Inulover: Yay! Reviews! (Does happy dance) of course I had to threaten to not update to get them - . - Oh well. I got them and that's all that matters (smiles)
Kurama: quit boring them they're not here to hear you ramble.
Inulover: I hate when you're right - . - Anyways review responses are at the bottom again. Enjoy.
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Bright emerald eyes blearily opened as their bearer slowly pushed himself up from the black flooring. They gazed around the emptiness of nothing but a pit of black, the only light coming from their owner's bright golden shadow, as strange as that seemed; a black hole that produced shadows of light.
'This doesn't make sense,' Kurama thought, 'How can I be in the place of my dreams when I'm awake?' he looked around again, knowing all the while that it was futile.
"I see you're finally awake my little pet," a smug voice called from the darkness. Kurama instinctively spun around, looking for the source of the voice, Yukita's voice.
"Show yourself!" Kurama demanded crossly. At the call of his words a cylindrical light cascaded upon a figure identical to himself as suddenly as if somebody had turned on a light switch. Kurama eyed his twin with wide eyes, "What are you?" despite his steely expression his voice couldn't help but hold a hint of fearful wonderment.
"What am I? Come now, my little fox, what do you think becomes of a demon once they're killed?" a sneer spread across Yukita's face, "It seems I've over estimated you're intelligence."
"What are you up to Yukita?" The words were growled out menacingly, showing clearly the spite and impatience he held for the spider youkai.
The taunting sneer grew to a toothy grin. It was more then clear who had the upper hand in this situation and Kurama hated it. He knew only that the demon had possessed him, that much was blatantly obvious. He didn't know, however, how she stood in front of him in his form or what she planned on doing with him. Possessions were one of the few things that Kurama lacked sufficient knowledge of and he cursed himself for it.
"Why Kurama, you wound me," replied the cheap innocent voice, "What makes you think I'm up to something?" she cackled, "Give me some credit, I'm smarter then you think. I'm glad you're not though. 'I don't want to worry him'," she mocked in a high voice. "Isn't that what you were thinking before? By trying to protect your lover you only ended up injuring him." Kurama's face went pale.
"What!?"
"Relax, he's still alive, for now anyways. I'm still dead set on his dying by his lovers hands." she smirked.
"I'll never hurt him!"
"You misunderstand. If you haven't noticed, I'm in control of your body. I will be killing him, but his last vision before he dies will be that of his lover murdering him."
'No,' Kurama squeezed his eyed shut.
"Yes," she answered his thoughts. Kurama looked back up. "We're in your mind and I am able to read whatever you are thinking in that pretty little head of yours." The image began to fade away, "I wouldn't try to think of a way to escape my grasp, I'll know about it if you do." With a lingering maniacal laugh she was gone, leaving Kurama to drop to his knees in horror.
'What can I do now?'
The alley way was nearly pitch black, Yukita only made her way through because of her keen senses and the tiny slivers of moonlight penetrating the small towers. The web dome glittered like a sheet of metal in the moonlight as she made her way in through the small hole.
Yukita knowingly glided through the veil of blackness to the back wall and crouched down, searching for something. She found a weak spot and began to dig; cursing the two thin arms she had in replacement of her eight strong legs. Finally the earth broke and she jumped down the hole, landing in a dark tunnel. The squeaking and squealing of tiny baby spiders rang through the passage like a high-pitched whistle. Yukita quickly found her way to the chamber of which she was seeking. The cavern was large enough to hold a small house and was brightly lit. The area was littered with spiders of all sizes.
Thousands of glaring red eyes turned upon the unwelcome figure, two of her eldest children began to close in on her, hissing like cats. Yukita merely stared them down. "Tohru, Yutaka, I expected better of you. Don't you recognize your own mother?"
"Do you take us for fools imposter!?" the female, Tohru, screamed.
"Our mother wouldn't choose such a human form," the male growled in an attempt at backing up his sister.
"I've seen worse. You should be thankful your mother doesn't slit your throats right now for your ignorance," a deep masculine voice called out.
"Father?" Tohru looked back questioningly.
"Welcome back, Yukita."
Yukita smirked as she walked passed her dumbfounded children, "Yes I'm back Aracnus."
"Did you get your revenge?" Yukita scowled at her mate. The male was extremely larger then Yukita herself, even in her spider youkai form. She felt almost unnerved by the demon almost as gigantic as a trailer of a large delivery truck and 10ft in length.
"No I didn't," she said coldly, "Because you sent Shin. Possibly the most idiotic of all the demon race!"
"Mother?" Yutaka asked quietly, "Where is Shin?"
"He's dead. He was no match for the fire demon." The off-spring went silent at their mother's words and mourned their brothers' death.
"So Shin was too weak, eh? Apparently I underestimated our enemy."
"You did so greatly, Aracnus."
"Allow me to avenge our brothers' death!"
