Chapter 8 - You Can See Me Now?
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Ikken hid behind an old crate. From the smell it was probably an old beer box. She held her left arm and watched slowly as the blood flowed out of it. She remembered clearly the pain when she had been smashed through the wall. But after that she had run into a pipe, causing her arm injury. She prayed that Yue couldn't smell blood. She heard him walking through the broken wood and examining the place. He called out to her every so often with things like 'puppet', 'darling,' and 'little missy.'
'What is he? Western?' She thought angrily.
"Ah! There you are!" he threw wind at the crate and she closed her eyes. The crate blew up, sending her flying through the air.
"Ah!" she screamed, landing on her left shoulder caused her to wince in pain. But she would not give him the satisfaction of knowing her arm hurt her. She crawled away to a shadowed part of the room.
"Come now Puppet. I ain't gonna hurt you. I just wanna talk." he cooed. Ikken knew better and stood up. Running as lightly as she could, Ikken darted through the shadows into the next room of the building. She would go up, but dripping blood would draw his attention.
She leaned against a wall after running a good ways away from him. She couldn't hear him anymore, so she let her breathing go unchecked. Taking in gasps of air and trying to make the pain in her arm go away, she sat there.
'I can't think...He can read my thoughts...Oh, but I need help.' she argued with herself. 'Wait...he cant read my mind...he can sense when I'm angry or desperate! Then...I just wont be.' she thought.
Sitting there, the darkness enveloped her. The silence that filled the room was so heavy that soon she could hear through the walls and into the large room Yue was in. He was whistling...he knew she wasn't there anymore...So what was he waiting for? She scooted father from the sound and hit the corner wall with her left arm. Pain shot through her body and she realized her injury was worse than it seemed.
'Desperate or not...I need help...' she thought. Ikken took a deep breath, braced herself, and went for it. "KURAMA!" She called.
It echoed. Yue smirked.
"Seems she can't help herself." he jumped and was gone.
"KURAMA!"
Kurama paused in running. He had heard it...duh. He took off at an even greater speed.
Yusuke, Keiko, Kuwabara, and Shizuru paused. They had been playing a video game. Yusuke looked to Kuwabara. That scream, someone had called for Kurama. They both went onto the balcony and looked around. The whole city seemed to be waiting...
Hiei sat bolt upright. He'd been asleep. Most of the city was asleep. He looked around and untied his headband. Hiei searched the city, his prison, for any signs of movement.
He saw Ikken, black haired though, sitting in a shadowy corner of a warehouse, bleeding and in need. He saw Yue, jumping around in the warehouse like it was a fun house and glared at this demon's stupidity. He saw Yusuke and Kuwabara, looking for the source of the recent noise. And he saw Kurama, running towards the docks. He was almost there already.
Hiei retied his headband and took off.
"Come out come out where ever you are!" Yue called, bouncing on the tops of crates in the room Ikken now hid. She caught her breath and hoped Kurama had heard her.
"Now now, I have no time for such games. I have a schedule to keep, and a list to check off. You're at the top of that list, so you're first!" he said in an almost singsong voice. She pressed herself further into the wall and hoped against all hope that help, Kurama or not, was coming.
"There you are." came a whisper in her ear. She jumped and screamed, backing away from Yue. She hit only wall and had nowhere to go. "While you hide yourself, you can not use your 'great power!' So come out now. Show it to me!"
She spit at his feet. He glared at her. Yue flung out his arm, little golden rings appeared that held her to the wall. He flung out his other arm, and as he spoke, he threw blades of wind at her.
"How dare you! I raised you! I found you in the Makai forest and took you in! This is how you repay me? Ruining my new outfit?" he asked, pausing.
Her sleeves were gone and the excess of her extra-large t-shirt. She had multiple slashes on her legs and arms, blood spilling from each wound. She coughed up some blood and then raised her head.
"Damn you." she said in almost a whisper. "When you took me in you were a kind and gentle demon. Now you are nothing but a crook. A robber, a mere mortal. A mere human" she hissed. He was seething.
"I am not human! I am the greatest!" he yelled, closing in on her. "You know how I gain power, correct? It's why you ran away! To escape the inevitable! Now face it! You can not run away anymore!" he said, a mere 5 steps from her.
