Catse: Thank you KoorimeFireFox! You helped me a lot! Haku's eyes are supposed to be blue, and I have no idea why I suddenly made them green, but for now, his eyes like to take on colors. I'll change it all later. And thank you Animefreak54 for pointing out the details I missed. You helped out a lot as well! Well, I'll let you all read now! Ja Ne for Now!
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Disclaimer: See chappie one...
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Haku was wondering if he would have to use his new power, the more he fought with Kenya's older sister. So far, he had blood leaking from his nose, one of his eyes was slightly bruised, and it didn't seem as if he was getting anywhere in beating Yoru.
He was right however. She was not suited for the whip she liked the most, and that was perhaps why she decided on accepting the daggers instead. Whips, if they latched onto anything, required very good control to get back in time to prepare for an attack. With throwing daggers, the only problem was making sure there was a large supply of them handy.
Haku again dodged another barrage of silver streaks as they came down to pound the earth with an eerie whistle. More daggers.
How many did she have anyway?
Yoru stood laughing on the gate top, a dark smirk on her black lips. "You can't beat me little red-head. You might as well give up. Either that, or sit still so I don't loose so many daggers on you. I want to save some of them for my brother and his other friends you know."
"So. You really are prepared to kill your brother." Haku inquired, standing up with a shaky breath. He would have to find her weakness, and soon.
"Of course I am. From the moment that brat was brought to life he's been a hindrance to me. Father always treasured him because he was a boy. I was always forgotten…always tossed to the side because no one's heart was as sweet as my dear brothers. I finally decided after a while, that I didn't need him, or my father's attentions. I was my own person. I could do as I liked. I trained myself when my father wasn't looking, I killed whatever came too close to me. I hung out in the graveyards with the bodies in order to attract demons to kill. For some reason, a lot of the demons in this world are attracted to…that. The weak ones at least. The strong ones have more sense. I grew in power. Now I'm so powerful, even my father would be a fool to pick a fight with me."
"So that's the problem eh? Kenya has been your arch-nemesis for years. And you went through all of that to find a way to distinguish yourself." Haku was somewhat disgusted. He'd already heard of Yoru's "habits" and for her to talk of them was disgusting in itself. Still, it was nice to know she didn't do them for pleasure.
Yoru smiled, her jagan eye gleaming darkly in the light.
"I think everything you endured…was childish." Haku acknowledged clearly.
Yoru's eyes narrowed. Her frown disappeared and her jagan began to pulsate.
"What did you say?" she growled, her clean deep voice becoming a mixture of rage and disbelief.
"You haven't grown up. There is no maturity in the way you think. You disgust me Yoru." Haku said much more clearly. "And I believe that the power you possess doesn't belong to someone whose intentions are silly."
"Why you coniving little…" She growled, but in a moments time she relaxed and even started smiling again. "So…that's the way you think, eh? I'm childish. Well, how long have you been able to perceive the world fox cub? I have sense my brain was fully developed, still sitting in the womb. I've heard the worlds violence, and I was born into it. I've seen things in my childhood that would make a kind man grow cold and heartless. Why do you think I want nothing to do with humans? They are decietful and loathing. They pretend to care when in reality they do not."
"Demons are the same Yoru." Haku interrupted, glaring up. He could feel a tiny strain of blood leaking from his ear, but he did his best to ignore it.
"They are not the same! They have a law to them! They obey a law! They may kill, but they do it in honor. In pride! Can you say that for the human race. The very race that multiplies like a virus and consumes the world. At least in Demon World, the most powerful are left living, and their world is cared for. Trees still grow there dammit!"
"Yoru. You have only seen the negative in this world. You have never looked around to see the positive. You let the darkness in your own heart take advantage of you. But I can't say I'm much different. Since I was little I have always been looked down upon. I was always despised for my intelligence, and how fast I raced through school when everyone else had to go by it slowly. But I can't help what I am, and neither can you. You are the proud warrior of a race of ice apparitions that has survived in a world of disaster and chaos without going crazy or committing suicide. Your father is a trusted and well respected protector of humanity and the demonic spirit, as well as everything else. No demon nor human can ever take advantage of your skill or strenght as long as you live. You have everything set for you and yet you still fight to see the evil. That is why you are childish. You refuse to look around and see the world as it really is! Past the darkness and destruction—"
She cut him off.