"Tohru, you dare raise your voice to me?" Yukita stated angrily, glaring at her daughter who backed up slightly, not wishing to incur her mother's wrath.
"Please, let me get revenge as well as Tohru. He was the youngest from our egg. It is our duty…"
"It is your duty to obey your mother! Yutaka, the both of you show disobedience, shall I teach you a lesson!?"
"No mother, we are sorry," Tohru answered quickly, trying to hide her fear of one of their mother's beatings.
"Yes, we are sorry but… you understand our wanting to fight… You must."
"Yes, but this one shall be my kill. You two will get your chance for a fight soon enough."
"We understand, don't we Tohru?"
"Yes."
"Good, now take your leave, your father and I have matters to attend to."
"Yes, mother," they replied in unison, backing out of the room with the younglings following until they were out of earshot from their parents. Tohru and Yutaka muttered to themselves.
"They don't get it! He was our egg-mate. Mother can't expect us to just sit around!"
"Yutaka, what else can we do? Zeta, Nakano, and Inuki won't help us, you know that."
"Yes, all three of them saw Shin as a weakling." Yutaka looked to his sister, "And Shins not the first they've slaughtered. They are the ones that killed Usagi."
"He wasn't even a year old," Tohru responded, sounding disgusted. The pair walked into the chamber given to them and their three other egg-mates.
Egg-mate as the term suggests, is what the spider youkai call their brothers' and sisters that were born from the same egg as them. A single egg sack could have anywhere from five to nine egglings at a time. The terms of oldest and youngest were given out by how fast the spiders grew once hatched, even though all were the same age. In the life span of a spider youkai a female could lay hundreds of eggs but only one at a time. Never could there be more then one group of egg-mates of the same age.
"You two have seen mother I take it." Zeta spoke to her brother and sister as she entered the chamber with her brothers' Inuki and Nakano behind her.
"Yes, because we were guarding the young ones." Tohru eyed her sister distastefully. "And you were supposed to be there with me. Be grateful that Yutaka took your place while you decided to go male watching no doubt, eh, Zeta?"
"At least I'm looking! I want to mate! I surely don't want to be unmated like you. To think my elder sister is not mated yet." Tohru head-butted Zeta in the side and threw Zeta on the ground.
"And as your elder sister you should show respect! You vermin!" Zeta growled at Tohru's words and her brother's laughter.
"Damn you!" Zeta flipped her self back up and attempted to ram her sister back. The latter stood up on her back for legs, coming back down and pounding Zeta into the ground with her front four. Tohru shook her head.
"Such disrespect," she mumbled with distaste at her sister.
Inuki and Nakano were rolling on the floor with laughter at this point, "Bested again, eh sis?"
"Shut up Inuki!" Zeta growled as she pushed herself back up. Nakano smirked at her.
"Play your cards right and you could become their favorite in place of Shin. You're the youngest now ya know."
"Don't you dare put me in the same rank as that weakling!" and she added in with a smug voice, "That's worse then being unmated like Tohru."
"You need to get smacked around some more, Zeta?" Tohru replied coolly.
"Hmph!" the youngest stormed out of the room.
"Don't go bad mouthing your brother Nakano!" Yutaka snapped. Inuki grinned cheekily, displaying his large white fangs and small pointy teeth.
"Why shouldn't he? Mom and Dad don't give a shit," he said in an arrogant voice that made Yutaka hiss a warning to his younger brothers causing both to jump and back away slightly.
"You don't scare us Yutaka," Nakano said stiffly.
"Really? Might be more convincing if you weren't shaking. You three need to learn where you stand with us," a glaring Tohru replied. The two demons already shaken from their brother scampered out of the room, not wanting to take on both of their elder siblings.
"That forms revolting Yukita," Aracnus noted, looking the figure up and down. "Not the worst but still revolting none the less. Look at this, only four limbs? And it's so scrawny looking."
"Trust me; this form could have been much worse. And besides, I find this form rather attractive, considering what it is."
"Why not kill it? You can do better." Yukita laughed at her mate.
"I need this form for my revenge. Then of course, I have other plans for it. This boy is going to help me get my body back."
"You could use any form for that. What's so special about him?"
"This is the fire demons mate." Aracnus smirked,
"You are pure evil."
"Thank you."
It was late, the sun had set and the street lights were glowing happily. Every so often the sound and lights of a passing car would snag the fire demons attention from his tree, pulling his thoughts with them before the car speed away, losing its hold on his thoughts. Hiei would once again be left with his thoughts of Kurama. He had tried many fruitless attempts and locating his lovers Ki but, he thought sadly, it was of no use.
Hiei pulled his knees to his chest, sighing into his arms, "I should have made him tell me what was going on. This could have been avoided if I had known."
"Self pity will not help the fox demon," an old voice said casually, causing Hiei to jump up, hand on the hilt of his katana, ready to attack.
"Who are you?" he growled to the old silver haired youkai sitting a branch above him.
