ALONE IN THE DARK
CHAPTER THREE
THE MORNING AFTER
It was the next morning when he woke up to the smell of something baking. Yusuke had already been awake since the previous night and walked into the kitchen to see the table set neatly with plain yet pretty dishes, utensils, glasses, and placemats. There was a dish filled with eggs fried sunny side up and Blue was taking blueberry muffins out of the mini oven and putting them on a smaller dish before setting them on the table with butter, sugar, and orange juice. Skye was busy drying the extra grease off the bacon she had just fried to perfection.
"Smells delicious ladies, good morning." He leaned against the door frame until Skye invited him in to sit at the table and wait for the others. They both bid him good morning, Blue as she was leaving the kitchen to wake he other boys for their meal. He realized there was a woman sitting at the table that hadn't met yet.
"Hello ma'am, I'm Yusuke Urameshi. It's a pleasure to meet you." Skye looked over at him as he tried talking to the lady again since he received no response and continued to get the same answer, silence. Skye set the bacon on the table between the grapefruit halves and the fried eggs and sat down at the table in the seat one space away from his.
"Her name is Classivere, she's Blue's mother." Skye looked down at her empty plate.
"Why won't she answer me? Did I do something to make hr mad at me? Is she deaf and can't hear maybe? What's wrong with her?" Yusuke watched Classivere as she woman stared out the window.
"Don't worry, you didn't do anything. She was in a coma a while back and now she never talks and just stares off into space most of the time. We took her with us to Tokyo because Blue refused to give her to a babysitter or send her to a nursing home." Skye looked out of the window along with Classivere, maybe there really was something interesting out there that nobody else could see.
"I agree with Blue and don't blame her at all. It just wouldn't be right." Yusuke joined them in staring out the window. A small yellow canary landed on the window, chirped a happy tune, and flew off.
Back in the bedroom, Blue had succeeded in waking Kuwabara and Kurama and sent them into the kitchen to wait for her and Hiei. She tapped the side of his face softly and pulled gently on his hair. Call it impulsiveness, but she felt a sudden urge to squish his cheeks together. So she did, and luckily for her, he still didn't wake up. She pinched his nose, closed his mouth and waited to see if his would do anything. His eyes slowly opened and she released him.
"What the hell happened to me?" He moaned groggily as she helped his into a sitting position.
"Morning sunshine, I see you're bright eyed and bushy tailed today. You wouldn't want to eat breakfast by any chance, would you? Skye and I worked extra hard and made all the food on our own." She pouted as he glared at her and she sat back on her haunches, realizing this was going to take some time and effort and she was going to have to be convincing about it too.
"I don't eat ningen food. It's disgusting." Crimson eyes met grey ones as she glared right back at him.
"You're such a dork, you know that? Food in the human world and food in the demon world is all the same. I've been to Makai, I'm not dumb. Besides, nasty or yummy, you have to eat something or else you won't get better faster. I worked really hard last night until 1:30 in the morning to make sure you would be okay, so you can't stop eating and die on me. C'mon. It'll be good, really." She stood up and offered him her hand to help him to his feet but he refused it and went the more painful way.
When they got into the kitchen, the others had already started eating but had left just enough for Hiei and Blue to split. She made his dish for him and gave the bigger proportions since he needed it more than she. Fortunately, no one noticed, or at least spoke up, about any strange taste in their blueberry muffins. Without telling anyone, Blue switched the blueberries for a different kind of berry found only in Makai that would help accelerate the healing process.
Blue wondered why no one asked questions about the woman in the room that they hadn't met yet, Skye must have told them about her mother. Since she didn't believe in God, she thanked all that was good and pure for being blessed with such a wonderful person for a friend, especially considering Blue didn't deserve Skye at all.
'A good friend will come bail you out of jail, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, 'Damn, we fucked up'." Blue smiled to herself inwardly as she thought about what Genkai, her mentor of two weeks, had told her about Skye when the old lady had to bail them out of jail when they were arrested for assault and battery of a group of men. They had been arrested and used their only call to phone up Genkai and tell her to get their sorry asses out of the jug.
