoyami took off into the distance.
Kurama was watched Nekoyami go off in disbelief and then looked back to his closest partner, now lying on the ground without movement. Kurama's anger caused the seed plant he had planted in the tree trunk to grow at an impossible swiftness, gaining momentum as it wrapped around the tree, causing the spirit swords around him to bend outward, giving Kurama enough room to quickly maneuver out from under them.
As he impulsively raced after Nekoyami, Botan screamed at him, "Stop, Kurama!"
Catching up with Nekoyami with his anger, Kurama ran up behind him. "Nekoyami," came out deep and growling from his mouth, his eyes glittered dangerously with anger that barely anyone had ever seen before.
Nekoyami turned his head to the side to look over at Kurama. "Is the great Yoko actually showing emotion? You really have grown weak with these humans."
"Shut up!" Kurama roared at the cat demon. "The name is Kurama and you will pay for what you have done!"
His rose whip lashed outward viciously at Nekoyami with such an angry speed it was astounding. Drawing blood from Nekoyami's shoulder, the rose whip continued to thrash viciously at Nekoyami at a perilous rate. Nekoyami's eyes widened at the first mark Kurama made and barely escaped the rose whip on the next angry slashes. Kurama advanced rapidly on him, backing Nekoyami into a tree. As he advanced upon the notorious cat demon, several more livid slashes of red appeared on Nekoyami. And Nekoyami wasn't toying anymore.
Nekoyami took great warning in Kurama's eyes flashing to a deadly handsome amber-gold and his ears inching up his head, his hair becoming longer with stunning locks of silver. Taking in the warning, Nekoyami thrust the dark orb in front of him to cease the famous Yoko's attacks of fury.
Yoko straightened up a few feet away, unwilling to strike the dark orb that Nekoyami held. For a few seconds they both stared at one another, each with their own secretive smile, and then attacked.
Nekoyami won with his attack and Yoko was bashed upon the head, which reverted him back to his red headed side. "Never fight on anger," Nekoyami quoted, "or haven't you heard that one Yoko."
There was a loud crunching sound heard from the side that diverted both of their attentions. Yusuke stood from a hard walk to this area of the woods with his index finger pointed straight at Nekoyami in his classic spirit gun pose, ready to strike. Nekoyami's eyes widened at the fact the Yusuke was going to directly attack on 'Kuwabara' like this.
"I will not believe that Kuwabara would allow this to be done! Honor means everything to him!" Yusuke started running forward despite the obvious pain towards the spot Nekoyami, Kurama, and Yukina were. "Kurama, he's mine!"
Kurama quickly moved out of the way from Yusuke's advancement on the copper colored cat demon. Nekoyami stared bored at Yusuke's approach. Kurama, however, realized what Yusuke was planning and muttered out loud, "'never assume anything.'"
Nekoyami's head whipped over in Kurama's direction at the repeat of his own words thrown back at him. Turning his head back over at Yusuke showed him that Yusuke had changed his tactics. Yusuke was not in fact charging Nekoyami with a single 'bullet', but with the whole load. It was a bit late for Nekoyami to react this time though, and Yusuke knocked away the dark orb with his free hand and then grabbing the blue uniformed shirt of Kuwabara's so that Nekoyami had no way of escape. In all the confusion, even though Yukina wasn't able to get away, she still was able to duck down to avoid the blasts.
The blasts ricocheted off of Nekoyami, tearing at the blue shirt and stinging his chest. As the blasts continued, Botan was seen on her oar, diving gracefully for the black orb that had come from Hiei's body earlier. Making her landing next to Kurama, she quickly checked over the orb for any damage. Yusuke's blasts finished and Nekoyami glanced down at the mere redness they had formed on his chest, and then pushed the completely drained Yusuke away from him.
Yusuke thumped onto the ground, falling roughly on his behind. Keiko and Shizuru raced up to the area, Keiko at once hastened to run straight to Yusuke's aid. Kurama stood straightly upright, getting himself ready for battle once more.
Memories flew by. Yusuke landed one punch after another on Kuwabara. Yusuke trusting Kuwabara to kill off Rando if he didn't make it. Punch. Kuwabara and Yusuke working together on the rescue mission for Yukina. Punch. The Dark Tournament. Punch. Yusuke coming after him on a bike. Punch.
"NO!" Nekoyami shouted out loud.
Kurama, Yusuke, Botan, Keiko, Yukina, and Shizuru looked at the cat demon in bewilderment. His energy seemed to be growing at a furious rate. A battle waged inside.
'Kurama is right, never assume anything.'
'How are you doing this!' Panic reigned over Nekoyami's voice. 'You are too weak to be able to gain control back!'
'Don't assume things about me, Nekoyami!' Kuwabara's voice came out clearly on each of his words following. 'I…AM…NOT…WEAK!' more memories of Urameshi, Kurama, the runt, Yukina, Kuwabara's sister, Botan, Koenma, Kuwabara's gang, his cat, and more rushed by.
"I must finish what I started!" Nekoyami shouted out loud to the group.
He turned violently to Yukina and leaned hastily down to mark her as a mate with his fangs.
'NO! I AM NOT WEAK!'
'I AM NOT WEAK!' Kuwabara repeated his words again.
Nekoyami's head still continued its descent towards Yukina's neck, fangs outstretched. The group gazed on in worry and Kurama raised his rose whip once more. Yukina noticed that Nekoyami's red eyes were blazing back to Kazuma's regular color.
