Silverwing013: Same disclaimer. Don't own it, just a fan of it. And then I take my time to type down all my crazy stories that come from it.
'JOURNAL TWO: the early days of yoko kurama'
I've been thieving with Kuronue for many years and our closest call was just a few days ago. It may have been completely over if not it had been for a red headed human. Can you believe that? Me, Yoko, listen to a human? It's hard to say if it was real, but no harm came of it. We were planning on stealing a pretty little mirror to add to our thieving collection and the night before, the red head human came to me in a dream….
Trees, many trees and plants. Mist covered the area, but was slowly blown away to revel a figure standing in front of me. The figure slowly came into view as I regarded them warily. An odd pair of shoes covered their feet, magenta pants and a matching shirt, delicate features with stunningly long red hair. Their green eyes regarded me the same way as my pure gold eyes, but I found the green held the slightest speak of gold.
I pulled out my rose whip, the stranger doing the same. It was a human if I smelt right. Most of my demon smell covered the area so the smell was difficult to find. "Why do you come here?" I asked without emotion.
"To warn you," the voice echoed through the woods type of area.
"I don't need a human's warning," I crossed my arms lightly, starring the human down.
The human just starred back as well. Ignorant human, wasn't he? The human gave a quirking smile at me. "I'm not quite human Yoko Kurama."
I uncrossed my arms at the name. "Explain how you know my name human and get to the point of why you are here."
"I am you, several years down the road. Thanks to having no partner, I was killed by a bounty hunter. This will happen to you if you do not head my warning. Fix the chain on Kuronue's pendent."
I glared at the human, tightening my grip on the rose whip. "And if I don't?"
The red haired human shrugged his shoulders, gesturing to himself.
"Like I would dip down to the low of a human," I pulled the rose whip in front of me.
The human stood still, almost relaxed-like, holding his own rose whip. Slowly, he raised it up. "You must believe me. I have no time to explain things now."
"Trust a human?" I said sarcastically. "I'd rather die human. Now leave from here."
"I am you from the future," the red head spoke, with his eyes flashing gold. "You hated your mother as a child didn't you? Your father was a thief himself, though not nearly as good. He died from thieving when you were but a child. Due to your hate towards your mother, you yourself took off to learn how to thieve. Your first major partner was Yomi. Yomi wasn't such a great partner in foresight, was he now Yoko Kurama?"
My eyes glared daggers at the human, "Shut your mouth!"
A short figure dropped down in between them before I could attack however. "Hn. Leave foxes to their devices and it takes forever for them to agree."
The red headed human lowered his rose whip at the sight of the new person. I sniffed the air slightly. Demon. Fire demon, I thought. What was with the huge glowing eye on this fire demon's forehead? "Hiei," the human muttered. "How much time do we have left?"
The fire demon, Hiei, turned his head toward the human. "Not much fox. Only a short amount of time before our time in the past is up. Koenma could figure this out any minute. Showing yourself the future might shorten this little chat up."
"That'll only waste more energy on your part Hiei. Too much energy," the human shook his head. "I'll show him. I mean, myself. Irani, this is confusing."
The human stepped towards me, the fire demon left for a tree branch. With each step the human took, the more he changed. Red hair faded into sleek silver. The face grew longer. His height became taller. Shirt disappeared for two white clothes. The same magenta pants changing white as well. The human stopped right in front of me, his eyes now completely gold.
I blinked at the person in front of him. It was I.
"Need I do or say more?" His double told him, dangling a pendent in front of my eyes. Kuronue's pendent I noticed with faint shock. Broken. Kuronue's broken pendent.
"Come on Kurama," the fire demon spoke up from his tree branch. "I'm missing a certain event in Ice Maiden World. My birth."
"Course," the double spoke. "Wouldn't want you to die from that fall would we now? It isn't everyday a Forbidden Child can go back and save themselves."
"Shut it! Your past self is listening. Hurry it up," the fire demon flirted off.
The double looked back over at me with the same golden eyes. He seemed to be pondering something. "Look me up in the future without my demon blood if you heed my warning. Catch."
The double tossed Kuronue's broken pendent over at Yoko, who caught it with his eyes still trained on the would be human. "Anything else, 'Kurama'?"
The double was already running swiftly away in to the misty fog.
"Keep an eye out for bamboo traps!"
Keep an eye out for bamboo traps
Keep an eye out for bamboo traps
Keep an eye out for bamboo traps"AAAHHHHHHHH!" I shot up from sleep. A distinct thump echoed from above in the attic.
For such a cool night as it was, I found my palms and face sweating. I found my eyes immediately scanning for any type of demon whom could have planted that dream. Nothing. But not nothing. Raising a closed fist to eye level, I opened it to find Kuronue's pendent. Broken. The pendent faded and shiny, sparkling words formed on the inside of my open palm.
Yoko
Heed my warning
Shuichi Minamino: aka 'Kurama'
The shiny words disappeared from my palm. I starred blankly at the wall in front of me from my hand-done hammock, made especially from vines. Loud footsteps thudded from down the hallway and Kuronue along with several members of the clan burst inside the room.
"What was with that dead waking scream Yoko?"
My eyes kept trained on the wall, starring blankly. If I did have Kuronue fix his pendent, it really wouldn't harm anything. But why was this message so important for something so trivial. But trivial can be the making or breaking point.
Turning toward my partner I finally spoke, "Give me your pendent."
Kuronue backed up a few steps, a hand reaching up for his pendent. Several gasps were held from clan members at my request. "My pendent? Why?"
"Look, Kuronue, just hand it over," I got up making a grab for the hand around the pendent.
"Yoko!" Kuronue whined jumping out of my reach. "My pendent! My pendent! Mine!"
