Chapter 2
Hiei was stunned that he never knew this information. After all, he could read minds. He was the one who should have known before everyone else.
Then he stopped to ponder, what did Keiko mean it was a 'her?' The only way a female demon could come to the human world was if there was a tournament being held.
Genkai: She isn't too good Yusuke. There isn't anything else I can do for her. Botan is on her way though, she may be able to help Keiko far better than I can, but nothing is certain. She is very weak.
Genkai sighed.
Hiei: So who is going to tell us who this demon is? Or are we to be left in the dark?
Kurama: I will start. This is not going to be any short story though, this is going to start about one-thousand years ago. So I suggest that some of us stop uselessly drooling over people, pay attention, and get comfortable.
Kurama stared right at Kuwabara.
Genkai: Kurama, if you ever feel the need to stop I can take over.
Kurama: Thank you Genkai, but I will be just fine.
Genkai: Alright.
Kurama: More than one-thousand years ago everything was chaos. No one knew if they were human or spirit or demon. Then everyone was finally divided into camps and it was all settled, sort of. Humans thought they were superior to everyone and the spirits and demons felt the same. Then one day, as the sun began to set a small spirit, no bigger than a four year old human, conquered all of the demons' camps. They were so surprised that they had no time to defend themselves.
The demons were now under his ruling. He had only humans to capture but they would be as easy, he knew this. They would have found out about the attack on the demons and would be armed and ready to fight.
So he planned an attack on them also but not of the same tactics. He had an army charge the fortress in broad daylight. The humans thought this was incredibly rash. However, they were unaware of the danger lurking below them. While there was an army in front of them there was also one underneath them.
The spirit was leading the other half of his army to attack inside the fortress. There were conditions on this part though. They were only allowed to take prisoners and could not, in anyway what so ever, harm the women and children. There was an exception to this rule, they could take a full grown man's life only if necessary.
He gained victory in one day. After that he separated the humans, demons, and spirits into the three worlds we know today as the human, demon, and spirit world.
After appointing a leader to all of the worlds, the spirit seated himself as the ruler of the rulers. This angered all of the leaders, for they wanted to be there own worlds with their own set of rules. So they planned an attack on the spirit. They were successful only because of the human. She was willing to go to the demon world as queen if they could win the battle. So in other words, she sold her soul. That was their only way to victory, if the human ruler would sell her soul for the power to defeat him.
When they claimed victory she requested that she remain on Earth until she was ready to die but the demon would not listen and took her immediately.
The human race fell into despair until finally the lands were divided and separate kingdoms were
created. Then they were forced to help each other in times of war. The human race lost all knowledge of the other worlds.
The queen pleaded that she return to Earth and restore order. The king would never allow it. Instead the queen was thrown into a demon cell until she realizes her so called mistake for trying to help humans.
Before she was thrown into the cell, she secretly bore a child and gave birth in the cell. When the child was born, her father was overjoyed to know he had a daughter and was prepared to free the mother until he heard the prophecy. That his child would destroy him.
Naturally he could not let this happen so he order the child to eternal imprisonment. However, when the time came for him to banish his daughter he couldn't do it and the ruler of the spirit world snatched the child in the dead of night, releasing her on Earth in a human mother's womb.
When the king arose and went to see his daughter he couldn't believe she was gone and sent out ever demon in his realm to find her. He was unsuccessful at finding her before she was born.
She was born exactly one hour before me. We met in the park when we were 2 and immediately became friends. Then she became popular and I didn't, but that didn't matter to her. "We will always be friends, no matter what happens" is what she told me. I was so happy and we went to our usual secret spot, a hole inside a willow tree that went all the way to the top. When we got there I gave her a single red rose and she returned a gift as a kiss on the cheek. We sat for a while just talking about school and teachers and how we would like to travel the world.
She would always say that it wasn't fair that I was 1 hour younger but yet three inches taller. When we came down we were attacked. They had finally found her and when they tried to kill me she shoved me out of the way and took the blast head on. I didn't think she had survived but.... apparently she has. That was only when we were about 6 so it was a long time ago and it's hard to remember everything exactly the way it happened.
Kuwabara: I got two questions, why did they let her come back and what's her name?
Kurama: The first of your questions I cannot answer but the answer to your second is, Aiyka.
Hiei: What!? You were the boy with her that day? I never would have guessed that! I didn't think that anyone else would remember her even though I can barely. Just her face and her name.
Kurama: Yes, I knew that you knew. I didn't want to alarm you.
Yusuke: Now I have a question, what do they want with Keiko and Yukina?
Hiei: Yes, I am curious as well.
Kurama: I do not believe that they have any intent of going after Yukina. They just want Keiko, and will do anything they have to too get her.
Yusuke: Why the hell for?