He wasn't sure when she had created it, but an ice dagger had flown in and snipped right through his chest, missing his heart by bare centi-meters. He felt the blood within him gush out over his dark blue uniform, and in haste, he reached up and covered the wound, soaking his own hands.
She hadn't known it, but she had created her funeral.
"Why should I listen to an eight year old? You know not of my life. And you irritate me even more than my brother does. I'm tired of playing. You better be ready Haku, because your life is mine."
"Fine. I will stop playing as well."
"You, playing! Hah! Don't make me laugh kid! Look at yourself. You're so cut up in places, that you can't even see all your wounds. Hell, your hair certainly has taken a darker color, don't you think?" Haku reached up with his other hand to touch his head, only to bring it back smeared in blood.
He didn't even notice the bright green restraint around him until it was too late, power of the Jagan eye Yoru weilded.
He sat completely paralyzed for a few moments, the tight hold on him doing nothing for his wounds. If he wanted to live, he was going to have to use his power. Suddenly, in his time of need, his mother's memory washed over his mind.
FlashBack
"So Mother. What are we doing out here in the forests of Genkai? I do not believe you are here for a mere "walk" as you stated earlier." Haku inquired, looking at the scenery. He would have named a few plants, only his curiosity to why they were there was ebbing at him.
"You're right. This is far enough. Come over to me Haku. I have something I must explain to you."
"Is it about the power you gave me. Mother, I am already learning how to use it."
"This is about how to use it my son. The power I gave you is no common gift. No young Yoko is allowed to have it until they are over a hundred years of age. But you are fighting an opponent with ten times that experience, so you must be prepared."
"What do you mean?"
His mother sighed, her beautiful blue eyes staring down at a daisy that was just dancing on the wind.
"Haku. The power I gave you does not rely on the Spirit energy you emitt alone. Because you are young, you haven't enough to keep it working. This power requires blood, and sacrifice. You must sacrifice something dear to you, something you have cared for for a long time. Only then, will it be a power worth use. Only then, my son."
End Flashback
Haku snorted, watching as his red stream of blood poored from his wound. Yoru had opened up a pathway for him she wasn't even aware of. He was going to cut his hand for the blood he needed, but considering the damage she was doing with daggers, he didn't have to self inflict.
And, sadly, he already knew his sacrifice.
"If you think this is going to hold me, then you do not possess enough control over your energy as you think." Haku taunted, something his father rarely did. "Come now. Are you so afraid of me that you must pin me in one spot to even be capable of killing me? You certainly are pathetic."
"Shut up you little bastard!" Yoru snarled, forming an ice dagger in her hand, considering her others had run out.
"Now you've resorted to insult. Truly pathetic—" He didn't get a chance to finish. Another dagger sped at him and scraped a fine clean mark along his cheek. Thank goodness he managed to wiggle away far enough so that his nose didn't get peirced.
"I said shut up. After all, I'm not the one trapped in a Jagan Bind. You are you little shrimp."
Yoru's face was a mix of disgust and anger, as she had never been the patient type when it came to insult.
Haku hung his face…and after a moment of smiling, began to chuckle.
Yoru stared at him in disbelief, her face crumpling in confusion as she wondered what he was laughing about. She asked him that very question as well.
"I'm laughing at how your best idea of killing your opponent is of binding them to one spot and keeping them held. You have no real idea of how to kill a person quickly do you. Oh, you know how to torture them, but you never learned to get rid of an opponent on the spot. That is your mistake…because any one person you torture could possibly be the very one that breaks free and attacks you when you least suspect it. Foolish indeed."
"And what. You're that person that will break out? I doubt that."
Haku smirked once again, and finally looked up into Yoru's eyes. "Perhaps. Look at my hand."
