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Chp 2 A Doctor's Son
Yugachi watched his Aunt Shingi rigorously cut up a carrot. It simply amazed him how fast she was at it yet she didn't cut her hand. He wished he could do that, but every time he tried his mother, the doctor, had to sew his finger back on. Yugachi blew his pale white bangs out of his mismatched eyes, the left a pale almost white ice blue like his mother's and the other was a grayish green that sadly was missing an origin. Yes, he was a bastard child not that his mother shunned him at all for it but it was apparent that it affected his opinion of himself. In his own eyes he was a mistake.
"Bored, Yugachi? Or are you waiting for me to cut my hand off?" asked Shingi in a teasing voice, which he reacted to with a mischievous smirk that said more than words for him. She had chestnut blonde hair, cute short with a slight curl to it and brilliant sea blue eyes. She was a Water Youkai whose ability to create water at will allowed the ship to spend almost half a year at sea if needed. Not to mention she was one of the best cooks he ever knew. Yet Shingi was very much a large mystery, because of the fact that she never talked that much about her life before the Devil's Dance Floor. Yugachi's mother said that there was a very strong sense of age in Shingi's eyes though she was very cheerful most of the time humming as she prepared the exquisite meals they had three times a day. Yugachi was always fond of her, she always let him have first dibs on desserts and let him help whenever he wanted in the kitchen.
"Yugachi! Come quick! Some addlepat was pulled out from the briny deep! They're taking him to ye ma!" shouted Ross, Yugachi's second cousin who was 15, older by two years. The two of them were best buds which was inevitable since not only were they the youngest but the only males on the ship. It didn't bother them to much it was a much better life than the life that his mother had saved both boys from. The other female crew members were very kind and were like older sisters to them. The Captain herself seemed to treat them a bit kinder than some of the rest, though he wondered if in the back of her mind she wished to toss them overboard to the Miasma Eels.
Yugachi hopped down from the counter he was seated on and raced after his cousin to the doctoring part of the ship. It was just a small room next to the cargo hold, but some of the most extreme surgery could be performed there.
Sairi looked at the man being carried by the two crew members. One carried his legs while the other roughly carried his top. Her hair was a lovely raven black flowing to her hips, on her nose perched a pair of small framed glasses shielding two wise looking brown eyes. Her tanned face was framed with two pointed cat ears. She was a cat Youkai that possessed slight psychic powers. Here and there she would experience visions thought they weren't always clear. If not a vision then a solid gut feeling about something, which was what she felt when the Captain had ordered the man thrown overboard. It was a feeling that the man was important for something later on, though not apparent now. She wasn't quite sure what yet but over the years a firm trust was built when it came to trusting her feelings. People lived when she did.
Sairi looked behind her to the sound of running footsteps. Ross with Yugachi trailing close behind him caught up and both looked at the man curiously. She always felt a need to keep an eye on Ross.
"Don't you gentlemen have duties to attend to?" Sairi asked in a testing tone. Ross smiled impishly.
"Nope, I'm on break." The dark haired boy said grinning. She looked to the younger who hadn't taken his eyes off the salvaged outsider. Intense curiosity showed through his eyes making up for the boy's lack of words.
"Yugachi?" she called his attention. He looked at her with an emotionless face.
"Can you go ahead to your mother and tell her she has a patient coming?" she asked politely. Yugachi nodded and ran off ahead. Sairi looked at Ross.
"Well, are you just going to stand there or are you going to help them carry him?" she asked teasing him.
"What? He isn't that big!" Ross complained but stopped when he received the "look" from Sairi. Ross groaned and took the place of Kelsey who had his torso. Sairi smiled in a satisfaction.
Kyoko Metsuki sorted though the bottles and jars of different medicines. It was a necessity to check through all of them every day to make sure all the jars of precious contents were sealed and accounted for. Some of the contents were herbs being extremely rare and a terrible waste if not taken care of properly.