Kurama: She must have something that they need. You remember the Netherworld demons of course,
well they were a group of demons who broke off from the Demon World and began an even more powerful kingdom, as we discovered. Well there is another break off a demon world that no one knows the name to unless you are taken there because once there the captive can just give up hope. The only way known to get there would crush anyone unless they were of that kind or accompanied by that type of creature. Well, in order for them to become all powerful, they must have four jewels. It is said that they lie within humans with special powers beyond our wildest dreams and that this world already has three of them. Keiko must have the fourth and final one.
Yusuke: So what can we do? Can't we just get it out of her?
Kurama: No. The only way to do that would be to kill her or almost anyway. The gem appears as a last resort to help the jewel carriers. When these creatures attacked, they nearly killed her waiting for the stone. I'm afraid the only thing that saved her was the stone.
Yusuke: Well she is alive so what's the problem? At least she didn't die!!
Kurama: Because now they know she has the stone and will do whatever it takes to get it!!!
Genkai: They reach the limit of their powers when the moon is unseeable. Meaning when there is a lunar eclipse or a new moon they will be nearly unbeatable. However, if they get the stone there will be no stopping them.
Keiko stirs and awakens to find Yusuke staring down at her.
Keiko: Is Yuki... na allll... ri.. ght?
Yusuke: Yes, she's fine. You are a different story though.
Yukina: I did all I could with my healing powers but I am not to strong myself after we fought those demons or whatever they were.
Everyone stared at the two girls.
Hiei: You did WHAT!?
Kurama: You were forced to fight!?
Kuwabara: How could you have survived?
Yukina: Now hold on everyone, Um..we didn't have much choice you see we were forced up along a wall so I froze them which stalled them but it wasn't enough time so Keiko couldn't escape so I raced back to help and I used all my spirit energy. That's when they started to slice at Keiko, ripping her open. She told me to run but I was caught so she created a distraction. She made metal poles fall on their heads and I barely escaped. That's when I heard Keiko scream and a bright, blue light erupt into the sky. I was the only one that saw it and went straight to Genkai's temple. Then 15 minutes later you all showed up.
As you can imagine, Yukina is in bad shape as well. Her clothes are torn and she has slashes of her own as well as bruises.
You can also guess how ticked Hiei is right now knowing that his sister had to fight because he wasn't there to protect her and Keiko. He mostly blames himself that the girls had to fight.
Kurama: We are not safe anywhere now, especially Keiko. The best we can hope is that if they find us, we can fight them off before they capture Keiko. They might even decide to capture all of the girls so that they can torture them right in front of us. Genkai, I know it takes a lot of energy but I think you should become a younger girl so they will not think of you as such a threat.
Genkai: Nice strategy but what should I do if they arrive? Just sit around and act scared.
Kurama: You read my mind.
Yusuke still doesn't understand what Kurama's past has anything to do with Keiko's future. He also realizes that the only thing that they can do is hope for the best. He knows that the other girls are in danger as well but Keiko the most. What could they do to stop the creatures of this world from nearly or defiantly killing Keiko? He didn't want her to be harmed again by this insane crap, but it was inevitable.
Kurama: Yusuke, come with me.
Yusuke followed Kurama outside.
Yusuke: What now? Are you going to tell me there's more to this whole mess? That no matter what we can't ever forget this world and how happy we are now? Or maybe you're going to tell me that Keiko is so weak that she can't even sit up and if they do come she won't be able to do a thing to protect herself? Maybe I think she never deserved any of this and that I should have been there to protect her but I wasn't and the reason she's lying there is because of me.
Kurama: Yes, that is exactly what I was going to say. Listen Yusuke, we have two hours before the sun goes down and after that, they will go on a city wide search to find her. They will kill anyone in their way. You cannot make any rash decisions no matter what.
Hiei jumped down from a tree. Since he has heard every word he knows that Yukina, Botan, younger Genkai and Keiko may very well be kid napped. He also knows that they all might die tonight.
Hiei: Kurama, I am more worried about you. She will be with them and you may not react the way you believe you will. After all you can't expect her to jump into your arms and give you a big hug. She won't remember you at all and she will obviously be under her father's influence that you are the one who killed her parents.
Kurama: Don't worry. I will be just fine unlike you who will just slash at everything in sight.
Hiei: You know me far to well.
Yusuke: Look I don't care about them, all I care about is the fact that all of those girls don't get tortured to death! I mean if they do get taken away then we won't ever be able to find them! Keiko can't even hold her head up let alone fight off unknown creatures from another world or the princess of the Demon World. This is just a stupid race between the two worlds to get Keiko and I am getting real pisted off at the idea that Keiko is just a trophy to them!
Kurama: Well, we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
Yusuke and Hiei together: Easy for you to say.
Botan arrived and was informed of the news. She rushed straight to Keiko to see if she could heal her injuries.