SNAP!
"Now look what you did!" Kuronue dived for the falling pendent.
"Now Kuronue," I pleaded my partner. "That's been the fourth time in the last day that your pendent has broken. We need to bring it in and fix it before we steal that mirror."
"I'm not letting a stranger touch my pendent! What if they steal it? Melt it down into nothing? Sell it on the black market? No one is going to take my pendent from me. I'd rather fix it myself."
"May I remind you of your past work with mechanics?" A couple clan members snickered in remeberance.
Kuronue paused. "Oh…yeah…Well, no one is laying a finger on my pendent."
Many many long long looooong hours later, I had finally agreed to Kuronue letting go of his pendent to have the links heated back together by a young fire demon nearby. The young fire demon however found it very hard to work on the pendent.
"Careful with that you know!" Kuronue pointed wildly at the pendent as the fire demon was ready to heat a link in the chain.
"grrrr…I need my attention for other things bat, unless you want me to burn this pretty little necklace into nothing."
Kuronue attempted to snatch the pendent away from the young fire demon. "You're not burning my pendent you spiky haired demon!"
"Hn!"
"Kuronue, let him do his job."
"I am if he wouldn't try to burn my pendent and insult it as a necklace!"
"Kuronue….he wasn't insulting it…he's saying to give him room to work or he will burn it. Why don't we stand outside by the door?"
"No! I don't trust this fire demon! I'm standing right here."
"Fine…you can go back to work now."
The young fire demon glared and nodded at me. I spotted Kuronue dancing around a bit as the fire demon lit a small flame up around a bad link on the chain. Several seconds later….
"Are you sure you know what you're doing?"
The fire demon glared.
"Kuronue. Be quiet. Stay still. And leave the poor guy alone."
"But Yoko…it's my pendent that could be in danger here."
I shook my head. "For all your great qualities at thieving, no one would believe you're being such a drama about this."
"While as it only takes one mention of your mother to send you over the edge!"
"Don't you bring my mother into this!"
"Well it's only fair if you call me a drama about my pendent!"
"It's not as if you don't have your own family issues!"
"Yeah, well, your face looks funny whenever I mention your mother!"
"It does not," I said through clenched teeth. Kuronue burst out laughing.
"Hn! If I may interrupt, your necklace chain is fixed. Pay me for my trouble."
"It's a pendent you fire demon. Not a necklace. Wait…you're done already?"
"That's right. That fox kept you distracted for a while so you wouldn't bother me with your troublesome whines over your precious necklace."
Kuronue turned on me. "You tricked me? I feel so hurt Yoko."
I smiled crafty. "Pay the demon."
Kuronue snatched his pendent from him, searching the chain for any weak links.
"Hn," the young fire demon paused on the way out. "Have any of you two heard of any news on the ice maiden kidnappings?"
"There was two new ones just the other night. Sisters and I think they were Kori and Kari. They haven't caught the kidnappers yet but I heard that the kidnappers could be a human that's been selling several gems lately on the black market."
"Hnnnn. Thanks fox."
"Why?" I asked with a quirking smile.
The fire demon paused again, pondering the question a while. "My mate and daughter are ice maidens."
I frowned. "A fire demon and an ice maiden? And wouldn't you have two daughters?"
"Hn. The second was a boy. After being pronounced a Forbidden Child, they through him from the cliff soon after his birth last night. He's most likely dead. I was banned from the area myself shortly after."
I stopped and starred at the fire demon in front of me. "Forbidden Child? May I ask on what his name might have been?"
"Hiei. It was the name of my father. A name that would have made him feel wanted somewhere despite his origins. My payment bat," Kuronue paid him and the fire demon left abruptly from the room leaving a chill down my back.
"Strange fire demon. Hey Yoko, does this link look broken to you?"
Strange happenings. The coincidence of that fire demon being the very father of this Hiei character was slim. Even odder. In my dream, Hiei was much older. Wait. That Hiei was from the future, so there would be an age difference. But anyway, the thieving of that mirror went by without a hitch. I'll be placing an article from The Demon Tribune below.
FORBIDDEN CHILD: MISSING
The Forbidden Child from the Koorime was dropped last night from the cliff. Upon investigation by a few curious members of the Black Blade wolf pack, there was no sign of the Forbidden Child below. Many guess that the same person as the one kidnapping the Ice Maidens has taken the Forbidden Child. Kori and Kari have not been found as of late and neither have the four others before them. "Is it possible," the leader of the Black Blade wolf pack asked, "that this Forbidden Child has also been taken? Our pack smelled two things out of place in the area. The burnt scent of ash and the smell of roses. But then, that could mean anything. Did the Ice Maidens really through the Forbidden Child off the cliff, or perhaps that be a lie to cover the fact that they kept the Forbidden Child?" This is a fact The Demon Tribute will search out the answer to. On keeping an eye out for the Forbidden Child, the demon community is warned that rumor has it that it is a young male fire demon. If anyone in the community spots the Forbidden Child in their area, please refrain from going close to it and contact an official member of your community's upper village members. Thank you for your cooperation.
Silverwing013: Hummm. Gee, I wonder whatever happened to that Forbidden Child? Easy question, right? To the reviewers:
Tsume-Hiei luver- The human's names won't come up until later. Sorry mi amigo. And Hiei's sword? Sure, Yusuke was going to grab Hiei's weapon from him and then not have him get pissed off at him. sarcastic there> Honestly, I thought it would be boring to have Hiei just sitting there, glarring around at people.
Danieru Lee- Sorry about the sickness. And any confusion you might have had I hope got cleared up at school.
erosgirl- Yusuke as the bad guy...hmmm...isn't he already kind of bad? But thanks.