They were almost finished when they heard something beeping loudly. Yusuke pulled his communicator out of his pocket and opened it after excusing himself but staying in the room. Yusuke slammed the compact shut and shoved it in his pocket before sitting down and taking a huge aggravated bite out of his muffin, practically eating the whole thing. Kurama asked him what the matter was and Yusuke just huffed and said it went static and wouldn't work anymore.
"Ah, I remember when I thought I was attacked by a giant screaming rainbow, but Blue said it was only a technical difficulty." Skye smiled and took a sip of her juice. It lightened Yusuke's mood considerably and Kuwabara laughed while Kurama smiled and Hiei simply 'hn-ed'.
"My God, what is that thing?" Everybody looked to where Kuwabara was pointing and sat in wonder until Blue began to explain for them, seeing as how Skye was in hysterics.
"I'm brewing my own beer." There was a chorus of 'oh' and 'hn' and Kuwabara asked why she didn't just go out and buy one instead of having to go through the trouble of making her own.
"Because I don't like Japanese beer, no offense, and it's really expensive." She stared at him in a 'duh' sort of manner.
"What is it?" Kurama smelled the odor it was giving off.
"I'm not sure, but if it's ale I'll call it Champion Blue, and if it's a lager I'll call it Moch Light." She smiled proudly and chugged the rest of her juice on her way to the brewing beer and dropped the empty glass off in the sink.
"It's just so beautiful." Skye sniffed and wiped away a tear. "I'm going to be a mommy." She fell out of her chair and rolled around the floor laughing.
"Cut that out Skye! It's abso-bloody-lutely disgusting!" Blue not-so-playfully shoved Skye away from her with her sock-clad foot. Hiei noticed she was wearing one red sock and one green one.
'Why the different color socks?' He stared at her feet and she blushed before quickly excusing herself from the room. She came back with her boots on and he pressed her for an answer.
'Just because I felt like it! Ok? Jeez, they're just socks.' She lowered the fire under the beer and began clearing the table with help from Kurama. Skye insisted she sit down, probably so she could flirt with Kurama. Yusuke invited them all over to his apartment once everything had been taken care of and the girls graciously accepted. They hadn't made plans for the day and figured they were doomed to wander Tokyo aimlessly and probably get lost. Blue was forced to take her shoes off before entering Yusuke's apartment so she was subjected to Hiei's pressuring to find out why she wore two different color socks and why she was so touchy about it.
'Look, I have this problem where I can wear two different color socks and not notice the difference, ok? Does that bother you or something? Why do you care so much!' She glared at him hatefully as Yusuke turned on his PS2 since they were going to play.
'I just found it strange is all. I like it because it's different. What do you mean though you have 'a problem'? Are you colorblind or something?' She cut off the telepathic connection and he felt as if he had just shot himself in the foot. How dumb could he be? He was probably more foolish just now than Kuwabara had been stupid all day. She refused to talk to him and made an obvious effort not to talk to him, look at him, listen to him, or even be near him.
During their stay, Blue played Kuwabara, won, played Yusuke, and let him win since it was his game. She stayed seated at the end of the couch with Kurama and Skye between her and Hiei, on the other end of the couch. Yusuke and Kuwabara were on the floor in front of the television staring at it with hypnotized eyes. Yusuke ended up beating him quickly.
"So what should we-" Kuwabara was in the middle of asking about their next activity when Yusuke's communicator went off. When he opened it though, the screen was static still. Koenma appeared on the TV screen that they were playing videogames on earlier. Both girls were shocked and Blue quietly excused them before grabbing Skye's wrist, pulling her in front of her, and pushing her toward the door.
"Excuse me ladies-", both girls quickly twisted around and rubbed the backs of their heads with their right hand while smiling sheepishly, "Yes?" "May I ask where exactly you are going?" They looked at each other and back at the screen. Blue began first.
"Home because we just realized that."
"We haven't washed the dishes yet after breakfast."
"And since we're renting and apartment and wasn't to be able to sell it back for good money."
"We want to make sure we don't get infested."
"With any nasty ants or creepy critters."
"Because most people aren't very friendly with creatures not invited their house."
"So we'll just be leaving now."
"To clean up before any unwanted visitors come see us."
"And decide they want to be roomies."
"Because if three is definitely a bunch."
"Can you imagine what a few hundred would be like?"
"Phew, what a party that would be."
