The Friends
By Youkiyra Solar alias Krystal Fox
Krystal Fox : I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho.
Chapter 15 Memories
Flashback: Youkiyra lived in a peaceful village but at night secretly the village occupants love to steal and destroy. She lived with her brother who was very kind but he was always teasing her about cetain things. One day she decided to go and visit the Graceless Forest, it was named this because everything was very dangerous and queer around it. Youkiyra loved to explore this dark wood here she would find uncounted numbers of caves and she would go into them and find where they led. On one such occasion she was going through the woods when she stumbled over something on the ground.
As she looked down she saw a sleeping fire demon or so she thought at first. She stepped back, her brother always warned her about fire demons. They were dangerous to a crystal fox; they could melt the foxes attacks and cause no harm to their own persons. She looked closer and saw that this demon was caught in a trap like an animal.
This very trap part of millions surrounding the crystal Youko's territory to fend off enemies. Only the Youko's knew where they were and how to avoid them. There were miles deep of these on the edge of their borders.
"How cruel!" Youkiyra thought.
For at heart, though she could be a cold blooded murderer, she was a very kind hearted fox caring for those who have had many misfotune and wanting to help, the girl at her feet seemed to have many.
Kneeling down she loosened the trap while doing so noticed that this Fire demon, a female, was hurt badly and unconscious from the pain. Though Youkiyra knew that it would be dangerous taking this girl to her village, but crazy fox, she would do it. She scooped up the small girl and went running fast towards her village, as she neared her home she began to feel the warmth of this girl in her arms, much hotter then she expected a fire demon to be.
Once going through her back door saw her brother, but he looked at her as though she was not supposed to associate with fire demons but he knew that determined look on his sister's face. It read, "Don't you dare try and stop me or your will regret it."
Her brothe so many times had interfered and he shouldn't have that he still remembered the few choice words (he never knew that she knew) had said to him, ones that would have their parents turning over in their graves if they had heard them.
"Sister,care for this demon you may but in the basement where the others in the village won't go, so that she will be safe and also we won't get into trouble."
Youkiyra smiled at him and he rolled his eyes he would never be able to resist that joyful look in her eyes. And helped carry the girl downstairs, laying her on their guest bed, went and got some hot water to help with the cleansing of the wounds.
The girl was having a nightmare, she dreamt that those who had hurt her were now going to be torturing her more so that she would be helpless to stop it. She began to thrash in her sleep trying to get away from the gentle hands of her savior. Youkiyra noticed this and knew if the girl didn't stop that she would only hurt th fire demon more trying to heal her and would cause the poison which all traps on crystal fox borders are coated in would cause her leg to be paralyzed forever. As her last resort she pulled a sterilized needle out and inserted it into the girl's arm causing her to fall into a drugged sleep.
Youkiyra worked on the wounds and removed the poison and the only stuff left was enough to only leave the smallest of limps but even that would be hard to be seen by anyone except those who looked really hard, then once the wounds were properly taken care of she wrapped them and began to prepare some soup for this demon to have when she woke.
After a couple hours it was the bone-chilling night of winter Makia, it did not bother Youkiyra but she knew that it might bother her patient because she was sick and might not have the energy to keep warm so went down to watch over her charge to make sure the fire demon kept warm.
Over 4 hours passed and the girl moved and groaned, but then found she couldn't she couldn't move her fight arm, alarmed tried to sit but to hands that seemed extremely cold pushed her back down.
"It's alright, no one is going to harm you. Peace. You shall not be harmed. My name is Youkiyra what is yours?"
The fire demon looked startled as the cold hands from her savior held her down from sitting up. She saw honesty and kindness in this person's eyes so her mouth said, "Nakine."
Then thinking to herself " This is an ice fox, and this is in the home of my traditional families worst enemies then I am so dead."
"Well, Nakine, rest up and don't go moving about, because you will reopen the wounds that I have healed, just rest." Youkiyra said softly.
Nakine relaxed a little but didn't put her guard down, that evening Youkiyra came downstairs and then she stopped at the bottom of the stairs and said laughing at something up the stairs, " Arigeano you can bring down the soup now."
Her brother came walking down the stairs holding a bowl of soup at arms length away and his nose screwed up in a silly way trying not to smell the soup.