Hiei was stunned that he never knew this information. After all, he could read minds. He was the one who should have known before everyone else.
Then he stopped to ponder, what did Keiko mean it was a 'her?' The only way a female demon could come to the human world was if there was a tournament being held.
Genkai: She isn't too good Yusuke. There isn't anything else I can do for her. Botan is on her way though, she may be able to help Keiko far better than I can, but nothing is certain. She is very weak.
Genkai sighed.
Hiei: So who is going to tell us who this demon is? Or are we to be left in the dark?
Kurama: I will start. This is not going to be any short story though, this is going to start about one-thousand years ago. So I suggest that some of us stop uselessly drooling over people, pay attention, and get comfortable.
Kurama stared right at Kuwabara.
Genkai: Kurama, if you ever feel the need to stop I can take over.
Kurama: Thank you Genkai, but I will be just fine.
Genkai: Alright.
Kurama: More than one-thousand years ago everything was chaos. No one knew if they were human or spirit or demon. Then everyone was finally divided into camps and it was all settled, sort of. Humans thought they were superior to everyone and the spirits and demons felt the same. Then one day, as the sun began to set a small spirit, no bigger than a four year old human, conquered all of the demons' camps. They were so surprised that they had no time to defend themselves.
The demons were now under his ruling. He had only humans to capture but they would be as easy, he knew this. They would have found out about the attack on the demons and would be armed and ready to fight.
So he planned an attack on them also but not of the same tactics. He had an army charge the fortress in broad daylight. The humans thought this was incredibly rash. However, they were unaware of the danger lurking below them. While there was an army in front of them there was also one underneath them.
The spirit was leading the other half of his army to attack inside the fortress. There were conditions on this part though. They were only allowed to take prisoners and could not, in anyway what so ever, harm the women and children. There was an exception to this rule, they could take a full grown man's life only if necessary.
He gained victory in one day. After that he separated the humans, demons, and spirits into the three worlds we know today as the human, demon, and spirit world.
After appointing a leader to all of the worlds, the spirit seated himself as the ruler of the rulers. This angered all of the leaders, for they wanted to be there own worlds with their own set of rules. So they planned an attack on the spirit. They were successful only because of the human. She was willing to go to the demon world as queen if they could win the battle. So in other words, she sold her soul. That was their only way to victory, if the human ruler would sell her soul for the power to defeat him.
When they claimed victory she requested that she remain on Earth until she was ready to die but the demon would not listen and took her immediately.
The human race fell into despair until finally the lands were divided and separate kingdoms were
created. Then they were forced to help each other in times of war. The human race lost all knowledge of the other worlds.
The queen pleaded that she return to Earth and restore order. The king would never allow it. Instead the queen was thrown into a demon cell until she realizes her so called mistake for trying to help humans.
Before she was thrown into the cell, she secretly bore a child and gave birth in the cell. When the child was born, her father was overjoyed to know he had a daughter and was prepared to free the mother until he heard the prophecy. That his child would destroy him.
Naturally he could not let this happen so he order the child to eternal imprisonment. However, when the time came for him to banish his daughter he couldn't do it and the ruler of the spirit world snatched the child in the dead of night, releasing her on Earth in a human mother's womb.
When the king arose and went to see his daughter he couldn't believe she was gone and sent out ever demon in his realm to find her. He was unsuccessful at finding her before she was born.
She was born exactly one hour before me. We met in the park when we were 2 and immediately became friends. Then she became popular and I didn't, but that didn't matter to her. "We will always be friends, no matter what happens" is what she told me. I was so happy and we went to our usual secret spot, a hole inside a willow tree that went all the way to the top. When we got there I gave her a single red rose and she returned a gift as a kiss on the cheek. We sat for a while just talking about school and teachers and how we would like to travel the world.
She would always say that it wasn't fair that I was 1 hour younger but yet three inches taller. When we came down we were attacked. They had finally found her and when they tried to kill me she shoved me out of the way and took the blast head on. I didn't think she had survived but.... apparently she has. That was only when we were about 6 so it was a long time ago and it's hard to remember everything exactly the way it happened.
Kuwabara: I got two questions, why did they let her come back and what's her name?
Kurama: The first of your questions I cannot answer but the answer to your second is, Aiyka.
Hiei: What!? You were the boy with her that day? I never would have guessed that! I didn't think that anyone else would remember her even though I can barely. Just her face and her name.
Kurama: Yes, I knew that you knew. I didn't want to alarm you.
Yusuke: Now I have a question, what do they want with Keiko and Yukina?
Hiei: Yes, I am curious as well.
Kurama: I do not believe that they have any intent of going after Yukina. They just want Keiko, and will do anything they have to too get her.
Yusuke: Why the hell for?