"You pretend." Ikken recited, eyes half closed. "You run away from whatever it is that scares you if it's not an immediate problem. I'm an immediate problem. But Kurama...he isn't an immediate problem. You could run away and not face him. You could run away and not face me. But you cant outrun your problems! Do you know what we are? What we all are? You are not like him, but he is not like anyone I know. There is a classification, which we all fit into, but there are different types of people...creatures in this category. Kurama is different from all the others, so are you. I'm sure there are others like you. But there are few of him. Few who would go to such lengths and who wouldn't give up until they're job is done."
"What?" Yue asked, baffled at the sudden speech.
"I ran away...from my problems. I ran away from Kurama, from the world. That was wrong. I was wrong to not face my problems. I know what we all are. Every living thing in every existing realm resides in it. We're all living creatures. We're all monsters. Doesn't matter if we're human, demon, or angel. It doesn't matter if we're a spirit or a magical creature. Everything resides in one classification..." she began to cry. Hiei, who was sitting in the opening in the roof that used to be a window, smiled at the fact that she understood. "I'm a...monster too..."
"Yes..you are. A monster pretending to be an angel. Your powers will greatly help me. Now, give me your soul." he demanded, reaching out to her. He placed his hand on her forehead and she began to glow.
A whipping noise was heard as Kurama's rose whip appeared, slashing off his hand. He screamed in agony as he held his hand, backing up. Kurama ran up and pulled Ikken from the wall.
"Are you alright Ikken?" he asked, she wasn't moving. "Ikken!"
"K-kurama..." she muttered, looking up at him and smiling. "Can you...see me now?" she asked. Kurama smiled a small smile at her. He nodded.
"Yes...I can see your wings." he answered, finally consenting to the fact that they were real and what she had always been asking about. She smiled and closed her eyes. Her head dropped and she fell limp. Kurama's eyes widened. "Ikken? Ikken!" he shook her.
"Heh heh. I don't get her power...but neither does she." Yue laughed, another hand taking the place of his lost one. "As you can see, I can regenerate. So you have no chance."
Kurama stood up. He was boiling over with rage and sadness. His aura blew around them, making Ikken's hair blow too. Yue backed up and covered his face from the blue-ish light that was coming from Kurama. Smoke billowed out and when it cleared, Youko Kurama stood where Kurama had been.
"Who?" Yue managed. Youko looked from him, to Ikken, and back to him. He was suddenly in front of Yue and sliced off his right arm. Yue regenerated it. "Ha. I told you, I cant be beaten!"
"Who said I was trying to beat you? I want to kill you." he said in a soft and evil voice. Yue blinked and shot wind at him. Youko deflected it and then ran up, slicing off both arms. Yue fell to the ground in pain, then his arms grew back.
"You can't kill me that way." Yue laughed, standing up. "Not even if you cut my head off will I die!"
"Fox." Hiei said from behind them. Youko looked at him as Yue charged. He had Yue parried. "She's alive. Give her some of your energy and she should be ok." he instructed coldly. Youko nodded, turning back to Yue. He pushed Yue back a few feet.
Yue came at Youko again, but was caught by Hiei. Hiei fought him as Youko went over to Ikken. He transferred some of his energy to her and didn't stop giving her energy until he heard her breathing. He looked down at her and saw she was completely different from before. Ikken slowly stood up, holding her head. Youko Kurama stared as he stood up.
She had white wings and black crescents on her cheeks with blue lining. Dark blue lines spiraled down both her arms and legs. On her left arm and right leg, a red line swirled down along with the blue one. On her right arm and left leg, a purple line swirled down along with the blue one. She had a medium blue gem shaped like a diamond on her forehead. It was glowing due to the fact that so much spiritual energy was at work at the moment.
She was wearing a silver silk outfit, almost a kimono. The slits in the sides started at the bottom of the skirt and went up to 1 ½ feet from her hips. Her sleeves were long and flared, starting at the elbows. She wore white gloves; ending at the wrist, and white boots; ending at the ankle. Both flared at their tops, or bottoms...your choice what to call it. She had a gold locket hanging around her neck and a silver bracelet on her right wrist
Her eyes were a brilliantly bright blue that seemed to pierce everything, even the soul, with gold lining. Her canines were slightly longer than normal. She had strawberry blonde hair with dirty blonde, natural highlights. Her cheeks were tinted a slight pink as if she just got back from the beach and had a little too much sun on her face. Her lips were the normal pinkish color but the lipstick she wore was deep black.