She tucked a lock of her pale blue hair behind her pointed ear. Pale blue eyes scanned over the labels of the bottles. She was an ice demon though not of pure blood. Her Great grandmother had been an Earth Youkai but that race supposedly died off a long time ago. Then again the Fire Youkai was also a "dead race" yet the Captain was one, so the extinction of the Earth Youkai was not confirmed wholly.
The sound of the door opening made her turn. There Yugachi stood with a more serious than usual expression on his face.
"Yugachi, what's wrong?" she asked stopping her work and looking at her son with concern.
"Patient's coming." He simply said walking over to the other side of the patient table. It was merely a wooden table though kept extra clean. Yugachi remembered watching many things be healed on this simple piece of wood, though some he wished he didn't watch. Ross seemed to be more interested in that kind of thing anyway. There was a beating on the door and Kyoko walked over and opened it.
"Took you long enough!" said Stephy holding two black boots under her arms. She walked in the boots attached to legs and body being carried by Ross. Kyoko looked at the rescued strange man in a little surprise.
"It's a guy." She said.
"Yes, very good, doctor." Sairi said entering the room. Kyoko looked at the first mate and didn't have to ask any questions just by a glance at her expression.
"Ah, you made a request. Well, all of you out. Except you boys, I need you." She said shooing all the women out. Yugachi closed the door behind them as his mother put on a brown apron over her ragged short sleeved peasant shirt and baggy patched up pants.
"Well, shall we begin?" she said tying the apron behind her back and immediately checking the man's pulse.
Ross watched as his cousin began to feel through the man's hair. Her fingers moved slowly and gently. At one point her hands stopped, but then they continued not seconds after her hesitation. Turning around she picked up a knife and turned back to the patient.
"What are you doing?" asked Ross in a bit of alarm.
"Don't worry I'm just going to remove his shirt. I can't feel his ribs through his shirt. Your worry is unreasonable." She said cutting down the front of the black tank top and placing the knife carefully on the table. Seeing as how the fabric was soaked it was a remarkably easy task. The ragged remains of the tank top were put aside. She began to feel down his torso and again she stopped.
"Well, Kabira's obviously welcomed him aboard." She said with an irate tone, "I wish that she would be a bit gentler with her greetings, especially if they're coming to me." She said continuing her check up. Checking his legs she walked over to a cupboard and opened it up. With a sigh she began to name off his ailments.
"Alright, so broken rib, high fever, dehydration, and he has a severe bump to the head. Ross, as soon as I'm taking care of his rib I need you to get some fresh water from Shingi for now find some numb root for when he wakes up, Yugachi I want you to go the Forecastle and get extra blankets along with some of your extra cloths. We can't keep him in these wet ones, and since he's about the same height as you yours would fit best." she said gathering up bandages and splint.
Kyoko carried the bandages to the table and set them down. Feeling his rib again she was careful not to put to much pressure on it. Her eyes wandered a little to Ross who was searching through the cabinets trying to find the numb root. Her eyes eventually fell on the mans face. A partially torn bandana was tied around his forehead just meeting his hair line. Taking it completely off it revealed something that instantly confused her. There was a slit in his forehead, yet there was no blood or scab. Leaning down for a closer look she brought her hand up touching it lightly. The slit opened revealing an eye making her back away.
The man sat up and instantly grabbing the knife and slicing open her lower arm. She screamed in pain gripping the wound. Yugachi was instantly on the three eyed man trying to make him lye back down on the table. Ross was quick to help and both of them were able to pin him down thanks to the fact that the man was already in a great deal of pain. After being held down by the two boys he still fought against the boys though his face was twisted in agony.
"Yugachi I'll hold him, you tie his arms and legs down." Ordered Ross. Yugachi nodded and released his grip and quickly grabbed the bandages his mother brought out before. Briskly he bound all four limbs to the table's legs. He signaled with a nod that he was secure so Ross let go. The man continued to struggle against the restraints.
"Mom." Said Yugachi walking over to Kyoko and gingerly touching her cut arm.
"I'm fine Yugachi. I just need some stitches." She said rising up. The blood from the wound had covered the front of her apron. Ross handed her a large cloth witch she took and covered her injury.
