Sold into Servitude
Chapter 2
Yusuke had become quite comfortable in the demon's house. He had found out that, despite ideas, some demons would treat their slaves quite decently. Hiei just happened to be one of those kinds. The tri-eyed demon generally ignored the antics of his slaves, mostly letting them do whatever they wanted. They ate on their own whenever they wanted and however much they wanted. Yusuke kept watch at night for any straying demons, but that was his only task. He would stroll about the castle and, on occasion, the estate, during his free time. It was a comfortable place, once you got used to it.
There were only three other slaves in the castle. Kuwabara being one, a quirky blue haired one that stuck to the kitchen, and a quiet slinky one that had shinobi written all over him. The quiet one annoyed Yusuke to no end. Yusuke had been tempted to team up with Kuwabara and take out the shinobi, but he was pretty sure Hiei wouldn't tolerate that.
None of the slaves had really ticked Hiei off, or seen him angry for that matter, and they all silently agreed that they never would.
It was one such time that Yusuke was roaming about the halls when Hiei called. "Slave, get in here. I want to see what your capable of."
"A mock fight?" Yusuke asked as he entered the small room.
"Yes. You need training so that you're up towards my level. If a demon of my status breaks in, you stand between it and its goal. At this point, it will kill you."
"No way! You'll kill me!"
"I say you spar with me slave. What are you supposed to do?"
Yusuke sighed with exasperation. He mumbled, "Spar with you."
"Very good. You shouldn't die, at any rate. You avoided that one attempt easily enough."
"Well, yeah, about that. That was just a lucky...duck. Seriously, that was reflex alone! I probably can't repeat that again."
"You will be able to. Let's start."
As soon as the words had been spoken, Hiei seemed to disappear. The demon smacked Yusuke upside the head with his katana before appearing in front of the disgruntled human.
"Ow, see, Hiei. I told you that was a lucky shot," Yusuke complained.
"That was just to prove your own point. Try that again and I might kill you."
Still muttering complaints among other things, Yusuke stood. The next attack was more successful. Yusuke didn't end up with his face on the floor. He managed, in fact, to avoid being hit completely.
This challenge kept up for a long time. Hiei was too fast for Yusuke to hit, though the human tried numerous times.
Finally, Yusuke threw Hiei off enough that he was able to attack. He pointed his right index finger at the demon lord and shot a blast of blue colored spirit energy at his master. Hiei moved out of the way and the blast ran into the wall.
"Shit!" Yusuke shouted. "Sorry bout that, I just kinda forgot.
Hiei looked at the slave and smirked. "Nice."
Then, he attacked again.
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Yusuke was practically dying for breath after the practice had been completed. The slave mostly seemed worse off because Hiei didn't have any visible signs of fatigue.
"Where did you learn to use your spirit energy?" Hiei asked.
Yusuke hesitated. "Uh...well, you see...It's a really long story."
"I have a lot of time. Tell."
"Fine. It's like this. When I was at my home, in the Ningenkai (human realm) I died. Everything was so screwed up that I got to come back to life. When I did, I had these strange powers. I probably would be dead again if that old hag hadn't shown up and taught me how to use them." (Sorry, it doesn't sound like Yu-chan. Why call him Yu-chan? That was what Kato's sister called him...I'm kinda sick right now, so don't expect allot.)
"Hn. So I have an undead walking slave."
"Hey, I'm fully alive here! I just was dead for a while, that's all."
"Whatever. Don't ever shoot that thing for show again. The only time you should is when you are alone and about to die. Got it?"
"Yes, sir," Yusuke replied in a wistful tone indicating that he probably wouldn't listen. "But, hey. I was kinda wonderin'. What kinds of freaks make up the demon nation?"
"If you are talking about the system, I can tell you this: there's no limit on who you were, just that you have enough power or enough money to live through anything."
"Like, for example...?"
"If you want to know about something you should ask instead of beating around the bush."
"All right, fine. How did you become a demon lord?"
"I started off as an outcast and a thief, gained enough artifacts and experience to move up the chain. It's quite common for a demon lord to have a background like that."
"Oh, I see. So then..."
"I would suggest you stop prying. You stick your nose where it doesn't belong and I'll cut it off for you."
Yusuke's mouth snapped shut.
"You need to learn some proper etiquette."
"What the hell?"
"Got it? There is a check next week, and you had better be presentable for it. Botan will teach you."
"What? Why me?"
"Because it got embarrassing taking Kuwabara."
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Botan was the slave in the kitchen. Yusuke spent five days relearning how to behave around the high officials in the demon conglomerate (what I'm gonna call the lords when they meet) and other such things that he learned at the slave school.
The bubbly girl had to stay forever in the kitchens, keeping foods frying and such, among keeping Kuwabara from eating everything. Yusuke was always bored.
In the Ningenkai, they learned everything about serving demons on top of other, more boring topics like geography and math, reading and writing. It was bad enough when Takanaka taught it, but Botan added such a cheerful air to everything, it seemed to ruin the subject.
But, finally, Yusuke was ready. At least, he hoped he was, because it might mean the difference between life and death.
Chapter 2: END
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Syn Explains: This time, the author is way too sick to do anything, even explain this chapter. How she actually managed to even write it is beyond anything humanly comprehensible. She will be better for the next chapter, (and before this is posted) so don't worry.
Kato (Yu-chan) mentioned earlier, but not really is Angel Sanctuary. If you like this fic (or if this fic ain't morbid enough for ya!) HD would defiantly prescribe this Manga. If you see the DVD on sale at Suncoast (Why?) buy it. It got HD hooked into buying the manga... She doesn't own it outside of that either!
There was just a little bit of stuff to comment on in this chapter after that. A touch on Hiei's life in this fic, and a little on Yusuke too, but the next chapter will be coming soon and quite hilarious!