"So we'll say bye."
"Because we're leaving now."
"And thanks for having us over Yusuke."
"Yeah, it's been an honor."
"A thrill."
"A pleasure."
"A thrilling pleasure."
"But we've got to go now."
"So ta-ta and tootles."
"Sayonara, I think."
"Later!"
Skye darted to the door but Kuwabara stood in front of her and blocked her path. Blue pulled her away from him, through the middle of the living room and towards the terrace door which was quickly blocked by Kurama. Skye hit Blue when she stopped short in front of Yusuke. Blue jumped up, out from between the two of them, and flipped backwards to land safely on the top of the large TV set without so much as a creak from the old technology. Skye dropped to her knees and slid between Kurama's parted legs. She skidded out onto the terrace and looked back in at Blue who was looking around like a wolf scanning its new found territory. Kurama had turned around and was about to lunge at Skye.
"Catch ya later Blue, g' luck!" Skye evaded Kurama's grasp as she put one hand on the railing, lifted herself up, hopped over, and fell five stories. Blue figured she would just turn into a cat and land safely, she wasn't worried about her. She can run faster as a cat than Kurama as a human. There might be problems is he turned into a fox though, but she could figure something out on her own. Blue had bigger problems on her mind, even if she didn't show them physically. She barely noticed when Kuwabara slammed the apartment door also in pursuit of Skye.
"It seems like you have a problem now without her to help you." Yusuke quickly locked the terrace door with a number code that reminded Blue of the locks used on the lockers at school.
"Less than you think." Since he was closest, he locked the door similarly and the window was locked by Hiei.
"Or is that just what you're trying to make us think? You're probably tired from being under the stress of being found out, making your movements slower and more sluggish than normal." Hiei had his hand resting on the handle of his katana. Blue smirked at this.
"I'm faster than both of you put together. Besides, a sloth can outrun you." Hiei was obviously angered at this since he turned red from having his speed insulted. He dove at Blue from the window with a flying kick. She jumped off the TV set to the ground and tumbled a few feet before rolling onto her feet and standing up. He pulled out his katana and swung it at her chest, a little lower than her shoulders. Blue jumped up and flipped backwards. When they both came back into view for Yusuke, since they were moving as blurs, both boys were astonished.
"Now that's skills, Sloth." Blue smirked at him from where she stood at the tip of his katana. Her grey eyes taunted him as she bounced on it a couple times before he pulled it out from underneath her. She made as if she were going to run forward but instead put one foot on his forehead, stepped up, put her other foot on the wall behind him, and ran up the wall, across the ceiling, and jumped back down in front of him.
"Who are you calling a Sloth?" He spat at her venomously before lunging once again. This time he stabbed straight forward towards her solar plexus. She bent in half backwards as if doing the limbo.
"Who do you think I'm calling a Sloth? The only Sloth in this room, Sloth." Yusuke watched in wonder as to how she could be so flexible as she kept bending backwards until her body was folded in half and she grabbed her ankles from behind to keep her down as Hiei pulled back his sword at lightning speed and stabbed lower at her knees. She put her hands on the floor behind her heels and let her feet spring forward and up, putting her in a handstand.
While going through the position, she kicked Hiei under the jaw and knocked him to the ground. Her feet continued to move forward even one she was fully vertical upside down. Instead of waiting for her feet to hit the ground so she could stand back up, she bounced away from the floor, pushing her feet down while flipping in the air to face Hiei, who was still sprawled on the ground. He reached for his katana but Blue drop kicked it away from him.
"How the hell did you do that!" Yusuke's face had contorted into a freaked out expression. Normal people couldn't bend that way. She laughed at him as Hiei got to his feet while still trying to rub away the pain in his chin.
"It's magic." She smiled broadly at him and a couple of small fangs lingered on her lower lip. When she was younger, she worked as a contortionist for the circus of the sun, Cirque Du Solei, whenever they came to town. They had wanted her to travel with them but Blue refused to because she didn't want to leave her mother and Skye. She sighed and remembered the circus was coming to Tokyo in two weeks. She had to practice and stretch so she could be ready for them. Hiei mumbled something under his breath that no one heard clearly.