Kurama: She must have something that they need. You remember the Netherworld demons of course,
well they were a group of demons who broke off from the Demon World and began an even more powerful kingdom, as we discovered. Well there is another break off a demon world that no one knows the name to unless you are taken there because once there the captive can just give up hope. The only way known to get there would crush anyone unless they were of that kind or accompanied by that type of creature. Well, in order for them to become all powerful, they must have four jewels. It is said that they lie within humans with special powers beyond our wildest dreams and that this world already has three of them. Keiko must have the fourth and final one.
Yusuke: So what can we do? Can't we just get it out of her?
Kurama: No. The only way to do that would be to kill her or almost anyway. The gem appears as a last resort to help the jewel carriers. When these creatures attacked, they nearly killed her waiting for the stone. I'm afraid the only thing that saved her was the stone.
Yusuke: Well she is alive so what's the problem? At least she didn't die!!
Kurama: Because now they know she has the stone and will do whatever it takes to get it!!!
Genkai: They reach the limit of their powers when the moon is unseeable. Meaning when there is a lunar eclipse or a new moon they will be nearly unbeatable. However, if they get the stone there will be no stopping them.
Keiko stirs and awakens to find Yusuke staring down at her.
Keiko: Is Yuki... na allll... ri.. ght?
Yusuke: Yes, she's fine. You are a different story though.
Yukina: I did all I could with my healing powers but I am not to strong myself after we fought those demons or whatever they were.
Everyone stared at the two girls.
Hiei: You did WHAT!?
Kurama: You were forced to fight!?
Kuwabara: How could you have survived?
Yukina: Now hold on everyone, Um..we didn't have much choice you see we were forced up along a wall so I froze them which stalled them but it wasn't enough time so Keiko couldn't escape so I raced back to help and I used all my spirit energy. That's when they started to slice at Keiko, ripping her open. She told me to run but I was caught so she created a distraction. She made metal poles fall on their heads and I barely escaped. That's when I heard Keiko scream and a bright, blue light erupt into the sky. I was the only one that saw it and went straight to Genkai's temple. Then 15 minutes later you all showed up.
As you can imagine, Yukina is in bad shape as well. Her clothes are torn and she has slashes of her own as well as bruises.
You can also guess how ticked Hiei is right now knowing that his sister had to fight because he wasn't there to protect her and Keiko. He mostly blames himself that the girls had to fight.
Kurama: We are not safe anywhere now, especially Keiko. The best we can hope is that if they find us, we can fight them off before they capture Keiko. They might even decide to capture all of the girls so that they can torture them right in front of us. Genkai, I know it takes a lot of energy but I think you should become a younger girl so they will not think of you as such a threat.
Genkai: Nice strategy but what should I do if they arrive? Just sit around and act scared.
Kurama: You read my mind.
Yusuke still doesn't understand what Kurama's past has anything to do with Keiko's future. He also realizes that the only thing that they can do is hope for the best. He knows that the other girls are in danger as well but Keiko the most. What could they do to stop the creatures of this world from nearly or defiantly killing Keiko? He didn't want her to be harmed again by this insane crap, but it was inevitable.
Kurama: Yusuke, come with me.
Yusuke followed Kurama outside.
Yusuke: What now? Are you going to tell me there's more to this whole mess? That no matter what we can't ever forget this world and how happy we are now? Or maybe you're going to tell me that Keiko is so weak that she can't even sit up and if they do come she won't be able to do a thing to protect herself? Maybe I think she never deserved any of this and that I should have been there to protect her but I wasn't and the reason she's lying there is because of me.
Kurama: Yes, that is exactly what I was going to say. Listen Yusuke, we have two hours before the sun goes down and after that, they will go on a city wide search to find her. They will kill anyone in their way. You cannot make any rash decisions no matter what.
Hiei jumped down from a tree. Since he has heard every word he knows that Yukina, Botan, younger Genkai and Keiko may very well be kid napped. He also knows that they all might die tonight.
Hiei: Kurama, I am more worried about you. She will be with them and you may not react the way you believe you will. After all you can't expect her to jump into your arms and give you a big hug. She won't remember you at all and she will obviously be under her father's influence that you are the one who killed her parents.
Kurama: Don't worry. I will be just fine unlike you who will just slash at everything in sight.
Hiei: You know me far to well.
Yusuke: Look I don't care about them, all I care about is the fact that all of those girls don't get tortured to death! I mean if they do get taken away then we won't ever be able to find them! Keiko can't even hold her head up let alone fight off unknown creatures from another world or the princess of the Demon World. This is just a stupid race between the two worlds to get Keiko and I am getting real pisted off at the idea that Keiko is just a trophy to them!
Kurama: Well, we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
Yusuke and Hiei together: Easy for you to say.
Botan arrived and was informed of the news. She rushed straight to Keiko to see if she could heal her injuries.