Yoru wasn't sure what he was asking, but she figured it couldn't be too bad. Haku was a kid after all.
She looked down, and felt sort of silly for doing so. The only thing in his hand was a bloody rose, still dripping wet.
"And what is that supposed to be. The very weapon that kills me? I'm not afraid of blood kid. I can take whatever you throw at me." Haku chuckled again and his grin appeared soft, deadly.
"No. Not the rose. My hand."
Yoru returned her gaze, and was astonished to find that his hand was not like the other one.
The hand with the rose on it looked cream white, with long silverish claws that extended out like daggers as thin and fine as tree leaves freshly grown.
Slowly, the cream white coloring of his hand, crept up through the cuts in his shirt, and up to his neck, consuming his body whole in it's radiant glow.
Before long, Yoru even had to shut her eyes because the brilliance of the skin blinded her, as his body took on a golden radiance and shined her away.
When the light had vanished, a few moments later, Yoru looked back. She saw…nothing.
Her binds were still in place, shrinking up into nothing considering they had nothing to hold, but there was no one there. Haku…had vanished.
"Come out kid! I'm not in the mood for games!" Yoru snarled, glancing around, her fangs displayed over her lips. "Come out or I'll make you come out!"
"No need. I'm already here." A soft voice whispered coldly in her ear.
Yoru's first reaction was to turn on the person behind her and swipe at him with an ice sword she conjured up in a seconds notice, but by the time she had turned, he was gone again.
"Stop it! Show yourself!" She croaked, brows furrowing close together in agitation.
"Fine. Take a look." That same soft voice came from behind her again, and this time when she turned, there was an actual image to greet her.
He was about a head taller than Haku was, with long floods of golden hair, and silver tipped fox ears. His eyes shown silver underneath gentle black brows, and his entire body was cream white. His clothing had changed as well, taking the form of a golden robe with silver lining, and a gold symbol on the left of his chest. When Yoru's eyes landed on that symbol, she was certain her tongue had run for fear into the back of her throat.
The symbol was of a nine tails sprawled out over a circle, a word between each of them on a black background. The Broach of the Gold Kingdom—Heirarchy of the Fox Rulers.
Yoru gulped, but she wasn't sure why she was afraid. She had fought their kind before, and won! But there was something about this boy that had her shaking in her boots. But why?
"Yoru. You're hearts beating rather fast. Is there something wrong?" the fox inquired, a smile on his face.
"You never told me you were of the Golden Fox Kingdom Haku? Why not?"
Haku smiled, revealing a perfect set of silver teeth. "You never asked. Besides, the Gold Fox in my family is my mother, Queen of the Kingdom as of the moment. You may have heard of her. Jennifer Kyaki…The Blood Queen"
Yoru had heard of her alright. The woman was a danger to anyone that threatened her. She had assassins all over the world, and if anyone even so much talked to her the wrong way, she could have you killed. Her power was also that of a high S-class demon, capable of destroying even Yusuke if he messed with her. It was strange to hear that she had married and born a child, but then again, she had married the legendary Yoko, the Silver Fox Theif. And he himself already had many loyal to him in Demon world, ready to risk themselves. It was somewhat of an alliance between the gold and silver foxes, interesting as it was. Strangely though, the foxes had deteriorated down to a mere few that still represented their clans, such as the red foxes, the black ones, and the brown ones. Jeniffer and Yoko had to the be the last ones of their people, and the fact that they joined and had a child was almost unheard of. Foxes didn't marry those of other clans, and if theirs went extinct, they would rather die out than share the lands with anyone else. And yet, a Gold and Silver had come together, and given birth to a child that was now half Gold, and half Silver.
Which also meant another thing. While the Silver foxes based their main abilities on Earth and it's resources, the Golden Foxes based theirs on light, and the life within everything around them.
Which suddenly made Haku's trasformation make sense as well. Young fox cubs were not able to take an adult form until after at least a hundred years of existence. In the beginning, they looked like normal foxes, running around on dainty legs, and learning their powers without actual hands or legs, in order to master it in the mind before mastering it in the body. Then, over a hundred, their mother would pass down a power surge that had developed in her body before birth, and had grown within it, to her child, and then, they would have the energy required to take a full human like form with fox features.