"Come again Sloth?" Blue quirked her head at him, eyeing him with obvious audacity as to repeat what he had said about her. She knew it was something crass about her, but she could manage to turn it against him. If he spoke it would be like shooting himself in the foot.
"I said I wish you could just go to hell." This wasn't quite the response Blue had been hoping for or expecting, so she just frowned and watched him tend to his fractured jawbone. He was a decent swordsman and probably wasn't beat often, if ever. She could tell by his fighting style that he wasn't used to the embarrassment of getting hurt, and not blowing it off like a small scratch because it was serious, or even that it was caused by a girl. She hurt his pride and it was all she could to help but wonder just how much his ego had been deflated in that one simple move.
"I've already been there believe it or not, sorry to disappoint Sloth, but you're just going to have to deal with it." She was not only referring to her not going to hell again, but also to having to handle his beat up body and pride. They stared at each other until Yusuke laughed nervously and broke them out of their trance-like state.
"Don't you think we should be fighting and trying to catch her before you can stare her down and throw insults at each other Hiei?" Blue smirked before diving into a sprint directly at Hiei. Yusuke was not of her concern and would not be until he made a move to threaten her. About five feet from Hiei, she did a forwards hand spring, flew over his head, and landed behind him. She planted one swift kick to the back of his knees but he was already out of the way of the oncoming offense as soon as she had begun the jump upwards.
She stayed in the position, somewhat stunned as to where he could have disappeared to so quickly without her seeing. She was crouching down close to the ground with both her hands on the tile on each side of the leg underneath her supporting all of her weight and the other thrown out from under her just to the side of where Hiei should have been.
He had grown tired of her acrobats and stunts and wised up to her fighting style, or so he thought. He thought her to be a bunch of skillfully put together acrobatic movements to make her opponent think he or she had no chance in beating her due to her sheer skill in the art of coordination. But after all, movement was just a bunch of muscles and nerves reacting together to make you go. He could strike just as quickly as she if not faster. But he was wrong.
There were still many things they had not discovered about her. She had a life, even though she was dead; she had a family, even though she was alone; she had talent and skills, even though she couldn't control them; she lived in a world of her own, even though she didn't fit in to them anywhere.
The point was that he wasn't about to guess her technique unless she told him, and judging by the situation of things, that's wasn't about to happen anytime soon. He landed a kick to the side of her right shoulder, the same side as the foot that was thrown out, and knocked her off balance. She hit the tile and rolled so as not to make the impact a head on collision but more of a brushing. She rolled to her feet and didn't even bother to look at where Hiei or Yusuke were located before jumping up against the wall and catching herself in the corner. She backed up into the corner on the ceiling and surveyed the room like a spider watching her prey and waiting for them to get caught by the stickiness of her web.
Yusuke was standing uselessly at the door with Hiei still standing where he had kicked Blue. She growled ferociously at him and the vibrations emanating from her throat could be felt a couple of apartments down the hall as the forks, knives, and spoons rattled against each other in the drawer they were kept in. Blue pushed out from the corner and completely onto Hiei. He wasn't expecting the move and had only a fraction of the time he had to think for her past moves before as she tackled him and brutally wrestled him with punches, teeth, and claws; needless to say, he didn't hold back on her.
There was a knock at the door, but it didn't stop either of the two from rolling around and hitting each other. Yusuke slowly turned around, wondering if maybe Kuwabara and Kurama had caught Skye, and opened the door a crack. He saw Kayko, Yukina, and Genkai standing in front of his door. He pushed it open a little wider to stick his head out and saw Jin, Touya, Kido, and Rinku.
(Forgot who they were? Well here you go!
Kido: stepped on Yusuke's shadow and paralyzed him when he challenged Yusuke to fight him and his other two friends in an empty lot and took him to the house of four dimensions.
Rinku: part of Team Rokuyukai, fought first in the Dark Tournament; master of the Serpent Yo-Yo, he looks small but kicked Kuwabara's ass)
"We heard you had a nasty brute in your home, so I took the liberty of taking an army with me to fight it." Genkai pushed the door open and everyone followed her inside, much to Yusuke's amazement.
"Kayko and Yukina? Why are you here? You can't fight, and you might get hurt too. Want to wait outside a bit while we get it under control? Then you can come back inside if you want." Yusuke faced the two girls who were in the kitchen making tea and cookies. Yukina was getting the hot water so Kayko turned to answer him.