"Ahem." A voice cleared behind them. The trio turned to look at Captain Kabira leaning against the door way.
"Having a little bit of dilemma with the poxy lubber?" she said straightening up and walking into the room fully. She glared down towards the still struggling man.
"No, Captain, we just had a little accident." Kyoko said tying a tourniquet around her arm to help stop the bleeding. The Captain looked at her and shook her head.
"Kyoko, me matey, you're a terrible liar. Have I ever told you that?" she said. Walking over to the wooden table in the middle of the room she glared daggers down at the tied up man. The man with all three eyes glared right back. She grabbed his jaw bone with her gauntlet hand and held it tight. Her tone unexpectedly had a light sense of cheerfulness to it.
"Now listen here, you scurvy dog, if I see another scratch or mark on me second mate then it's the rope's end for you. Any more struggling out of you and I'll break the rest of your ribs along with your limbs and Keelhaul you for a mile, and after that we'll take all three of your deadlights and have Shingi cook them into a stew, and with whatever's left with ya' we'll toss back as chum for the fishes." With that she roughly let go and walked to Kyoko.
He smelt the intense aroma of whiskey on her breath when the supposed "Captain" threatened him, which immediately indicated that she was drunk. At least it seemed that she threatened him, her tone seemed to suggest otherwise. To add to it her lingo was full of the pathetic sea slang that didn't make understanding much easier. Threatening, drunk, or just a plain fool he didn't like her.
His thoughts on the strange Captain were interrupted when the pain in his chest hammered itself back into his mind. He watched in silence as the Captain helped who he guessed to be the doctor of the ship with getting her arm cleaned and stitched up. In his pain and slight confusion he felt eyes on him. Looking to his other side sat the boys that tied him up. The elder was scowling at him but the younger boy's face was emotionless. While the elder fidgeted and seemed incapable of sitting still the smaller didn't make any movements he just looked at him. It was beginning to annoy him, but he was in no position to bad mouth him, so he just closed his eyes and tried to concentrate on something else other than the pain.
Yugachi watched the strange man, his head flooding with questions yet his tongue refused to ask them. Sure he was bothered by the attack on his mother but that didn't keep him from wondering many things. A hand grabbed his shoulder.
"Come on let's go get the things Kyo wanted us to. Captain's here so she should be okay." Said Ross. Yugachi nodded and left behind the older boy, but before out of sight he glanced back once more.
Kabira finished tying the bandage around Kyoko's arm for her. The wound was quite deep but would only take a week to heal. Kabira was very protective of her crew mates, and if they wouldn't have ended up fighting against her she would have hung the man from Michelle's hands. She walked back over to the man her arms behind her back.
"Quite a trouble maker ye be." She said, "Welcome to the Devil's Dance Floor. Don't touch anything that's not yours or I'll have you flogged and hung from the bowsprit. I am Captain Kabira Stoic, and you've already met me doctor and Second Mate Kyoko. Now seeing as I am outnumbered in the choice of your fate we might as well have your name to scream at you while you do intense manual labor." She addressed to him. The man didn't answer. Kabira's temper flared a little.
"I'm quite aware that you are in pain, sir, and unless you want another rib to match I'd suggest you tell me your name." she warned him.
He couldn't deny it he was in pain, and another fractured rib was one of the last things he wanted. He glared at the Captain all three eyes still open.
"My name is…" he started but was surprised to find that he couldn't finish his sentence.
"It's…"he tried again but like before he couldn't finish. Thinking hard he tried to find it, but it was lost. He couldn't remember anything.
Kyoko: Ooooo! Dun dun dun! What will happen to Hiei? Will he get his memory back? Where is the rest of team Urameshi? Will Kabira ever sober up?
Kabira: HELL NO! WAHAHAHAHA! Drinking lots of whiskey.
Kyoko: I have to agree with her. I hope that the last bit doesn't ever come true either. Any way Plz Review ;.; It would make us happy. Oh yes and in response to Priestess Rin, it will be a couple more chapters till more characters enter in. Hiei has to get his memory back first to even realize that they're out there. Byeeee!