"Kazuma!"
The group watched stupefied as Nekoyami's head blocked their view of Yukina's head. In fact, they couldn't see her from where they were standing at all, due to the cat demon's tall body. Botan almost dropped the dark orb as it suddenly flashed its darkness outward a few feet while it was still in her hands. Kurama rushed forward in the direction of Nekoyami and Yukina, his rose whip in hand.
"I am not weak! Emotions make me stronger than you! The power of love will destroy anything you try! It's not only Yukina; it's for my friends as well! Urameshi, Kurama, and even the runt! I can no longer allow you to control my body Nekoyami! I'll give it all up to see you die for what you have done!"
Kurama stopped his slash for Nekoyami as he realized Kuwabara had resurfaced. The tail wrapped around Yukina disappeared, claws were disappearing, Kuwabara's copper hair returning back to its curls. Kuwabara's spirit sword flashed outward from his hand and he turned to Yukina sadly.
"I'm sorry Yukina, but an honorable sacrifice is better than having Nekoyami inside me for the rest of my life, waiting to ruin it in anyway he can."
Kuwabara placed the spirit sword tip on his chest, closing his eyes, waiting for the pain.
"No! Kazuma!" Yukina hurriedly placed her hand on Kazuma's, causing him to pause and look at her.
They stared at each other for moments, as if outside of time from the rest of the world. Neither moved, but it something sparked between their eyes that made Kurama wonder on their relationship. The moment ended and Kuwabara spoke down to the ice maiden, willing her to understand and forgive him.
"I'm sorry."
Kurama lashed out his rose whip at Kuwabara's hand, latching the rose whip around it, pulling it away from his heart. Instead, the spirit sword plunged into Kuwabara's midsection, away from the vital organs.
Kurama spoke to Kuwabara's bewildered eyes looking at him. "We will find a different way to destroy him."
"But…I've tried Kurama…many years…" Kuwabara looked at Kurama desperately
"We will find another way to defeat him." Kurama spoke sternly.
Kuwabara looked at Kurama with trusting eyes that Kurama would perhaps use his smarts to find a way, but found for the first time in their time together that he could not trust Kurama with this. "…No Kurama."
Kurama's eyes widened at the fact Kuwabara would be so willing to killing himself to kill Nekoyami in the progress. As much as Kurama hated Nekoyami, it seemed the Kuwabara side was much different than the cat demon. Kurama quickly made his decision and stepped forward to knock Kuwabara unconscious and caught the tall copper head before he crashed to the ground.
"Kazuma…" Yukina said in worry next to Kurama, looking down at the human boy whom so cherished and treasured her.
Kurama heaved Kuwabara up into his arms, taking careful note of the drips of blood from Kuwabara's wound from his own sword, and resolutely walked back to the group behind him, sadness over the whole situation clouding over him. He barely noticed the worried ice maiden following behind him, forcing herself not to cry over what she had just seen of her Kazuma.
Kurama reached the group that had watched and heard the whole deal. Keiko standing next to Yusuke, helping him up. Botan standing there awkwardly with the black orb. Shizuru glanced at her baby brother resting in Kurama's arms almost peacefully. Not saying a word, they followed slightly behind Kurama back to where Hiei's body lay. Since Shizuru and Yukina weren't holding anything of any importance, it was they whom picked Hiei cautiously up from his slumped position on the ground.
Yusuke broke the silence, Keiko still holding him up as best she could. "Will Hiei be alright?"
The group looked at each other at the unspoken worry and then their gazes rested upon Kurama.
"I don't know Yusuke," Kurama kept walking along in front of them.
Moments passed in more silence as they reached the portal Koenma had left open for them. The group had been worried over Hiei's disappearance and Kuwabara had a horrible feeling about the shorter one being gone. Koenma allowed a portal to be made in human world passing into demon world where Hiei was last spotted. The portal only allowed themselves to pass through and Hiei if they got him to come back, so that no other demons passed into the human world.
Botan spoke up, still holding the dark orb in her hands although she kept a good distance away from it in case it flashed outward at her again. "Once this is returned, someone close to Hiei will have to…you know…." Her voice drifted off a bit. "Kurama…I suppose that would be weird and the only other person is…."
The group minus Kurama, Kuwabara, and Hiei turned to look at the ice maiden helping with carrying her brother.
"Me?" Yukina questioned the staring eyes.
Botan continued, "Those are the only two Hiei was especially close to."
The wind blew up fiercely around the group that now stood in front of the portal.
"Listen up Botan," Yusuke spoke up. "He was close to anyone of us but the stubborn fire head would never admit it. One way or the other, we'll get him back."
He turned to the portal determination flaring up in those chocolate brown eyes, "Don't worry Kurama. Hiei's too stubborn to die on us. He'll live. Now lets get back to Genkai's and get his soul back into his body."
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Silverwing013: Hope ya'll enjoyed! Until I Say is coming to an end, perhaps an ending no one expects from the fire demon. But shall be continued in The Forbidden Past once I get it out.
Mikko: I won! I will not be erased! Take that-pause- um…fluff head wants the story to be destroyed. He agrees with me on the overkill part from earlier.
Silverwing013: Oh really? He never wanted Yu Yu Hakusho to be written either. So Mikko…-slyly looks over at her- should I delete the story for Hiei?
Mikko: NO! Have you ever known me to agree with that guy!
Silverwing013: Nope. So until the next (and perhaps last –cries-) chappie of Until I Say.