"No, that's okay Yusuke. I think we'll be fine here in the kitchen. Yukina and I will make a snack so that when you finish fighting whoever is in your living room; you can have a small snack in case if you're hungry!" She seemed so pleased with herself that Yusuke didn't bother to argue with her as she got out a dish and say that the reason so many people were in the living room right now was so that they could help Yusuke and Hiei fight the small she-monster. He guided them into his living room.
Hiei was pinned to the ground and Blue punched him in the right cheekbone, purposely missing his jawbone so as to not crack it any further. His head snapped back and he looked about ready to tear Blue a new one. He grabbed her shoulders and flipped them, but lost his balance when Blue kicked herself away from him with the leg of the table as a support. They both tumbled, but in opposite directions until Hiei stood and flew towards Blue. He delivered a swift kick to her ribs but she grabbed his ankle and pulled it out from under him. He landed in heap on the floor next to her and she put three long scratches down the front of his chest. They bled through his black muscle shirt and even though it couldn't be seen, the stench of blood was hanging heavily in the room.
"Koenma never told us it was a lass, just a wee lass at that too." Jin floated in the air next to Touya and Genkai. He looked on at the fight and wondered just how they were supposed to fight her.
"She might be a small girl, but she sure did a number on Hiei." Touya sighed in desperation, his time was being wasted by being asked to fight a little girl no bigger than Hiei himself and probably no stronger. Hiei must have just been going easy on her.
"Hey now! What do you guys have against little people! Quit cracking on me just because I'm small too!" Rinku cried out as only Kido paid him any attention and tried to pacify the young demon.
"Relax Rinku; no one mentioned anything about you. We're talking about her. Although, they're both bloodied up pretty bad." He observed the damage done to both parties so far as the beaten and bruised bodies of Hiei and Blue continued to fight on, neither willing to accept the fatigue beginning to plague them.
"How can such a young little human girl hurt Hiei so badly? Is he sick or something?" Jin's brow furrowed as he tried to understand the situation.
"That is wrong Jin, she is not young, nor is she human. She is a vampire that is centuries old at best. We just can't tell she's a demon because she is capable of completely hiding her aura. Try to sense her. You wouldn't know she was in this room if you turned the lights out, let along guess that she's human." Genkai agreed with Touya after he finished and asked Yusuke what he knew about her so far.
"Um, she's half vampire and half ice demon. If you take off her right glove, her hand will burst into flames, but I don't know why. She's also really flexible, a contortionist I think she said. Eh, oh yeah! And there's a woman in her apartment with black hair and blue eyes, that's her mother. There's something wrong with her though. Skye told me she was in a coma once and woke up two years later a little strange in the head. That's all I think." He watched Genkai as she took in all this information and barked out orders like a general.
"The first thing we need to do is get her away from Hiei or they'll kill each other. Then we need to restrain her somehow." Rinku volunteered to hold her down with his yo-yos, but no one was too eager to get her away from Hiei. It was like putting your hand in a hungry dog's bowl; you'll just end up with your hand bitten and nothing accomplished as the dog goes on eating.
In the meantime though, Hiei had separated himself from her and made the blade of his katana light on fire. He made a move to slice down her middle, but Blue took the glove off her right hand and caught the blade. Her hand burst into flames as drops of blood dripped down her arm. Hiei jumped back and put away his katana as he looked in awe at her right hand along with everyone else.
"You failed to mention that Yusuke." Genkai glared at the boy that used to be her apprentice and wondered exactly what had inspired her to teach him. She forgot about him as Blue slipped her glove back on and the fire went out.
"I though you said you were an ice demon! Liar!" Hiei yelled at her in frustration as she glared back at him. Touya stepped forward to fight her, realizing Hiei's fire powers were of no use in a battle against fire. Although Hiei was able to use ice, he was already too weak.
"I am an ice demon Sloth; you just don't know how to recognize one because you're a sloth, Sloth." Hiei growled menacingly at her but she just blew him off with a few chuckles. Touya and Blue stood facing each other and took those precious moments to size each other up. Touya formed ice shards in his hands and threw a couple to test her abilities. She easily evaded them, caught one, and threw it back at him. He caught it and turned it back into energy.