Considering Haku was standing in fox form before that was incredible. His mother must have felt it was his time. Not only that, but there wasn't enough energy built up in the mother to pass down to Haku just yet, for it took a hundred years to gather enough, which only left Yoru to believe that the rest had come from the spirit energy resting within Haku. Which also left her with a little more of an understanding about the bloodied rose.
Blood held it's own spirit energy properties, and for foxes, especially golden ones, if something they treasured the most was destroyed in their blood, it created some sort of unexplained reaction in the body that allowed a multitude of energy to come forth. Unfortunately, they would be left weak and incapable to doing anything for months due to the drain in their bodies. In Haku's case, the one thing he had sacrificed, had been the rose, his father's prized Rose Whip, which had now been desintigrated into the transformation of Haku's body.
"So. You're a mixed fox demon. That's very rare you know." Yoru spoke, trying to gather some time for herself so she could figure out how to kill him. She had never fought one that was a merge between two natural powers before, life and earth.
Haku smiled, silver eyes dancing like dimes. "Yes well. I already knew that. As for time, because I have taken this form, it is limited, so I must kill you quickly. But do give me a fight please. I'd like to try this body out on someone worth while."
Yoru growled and ran at him with her sword, attempting to peirce his heart so as to kill him.
Just as she got close, he disappeared, and not even her speed could catch up to him.
Before she knew it, his small elbow had crunched into her spine, breaking it in three or four places along the lower region.
She collapsed to the ground, blood leaking from her lips as her body sent daggers of pain to her mind, cutting away at any possible thought. She tried to sit up…but found it impossible. She was paralyzed. He had caught her, and in a matter of seconds too.
Haku stood over Yoru, leaning down.
"Now you can never harm your brother or sister again. Since you hate this world so much, I will make it so you don't have to feel the pain of it any longer. But know this. The world you hate with such a passion…of crime and death and killing…Is going to change. That is a guarantee from a Yoko to you. We will make this world a better place, and maybe you'll finally be able to find peace in the afterlife.
Yoru again attempting to get up, hoping her legs would move, and if not her legs, something that could harm him could. Finally giving up on sitting or standing, she brought her ice sword up, and swiped at Haku's ankles as he stood up.
She thought she had made a hit when the blood sprayed from his legs, but she was left dead in bewilderment, when the last crushing blow struck her skull, and left it smashed into her brain.
Haku stepped away and sighed, sobs beginning to rack his frame. He had never cried before, but neither had he ever killed anyone either. This was the first death, and it had been to annihilate the pain in a woman that just didn't understand the world like everyone else.
He was glad, in a way, that she was dead. She no longer suffered, and neither did the rest of the world at her antics.
Just as the first tear rolled down his cheek, he felt a new presence in the area and turned.
Suddenly, Seika, Katai, and Arune were walking towards him, a crowd of children following him.
They looked at him in awe and confusion, until finally Arune spoke.
"Who are you? I've never seen you around here before."
Everyone else stared at him, and Haku wiped away the tear and smiled.
"It's me. Haku."
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Catse: Well, what did you think? Some of you are probably happy Yoru's dead. For others, you are probably mad at me for that. But, no worries okay. I won't say anymore than that. A friend of mine at school had asked me, after I told him about this story, where I had gotten the idea for all of the new characters I introduced. So, I answered him, and I figured you all would be curious as well.
Katai: I got her from one of my friends at school. Her favorite hobby is beating up on everyone else around her, and she loves to wrestle if she can. She and I are a lot alike in that we hate anything that reveals an inkling about our legs whatsoever, including dresses, shorts, and any other concoction that has been invented to the clothing industry. I believe her favorite phrase is "Who's butt can I kick now?" I can always depend on her for a good laugh or two.