Must you be so hostile, Hiei?" The old mans form faded out of sight like a hologram, Hiei watched the spot wide-eyed. The old youkai re-appeared behind Hiei and the fire demon struck his sword sideways through the strangers arm straight to his shoulder, the demon only chuckled, a small amused smile playing on his face as the well kept blade did nothing.
"What the hell are you?"
"An acquaintance of Yoko Kurama's. Oh, and just to mention, I'm not here in body, merely spirit, your attacks will do nothing to me." Hiei sheathed his katana, knowing these words to be right.
"Who are you?" Hiei repeated
"My name is Ayama, but you may call me Aya." Hiei raised an eyebrow.
"Aya? He's never mentioned any 'Aya's' before."
"I don't suppose he has. We only met on his latest trip to spirit world." Aya's carefree smirk faded, "I would like to help you reclaim your Yoko from the demons sticky web of mind control."
"How?"
Ayama reached into the inner pocket of his yellow tunic, pulling out a golden spider pendent on a fragile looking golden chain. It was the finished product of what Aya had started even before he had personally met Kurama. He held it out for Hiei to take, Hiei eyed the item carefully. Aya nodded for Hiei to take it.
The fire demon turned the pendent between his fingers, eyeing the ancient looking kanji written on the belly of the spider. "It's a sutra spell for possessions," Aya pointed out, "It will not dispel the demon but it will hold her at bay for Kurama to have control over his own body until I can help further."
"What do you want me to do with it? I don't know where Kurama is."
"Just hold onto it, Hiei, it will come in handy soon enough."
"Hn," Hiei slipped the item into a hidden pocket on his cloak. "Care to tell me how you know my name?"
"I know many things my little fire demon," Aya laughed, "All will be explained in time." The form faded out again like it had before, leaving only his cryptic words behind.
"What will be explained in time?" Hiei looked down as a piece of paper floated down to land on his branch. He read over the loopy writing:
Remember my name; you will need my assistance in the future.
…………………………….(again no indents allowed)-Aya-
"Hn, old man," Hiei put his hand in his pocket and slumped against the tree. He fingered the cold golden object and he couldn't extinguish the light of hope that rose in his heart, making it beat faster. If this could help Kurama then he was more then willing to try it.
Back in the cells of spirit world prison Ayama smirked, "I wish you luck," he whispered to the air.
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Inulover: and so ends that chapter. Sorry it was a little slow but the next chapter will have a fight in it. If you can't guess between whom then you need to think harder (smiles) here are review answers.
Volpi Di Spirito: Yay! Glad you liked the fight scene (smiles) I aim to please. Hehe. I did make sure to have Yukita call him a blind idiot though. Lol. No, the second one didn't count as new. If I thought I wouldn't get many then it would have counted though. Lol. I don't want to discontinue any of my stories but I want reviews too. Hope ya liked this one.
Nightshadow131: you're right; I should have added more detail. I re-read it after I got your review. I was trying to make the fight scenes go a little smoother is all, instead of telling every last move. I assumed the readers could tell when someone was attacking someone else; maybe I shouldn't have assumed so much you think? Hmmm. Glad you still liked it though. Glad your not mad, though I still haven't reviewed, I really have a lot to catch up on huh? As far as my StS fic goes it will be posted definitely on AdultFanFiction . net possibly on media miner but that sight is soooo ridiculous! It's still gonna be a while for that but if you like I can e-mail you the link or let you know when it's up.
MikuSamu: that's what I'm hoping for, I loss people other wise, lol (smile) oh, you wanna know why the whole Kurama learning relationship lessons is going so smoothly? Because I didn't even realize I was doing it, lol. But yes, you can expect more tantalizing events (smiles) (pretty words) lol.
Dragonflyr: it's nice seeing people who read the first one reviewing. I have yet to see the three people that asked me to write more reviewing though, I'm gonna have ta go hunt them down, lol. Yeah? Well your not the only one that likes to torture Bishi's. you read my first one. Lol. Glad ya like it.
Skyla3: that's cool. And just for you I'm gonna try to work in some more torturing for ya. Actually as I was thinking about your review it gave me a great idea to make the plot thicker and torture Kurama more.(cackles evilly)
Yoko Sayakka: if you start throwing stuff let me know so I can grab a helmet. Lol here ya go, hope it was worth it.
Youko Kara: yay! Pretty reviews! Thank you!
Mea( ): how could I not update now? Hope you enjoyed it.
Topazkitsune: (smiles) now I'm all happy! Yay! Glad you like my writing. Doesn't mean ya can't complain? Only if you've completely abandoned the story can you not complain, lol.
Inulover: was that so hard? Can we keep this up please with out me having to threaten with no updates? Thank for all the wonderful reviews guys! I'm all happy again and working on chapter seven so keep reviewing.
KuramaHiei: either that or we hear about it.
Ja ne