"C'mon Snowman, is that the best you can do? I hate it when people hold back on me just because I'm a girl." Blue smirked as Touya immediately froze her feet to the ground and shot another round of ice shards at her. She took her glove off and her hand immediately burned in the fire. She placed it near her feet and melted as much ice as possible before springing backwards on her left hand and dodging the ice. She was careful not to touch anything with her right hand to avoid having the whole building go up in flames, but she kept the glove off and stuffed it in the back pocket of her pants.
"Hey now Snowman, that's an idea. If you can't hit your target when it's moving, just hold it down. I should give that a shot next time, you know? Just to get an idea of how it feels to be handicapped when it comes to fighting." She sneered at him and if she was a cat, she would have hissed with less than no appreciation for his actions.
"Touya's not handicapped, but your mother sure as hell is." Yusuke thought it was quiet, but it came out a lot louder than he had intended. He slapped a hand over his mouth and his eyes went wide. Blue slowly turned to faced him, head first then body.
"You know Detective, you're disgusting. I'm fighting for my life here, since it's obvious you have no concern for it, not like I do at least, while I'm worrying for my best friend and doing my best to stay alive so I can go find her and help her then come back to my apartment and take care of my mom and protect her from assholes like you so that she can live to see another day. And what do you do? Tell me she's an invalid? Do you think I don't know that already! Boy Detective, either you've got a lot of muscle to back that up, and let me suggest you get a lot bigger before you talk tough to me, or a whole lot of shit between your ears. I'm going to go with the latter so I won't feel as bad for your girlfriend when I'm strangling you with your intestines and hanging your bloody body out to dry with your pants and underwear in the terrace!" Her grey eyes turned arctic frigid as she glared hatefully at Yusuke. The others in the room weren't sure if they were more scared by Blue's threats or revolted by what Yusuke had said.
A moment of tension passed until Blue launched herself at Yusuke and slammed his body into the door behind him. She grabbed him by the neck and strangled him roughly. Rinku got out his yo-yos and aimed for Blue, but only hit the door when she pulled both her and Yusuke towards the window. She slammed his head through it; pieces of glass fell onto the tile ad into the grass outside. She pushed his head down and sharp fragments of broken glass pushed into and cut his neck on the bottom of the window frame.
"Roses are red." She pulled one arm back and shoved it up. A sickening pop was heard as she dislocated it. "Violets are black." She dislocated the other arm and Yusuke cried out in pain. "Go to hell." She pushed his neck hard into the broken glass. "And never come back." Just as she was about to shove his head forward and cut open the veins in his neck to let him bleed to death, she was stopped by a familiar feminine voice.
"Blue! Don't do it Blue! Stop it, please! Don't kill him Blue, don't do it. You can't do it Blue, you can't." The crazed psychotic look in her frozen eyes melted away as she listened to the voice and turned around to see who was speaking to her. Skye stood between Blue and the spirit detective. She looked at Blue sadly but stayed put where she was.
"Let him go Blue, don't kill him. Don't do it, you don't want to. I know Blue, it feels like your whole life has been building up to this point, this climax, but this isn't it Blue. This isn't it. There's something better out there Blue, trust me. You can do better. Please, let him go Blue, don't kill him." Skye stood perfectly still save for the weak breaths she was slowly taking. Blue looked away from Skye and glared down at the boy at her mercy. Her eyes turned steel grey as all emotion passed from her.
"And why shouldn't I? I have every right to kill him, even though I won't. I'll show him what it feels like to be disabled. It's nothing to make fun of. He'll regret ever meeting me. He'll wish he had never called me that night and asked me to save his life. He'll never forget who I am, not after this, I won't let him. I'll cut open his throat and let him bleed until he's on the brink of death. He'll be just barely there when I seal the veins just as he passes out. Judging on how much blood he loses will depend on my next action. If it was an extreme amount and I was not careful, I'll turn him into a vampire by mixing my blood with his.