"Here Nakine this will help you because, that trap you were caught in was poisoned your body will put all it's energy to stop the small amount of poison I couldn't get out. In this cold village in your state you will be an ice cube if you don't warm up soon so I concocted a soup to help with that." Youkiyra said handing the fire demon the soup.
Nakine carefully ate the soup not knowing that there was also some controlling liquid in it so she would have to do what the fox said whether she wanted to or not.
After she finished her soup Arigeano looked questioning , "Youkiyra, if she is an ice maiden then why did you give her fire demon soup?" He said jokingly to his sister not knowing the demon would take it to heart.
Nakine mad at him for saying lit his tail on fire. Glaring at her now knowing that she wasn't an ice maiden left. Above they heard voices, Youkiyra hurried up and Nakine wanted to hear what they were talking about, the one talking was obviously the chief over the village and he was saying.
"Youkiyra, I have been smelling fire demon blood over here and wondering if you have one here?"
"Oh no, I'm dead" Nakine said to herself thinking this girl will turn her over.
"Oh yes." Nakine cringed and waited, "It is fire demon blood, but you see it was one of the traps that was set up in the woods. It seems that this fire demon got away and has from the looks of it a very poisoned leg," Youkiyra said innocently.
"Well okay, keep up the good work, and put that trap back so we can hurt more unsuspecting fire demons." She nodded.
"Why is a crystal fox, my enemy, covering for me? This is getting creepy I don't understand what is going on? I don't understand?" Nakine thought. Then at that moment the desk she was standing on collapsed making a loud crash.
Youkiyra popped her head at the top of the stairs and she said, "I've been waiting for that desk to fall apart for a long time looks like you just sped up the process, now it's time for you to get some rest so that you can heal up."
"Make me!" Nakine challenged.
"Okay…get on the bed." and some force propelled Nakine on to the bed.
"You can't make me go to sleep." Nakine said matter-of-factly.
"Oh but I can, that soup I gave you had a controlling liquid in it and it will give me control over you for the next three days." Nakine growled at her before she could stop the fox sleep fell like a blanket over the demon.
Youkyra having ordered her to sleep.
While Nakine slept Youkiyra the snoop that she was read Nakine's mind to why she had been so hurt besides the trap wound and so far from her lands.
Nakine was half fire demon and half bat demon, fire demons never have girls and they treated her cruelly and finally planned on killing her but she proceeded to burn their hands and escaped with only a few serious wounds. She felt sad that this girl was treated so by her own people.
The next few days Nakine relaxed in the company of this friendly and kind fox and her brother and soon became friends with Youkiyra. The 5th day together Youkiyra could tell that Nakien was restless so she said, "Friend, tonight you can go on your way if you promise to come back once in a while when I go to the woods to practice knives (her fighting training) and gathering herbs."
Nakine smiled, Youkiyra knew that this was her unworded answer of yes. So nakine left that night and over the next 10 years became closer friends trusting the other with to the uttermost trust.
Then the fateful day came. Fire demons were planning a massacre of the cyrstal Youkos and burning down their villag, Nakine over heard while sneaking her way through their camps, hearing this went immediately to the village where her friend was but found her only in time to drag only her out of the village so her friend would not die.
When she fled with her friend the crystal village was overrun by fire demons killing every which way, none of them noticed the Forbidden Fire child dragging behind her the soon to be only Crystal fox.
When Nakine had dragged her friend over 145 miles she stopped out of breath, that's when Nakine saw a bat demon nearby, also that he was an old friend of her mother's, Kurone was his name, he had been the only bat demon who had really been nice to her but seeing that he would cause them no harm left him alone that's when he said something that Nakine wished she had never heard, because of the many times that Youkiyra would use it later in the future.
"This will end funny or go ker-plop says I. There is more to this story than meets the eye."
Thus began the stealing spree of the 2 best friends. The first to loose their valuables were the fire demons that had killed her brother and all the rest in her village. Many thing that she began her stealing spree long before Youko Kurama or even before she was friends with Nakine but only she will know.
End of Flash back
Kara finally fell asleep dreaming of all the wonderful heists that she (by her self) and with her friend had pulled of before they even met their other companions. Wondering if they would be alive to do such things again after this tournament, she drifted into sleep dreaming of the past and the many "Golden Years" of thieving.
Krystal Fox: Hope you enjoyed!