Sold into Servitude

Chapter 3

"Ah, Hiei. It's been a while since I've seen you. You got a new slave? How have you been?" a red haired demon commented. The demon had emerald eyes that seemed to take in every little detail. Yusuke thought that demon looked like a woman.

Hiei nodded in acknowledgement. "Kurama looks like you've been doing well. Of course, who wouldn't with their mother watching out for them." The last sentence was said quietly.

"Yes. Sorry to cut this short, but there are some last-minute preparations that I need to see to. If you'll excuse me," With Hiei's consent, the red head walked away. An older human woman bowed respectfully before following.

"If you'll excuse my asking, Master, who was that?" Yusuke asked.

"Kurama. He was one of those thief demons for the longest time. He got powerful enough to become one of us before he was almost killed. He possessed a human in your dimension, and lived there for sixteen years, but now he's back. That woman was his human mother. He's Yomi's right hand man, now."

"Well, that explains a lot," the slave replied with fake heavy sarcasm.

The demon lord led his slave around. Many demons stopped to talk casually with Hiei, though many did the talking while Hiei answered questions. The weirdest thing was that almost every single demon started off with the comment "You got a new slave" within the first couple sentences.

After several hours (and several life threats from Hiei) later, the demon conglomeration held the official meeting. Hiei sat towards the back of the room, three chairs from the last. Yusuke stood quietly behind, noticing that it was very difficult to hear anything from the front of the room, where it appeared the major lords were conversing amongst themselves and other demons.

"Are those..." Yusuke started, nodding toward the big group.

"The ones in charge of the entire Makai population, yes. Yomi is the tallest one, Mukuro is the one under all of those rags, and Raizen is the last," Hiei muttered.

Yusuke couldn't help but stare. Yomi, the tall Demon Lord (note the caps, it's cuz it's a proper title. Not like when I'm referring to Hiei, cuz he's just a low ranking officer...), had his eyes closed. He looked vaguely in the direction of whoever was talking, but that was all. He had prominent fleshy horn looking things sticking out of both sides of his forehead. His attire was a rich looking fabric in a casual style.

Mukuro was, as Hiei described, completely clad from head to toe. That demon wasn't allowing anyone to see anything about himself except for one eye that was abnormally large with a tiny pupil. Yusuke sensed the greatest repulsion from this one.

Raizen was a slim, muscular Demon Lord. He went topless to show off his great form. There were odd dark markings tattooed in swirling patterns across Raizen's chest, shoulders and the left side of his face. His long, unruly, silvery hair was held back from his face by a light yellow headband.

As Yusuke finished his analysis on the Demon Lords, Raizen looked his way with an odd smirk. Yusuke stumbled back, but quickly dropped his gaze as any slave has to when confronted with a high ranked demon.

When all of the demon lords had taken their seats, the three Lords stood. All of the demons that were conversing quietly fell silent.

Yomi spoke. "We thank all of you for coming. With the pleasantries done, let's get down to business..."

Hiei rolled his eyes and leaned his head on the elbow he was resting on the table. "And now it gets boring."

"What are they talking about up there, anyway?" Yusuke whispered.

"They've been discussing this for centuries. Weather or not demons should be allowed to eat humans."

"And...how do you think about that?" Yusuke was almost afraid to know.

"I don't care. If demons want to eat their slaves, that's fine by me. If they don't, that works for them."

Yusuke breathed a sigh of relief. It sounded like Hiei was partially against eating humans. The young human continued to look around the room. He saw another demon who wasn't paying attention. That demon had aqua hair and goldish hues. His slave sat right next to him. The demon's hand rested somewhat protectively on the slave's arm. His slave was extremely tall and lanky and sat as if he were paying attention and absorbing the boring rabble. There was something hidden in the depths of his dark eyes, a dark power.

Yusuke hissed, "What's up with them?"

Hiei laughed quietly. "That's one of the demons you talked about earlier."

"Which time do you..." Yusuke watched in horrid fascination as the demon leaned over and lightly kissed the dark haired slave. "Ah, that's so gross," Yusuke muttered as he turned his head.

"As you can see, Itsuki prefers to eat his..." Hiei whispered sarcastically, glaring at the explicit display.

Trying to distract himself, Yusuke continued to look around. "Ewww, is that even demon?" he hissed.

Hiei looked. The demon was extremely fat with sausage-like fingers that were encased in expensive metal rings and held a cigar. His head was misshapen, like a football with an enormous lump on top.