"If he survives, then he'll get to stay human, but the insufficiency of blood will make him anemic. Then I'll strangle him, taking away his air supply for longer than two minutes. This is all the time I need to disable him. If the brain doesn't get enough oxygen, certain areas will begin to stop working and shut down on their own. Hey Detective, how do you think it would be like having to live without the memory of your family, friends, or yourself? What if you couldn't recognize Kayko anymore? How about Kuwabara? You guys are close, seems to me you would prefer to keep your memories of him. But after all, even if you do lose your memories of him, you couldn't miss him because you'd never know he existed. You wouldn't know the difference anyways.
"I think this would end up hurting your friends and family, the people around you, more than it would hurt you. Remember how dear old alcoholic mom acted and felt when you died? Can you imagine if you were stuck in a wheelchair? Poor Kayko would be stuck having to baby-sit you since I doubt your mom would do anything. In spite of how much she may or may not love you, she is careless. She did leave you in the apartment alone with the window open when some kids thought it was funny to set your apartment on fire. You could have burned to death because of her, just because she was too drunk to lock the windows. Good old mom, always there for you, huh?
"If it wasn't for Kayko, you'd be a pile of ashes right now. Remember when you were stuck in bed and asleep and you had 24 hours to convince someone in their dreams to kiss you so that you could live again, or you would die? Remember how you went to mom, Kuwabara, and Kayko? Think back on it, how it only made mother dearest get even drunker. If it wasn't for Kayko, your first kiss would have been with Kuwabara, if he ever mustered up the courage to follow his dreams, and let me help you with that if there was any doubt; he wouldn't have kissed you. If weren't for Kayko, you would never have been kissed and once again, you would be dead right now, stuck in a coffin under the ground and blocked out of your drunken mother's mind, left behind by Kuwabara, and forgotten by Kayko. I think you'd be hurting Kayko the most here, don't you agree?
"I think it's time you say your prayers Yusuke. Pray that Kayko will forget you easily. Pray your mother won't realize you've changed. Pray that Kuwabara will be able to move on. Pray that maybe some day or another, you won't be stuck paralyzed in a wheelchair and maybe you'll have the grace of god and be given the ability to move your arm so that you can grab the gun and pull the trigger on your miserable life. But most of all, pray for those whose lives you've ended or made miserable in their own ways that you've blown off and not cared or given even two shits about.
"Because they're the ones whose grace you will need to get into heaven. They are the ones you will need on your side in order to live the lie of eternal ethereal peace you've been told about. They are the one whose forgiveness you should seek. They are the ones that see death and birth and love and hatred as only to similar to distinguish. They are the ones who have felt the pain and suffering that you have caused them with your careless actions. They are the ones who must find it in their heart to forgive you for your sins. They are the ones who are going to have to look past the rough edges and see into the innocence that lies beneath. I am the one who will damn you to hell Yusuke Urameshi."
Her voice was cold and if it could be something touchable, it would have been a frozen blade of steel. She got a better grip on Yusuke's head and neck and was about to pull back when Skye shouted out to her to stop. Blue froze just in the nick of time as Skye burst into tears. Sharp waves raked her body as she sobbed loudly for everyone to hear. "You're being irrational Blue; can't you just consider what you're about to-" Skye was cut off when she fell to the ground unconscious. Blue had telepathically lifted a vase from the counter and dropped it on her head. A small blue demon appeared next to her head. He shook his fist at Blue and yelled at her furiously.
"Goddamn you Blue! Let the kid go already! Look at him! Look! Don't you think the people he lives with will miss him no matter how much he does or doesn't pray, or are you just a dumb blue-headed demon!" The little demon only stood at about four inches, but was able to make his voice loud enough for everyone in the room to hear him speak, or yell, at her.
"Go away Jyaki. I'm a busy demon these days, you know? I've got matters to deal with that don't include you." Jyaki huffed indignantly and stomped in his place.
"I was just trying to help Blue; you're being a thickheaded, blue-haired idiot. Sorry I don't want you to go to hell when all this is over and you kill him." Jyaki crossed his arms over his chest but didn't go anywhere far. Blue growled in annoyance.
"I am not about to let him go. Nobody is about to stop me. I dare any of you to try." She glared around the room slowly, letting her cold, dead eyes stare deep into the souls of each person there. The lights flickered off and on for a couple moments before going out completely. There was the sound and cold chill of wind as the lights flickered back on. Only this time, Blue was no longer in the room.