Her eyelashes and nails were also slightly longer than usual. Her ears were pointed like an elf's ears.
Youko stared. Hiei glanced over and saw her, he pushed Yue back as Youko had done and walked over. Ikken, gathering her senses, finally noticed where she was.
"It's you, shorty! It's Yue! But...where's...?" she looked at Youko. He was also very different from Kurama. She looked into his golden eyes and saw Kurama. "Kurama?"
"Seems you see me too." he smirked. She smiled. He was so different now, but he was still Kurama.
"So, you aren't hiding anymore, huh coward?" Yue asked. He no longer had sleeves due to Youko cutting off his arms. He took off his jacket/over-robe thing and threw it away. He was now wearing a sleeveless black shirt and black pants with red streaks up the sides. His boots were red with black designs.
"Do you know what I think Hiei?" Youko asked. Hiei looked at him as if to ask 'what?' Youko nearly laughed. "I think his hair is too long."
"You have no right to say that fox." Hiei said with a smirk. "Your hair is longer than his now." Youko shrugged as Hiei disappeared. Yue yelled and when Ikken looked, his purple locks had been cut to were they now only reached his ears. The rest of his hair was on the ground. Ikken laughed.
"Damn you. Damn you all!" Yue threw his wind attacks, one after the other, at them. The three dodged. Youko went left, Hiei went right, and Ikken went up; leaving golden glitter behind her as she flew. Yue growled.
"Ikken!" Youko called calmly. "Do you know how to beat him?" he asked. She half nodded.
"Yes. You could suck out his soul." she answered as he came over to her. "But only he can do that. And I could try, I mean...I saw him suck his other pupils souls out, but I might mess up and-"
"Just do it!" he commanded, running over and attacking Yue. Ikken looked at Hiei, who was helping Youko, then at Youko himself. She glared at Yue and then closed her eyes.
She concentrated and then flew forward. "Hold him for me." she ordered. Youko and Hiei blinked and looked at each other, then did as told.
Ikken placed a hand on his forehead, he began to freak out and thrash everywhere. She was mumbling under her breath and he began to glow. Soon the thrashing stopped, and when she removed her hand, a whispy spirit followed it. Youko caught it in a jar he'd found laying on the ground and sealed it.
"Hiei. You're a messenger." he joked. "Pass this on to Koenma. Tell him who he is too."
Hiei glared as he caught the jar, but left anyway. Youko turned back to Ikken.
"So...we both had real forms..." Ikken said, blushing. Youko was changing. He was becoming Kurama again. She blinked as Kurama appeared back in front of her. "Huh?"
"Sorry. Though it is true that that is my true form, my demon form, we are almost two totally different people. I can not summon that side of me on command, only when I need it or use enough energy to call upon it." he explained, sitting down. Ikken sat down next to him, her wings out behind her.
"I'm sorry, for hiding myself from you." she said sadly, placing a hand on his. He blinked.
"Sorry for what?" Ikken seemed to be amazed he hadn't heard what she'd said. "Ikken. Not everybody is a monster. Am I a monster?" she shook her head violently. "See? You may be a demon, but that doesn't make you evil."
"But...I have wings. I'm impersonating an angel." she said sadly. Kurama put a hand on her shoulder, then stood up.
"Lots of demons have wings. In fact, my best friend before I chose human life had wings." he assured her. She blinked.
"Really?" she asked, looking hopeful. Kurama nodded and she bounced up an down. "Yay. Thank You Kurama!" she kissed him on the cheek. This left both blushing and out of use of words.
"Uh..." Kurama tried, clearing his throat and trying to make the blush go away. She blinked and snapped out of it, mostly.
"We should be going." she said matter-of-factly, making herself look like the blonde haired girl again.
"Go? Go where?" Kurama asked.
Just over 4 pgs long. Tis better, yes? Reviews please!
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