"Even humans can become demons. If you have enough power or money, you can do anything. Tarukane, that's him, was so rich of a human, he bought his life with money. Quite disgusting."

"That was once human?" Yusuke made a gagging noise as he continued on his way.

He saw a tall, demon with a blue Mohawk. He had several sexy women (mostly demons) hanging off of his arms, but his eyes were focused several seats away where a stunning female demon was.

Another one caught Yusuke's momentary attention. He could feel a demonic aura from a man that looked like the American movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger shades and all. He was also catching some high-powered auras from the people around that demon, including the growth on his shoulder.

"The Toguro brothers," Hiei whispered when asked. "A demon with enough strength to have demons as slaves. Best not to mess with him. Truthfully though, he is one of the weakest ones among us." (After all, Toguro was only a B-class...)

Not seeing anything else really worth asking about, Yusuke continued again. He stopped when he spotted a very young, pretty female slave. This slave had an almost plain look to her, with short frizzy brown hair, and large brown eyes. Yusuke couldn't take his eyes off of her.

Suddenly, she sneezed. Her owner, was a very dashing, longhaired demon with sapphire hues, turned and smacked her, hissing, "I told you to be quiet, Slave!"

Yusuke was infuriated. No one else seemed to care that someone had just gotten hit. No one seemed to care that the woman was close to tears because she couldn't hold in a single sneeze.

"Hey, buster, what'd ya do that for?" Yusuke shouted.

All of the demons turned to look. All they saw was a stupid human walking forward as if he were somebody.

Hiei put his head in his hand. That stupid human was going to get himself killed.

Yusuke stopped by the female slave. He glared at the demon in front of him and received an equally threatening glance in return.

"Are you trying to talk to me, human?"

The rest of the conglomeration was silent with anticipation.

"Hell yeah, I'm talkin' to you. Why the hell did you just smack her?"

"She disobeyed a direct order. She is grateful I don't have her for dinner tonight."

"What the hell? You'd eat someone just because she sneezed. If you haven't noticed, those are natural. Holding something like a sneeze in is like...trying to stop a fart. You just can't do it."

"And...you think we care, Slave."

"I don't give a rat ass weather or not you care. It's just fuckin wrong!"

Something made contact with Yusuke's head. Seeing stars, the slave fell over. Hiei slid his sheathed sword back to where it belonged.

The short demon made a small bow to the violent demon. "I apologize, Aita. He is a new slave and not well versed in etiquette," Hiei said.

Yusuke stood, swaying slightly. He checked to make sure his skull wasn't broken. Satisfied, he took a couple steps back.

"You would do well to teach him before bringing him, Hiei. I should have his head for that." As emphasis, Aita made a swipe at Yusuke's head. Hiei caught the demon's fist.

"I would ask that you lay off. I will punish my own slave as I see fit."

"As will I."

"Many apologies." Again Hiei made a fake mocking bow. He went back to his seat and motioned for the meeting to continue. Yusuke was hot on his heals for retreat.

"You speak rashly again, and I'll kill you, spirit energy or no," Hiei whispered to Yusuke.

Yusuke shivered at the promise of death. He swore off looking at women then and there. At least, at that place.

Chapter 3: END

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HD: Ok, well, sorry about that, to those of you who were disgusted with the Itsuki/ Sensui thing. I like Itsuki and I wanted to at least mention him, even though he probably wont be in this fic...this is probably his first and only appearance...cries Kurama too!

Unfortunately, many of the other demons will be making planned appearances. Bleah.

I only have so much planned, but it all focuses around Hiei and Yusuke I have no time to fit anyone else that I like in! But, I have a secret plan for much later! Mwahaha! You'll have to wait to find out though.

Ok, well...the thing about the demons eating humans, that's part of the series. One of the long standing arguments between Yomi, Mukuro, and Raizen was about eating people. Many demons sustain life by living off human flesh. Yomi was the neutral ground, Raizen (who had fallen in love with a human) gave up eating humans, and Mukuro was all for the widespread massacre of the human race...

The made up demon in this one, Keiko's master Aita. I made him up. He's not going to be in it much, but...I have some small plans. And...yup.

As stated above, Mukuro, Raizen, and Yomi are part of the series, just the last arc. Even the part about Kurama becoming Yomi's right hand man happened...Sorry for all the T.V. watchers who don't know what I'm talking about!

I like the way that some of the transfers happened. Like Tarukane, and Toguro...Still, not a lot that's completely relevant, just some...stuff...