Seika: This came specifically from my friend Michael. I ride with him on the bus, and he loves to annoy me! His favorite hobby is coming up with weird perverted thoughts about any phrase you say. Anything using "it" as the subject, he starts to crack up on, such as "Let's get it over with" or "Give it back!" He's a real perv, that loves to joke around a lot, but he's also dependable and trustworthy.
Kenya: I got his character from an acquaintance from school. That guys name is David and he's what most would call, a Lone Traveler. He's not very talkative, but when he does talk, everyone quiets down to listen because it's usually important. He gets a lot of respect and a lot of the time I see him wondering around school, just looking up on things, that kind of thing. I thought he would be a cool character for Hiei's son.
Haku: I bet everyone wants to know where I got his character from right? Well, it's a very unlikely person. My nine year old brother, Brian! Brian is not at all in college or anything, but he's a smart kid, and he loves to reply to stupid questions. His hobbies include reading anything from Samurai stories to mangas (he loves his books), telling everyone off, and trying his best in mastering his archery and his mathematics. He's got quite the vocab. too. I remember one time he got into a fight with a kid at the park, and if I remember correctly, his explanation of the event was "I saw the young kid throwing rocks on nearby civilians and I merely decided to help. What do you want me to do? Sit on the side lines and watch? I'm flabbergasted you would think that of me." Yeah...the scary part is, my brother was seven at the time and the kid that was throwing rocks was ten. Young kid...yeah...And one time, I walked into his room and saw he was reading a book. "Reading a book?" I asked. He waited a moment, and then replied "No. I just love the blinding white paper with the dark little marks that make up words because I get headaches from staring for long hours. What do you think?" He loves his sarcasm. Scary no?
Yoru: I got her from another unlikely place. I had an enemy in middle school named Paulette, and she would always try to push me around or shove me everywhich way. She made teachers uneasy and she got into fights a lot. In fact, I think she was in the principal's office every other hour for some sort of new crime or something. Well her eye landed on me at one point, and I was always quiet in school, and rarely ever talked, I guess I made a new play toy. She would shove me aroun, push me, do anything to really tick me off. I merely glared at her and kept on going. One time she got me mad enough to push her back. She laughed when I did and I threw her my meanest glare without even realizing it, and she and her buddies left. In any case, she was rather similar to Yoru, with a hot temper and a love for destruction and violence.
Tsuki and Satou: These I actually got the idea for from my best friend's two little sisters Victoria and Cassia. Cassia's a little older than Victoria, and where ever she goes, Victoria follows. When ever Victoria is in trouble, Cassia defends her. It kind of gave me a cute idea.
Suki: She came from my cousin Kojika85. Both love to joke around, but they won't wait around if it comes to a showing of their knowledge or ability, and they aren't hotheaded and run into the heat of battle without a plan first. Although Kojika is a proud goth and Suki isn't, I got her character from my cuz.
Suta: Last but not least, I got her idea of character from my best friend, Julianna. Don't get her wrong, Julianna isn't really after someone like Hiei. She likes how he looks and everything, but she wants someone that will make her laugh. Well, I got the idea for Hiei's wife from her, because both of them know a lot, and are avid anime fans. They are both really sweet, but won't wait if it comes to showing their opinion or correcting you on something. I thought her character would be perfect.
I've also decided that many of the characters to come in number three of this story will be a lot of my friends from school. I've already decided on everyone in the story, and what all they will do.
Oh, another thing. I've also changed something with the third story. My characters are still going to wander around the world, but this time they aren't looking for puzzle peices. I've got an idea that there are twelve people in the YYH world that each have a spirit of the Chinese Zodiac. You already know they have one, which is Seika, the dragon, but now they have to wander the Earth and find the other eleven in order to bring Kenya back to life. What will they have to sacrifice, and where will they have to go to get what they need to revive Kenya. You'll have to find out in the story (sorry for being so evil! Mwa hahahahahahaha...Okay...got that out of my system)
Oh, and one more thing. I'm doing a poll. I want to know, which character in this story is your favorite, and which one do you despise the most. You don't have to answer, but I'd like to know! Oh well, I've talked long enough! Got to go! Ja Ne for now!
