Disclaimer: Well I don't own the Yu Yu Hakusho characters; I'm only borrowing them for the mere pleasure to write a small piece of this anime.

Summary: Challenge. Hewas seeking for the future, the lonely traveler wanders…She whose hearts screams, seal away those dreams…It's a Faraway Dawn.

Pairing: It's a Youko KuramaxAyame.

Well here is the second part of the one-shot collection 'Tooi Yoake' that by the way means 'Faraway Dawn'.

Once again dedicated to Maiden of the Phoenix and the fans this pairing might have.

"Tooi Yoake"

2. Ebony.

Deep and heavy silence surrounded her form, she felt a bit dizzy and she didn't know why, but also she felt warm and comfortable. A small moan escaped her lips while a hand moved to her sore neck and lightly rubbed it, her eyes fluttered open and she found her eyes fixed on white cloth.

Lightly she raised her head and found herself staring into a pair of golden hued orbs, with a small gasp she noticed that she was sprawled on the lap of the handsome silver haired thief, mutely she looked down at her lap and tried to remember what had happened for her to end in that situation.

She remembered stomping out of the mansion after her talk with her father and then walking to the clearing near the manor with Chiyo to have a small night bath and try to soothe her nerves, then she remembered Chiyo telling her that they needed to get back to the manor because there was a thief in the lose.

Then she had seen the most handsome and ethereal man her eyes had ever seen, his toned body was clad all in white with long silver hair and a regal and masculine features enhanced by a pair of deep and cold sun hued orbs, he was just beautiful, however she could tell he wasn't a human due to the silver ears and tail and that he was the thief, she recognized the katana at his side, it was maybe for that she screamed.

After that he had moved like lighting and caught her before she could react, after a small word exchange they had took off with great speed and when she realized they were on a real far away clearing. She had waited for him to kill her, she waited with hope, and had even asked him why he hadn't done it yet, that led to another word exchange and she had believed he had killed her but it seemed he hadn't yet.

A bit confused Ayame looked up at him and to her utter disbelief she found him smirking at her with an air of male cockiness that she had never seen before. It seemed that he had noticed her uneasy spirit and her shyness, that angered her and she tried to move of his lap but to her utter horror he wrapped his arms around her to keep her from moving away.

Bent in desperation she struggled in his grasp but to her bad luck he didn't even seemed disturbed by it and merely waited, it wasn't long before she grew tired and fell limply against him, but just because of that it means she was going to willingly accept this.

"Let me go!" She ordered while she pushed herself from his chest.

"First of all wench, I do not receive orders from others, specially women" He spatted rather acidly, but a cruel smirk still present of his face "Second of all, I rather enjoy your personal embarrassment while you're in this position"

"You're just like every other male in this world!" She said with a voice also dripping with acid and glaring at him with her azure orbs "Now just let me go and kill me if that's what you're going to do"

A look of amusement settled on his face when he saw her struggling again "Well I must admit that you have quite a fiery spirit, wench" Easily trapping her with one arm, he moved his other one to grasp her chin and obligate her to look at him "It's been a long time since I saw a woman with such an spirit"

"I don't care how long has it been!" Her voice was now really cold and her eyes flashing with anger "Just do what you're going to do"

"It's really odd" He mused and tightened the grip on her chin causing a small moan of pain to leave her pale rose lips "Why a woman with your spirit wish to die?"

"That's not of your concern!" She spatted.

"Indeed you have a real fiery spirit, wench" His voice sounded really amused and his grasp on her tightened a bit "But it was the pain and sorrow that lives within you that bent you to develop such a spirit, you have lived a life were you have are drowning in those emotions, don't you?"

Her eyes widened and her resolve seemed to die at those words, no one had ever been able to notice that she was broken and bent in sorrow and pain, not even her father everyone assumed that she was alright, that she was happy for being the daughter of such a wealthy man and that she loved to live in that world.

No one had ever took the time to analyze her emotion and see her internal pain or her bleeding soul, no one till that night were a simple unnatural thief had been able to see through her and read all of her emotions like if she was an open book for him to read of it.

How come that the person closest to her hadn't noticed after eighteen years and this person was able to see in least than a day?

The sudden stinging sensation behind her eyes and the almost blurry sight she had of him told her that she was crying, she hadn't noticed when she started to cry but now she could feel the tears running freely down her porcelain cheeks and strangely she felt free to cry as much as she wanted to cry.

"I supposed so" His voice suddenly said as he let go of the tight grasp he had on her delicate chin "It's was easy to tell"

"Please…I'm not asking for much" Rather slowly she moved to at least be more comfortable on his grasp and then moved to place her head on the space of his shoulder and neck, not even caring whom he was "I just want you to kill me"

His eyes widened at the sudden change of her attitude and her boldness at practically cuddle on him, he knew he should be angry and pull her away but he wasn't angry nor he wished to pull her away. Usually the sight of someone crying will be, at least for him, considered weakness, but it seemed that she really needed to cry and that it had been a long while since she hadn't, probably because of her ice façade and that she didn't had no one to console her.

Her hands gripped his shirt and allowed her tears to feel freely, it had been twelve years since the last time she had cried, a small gasp of surprise escaped her lips when she felt him wrapping his arms around her almost in a tenderly way. It was strange but she felt safe and warm in his arms, it was a different feeling from the many times her mother had held her when she was a small girl, maybe it was the notion that he was, well, a real ethereal handsome man and she was a full grown woman now.

And like any woman she had the needs and curiosity of any woman to explore her sexuality, but being the woman she was she couldn't be free to do it, if she did she will bring shame to her family and she had been breed to wait to her marriage bed and she had done so, not even her lips had ever been used.

"Now, if you don't mind" His voice broke the rather comfortable silence, he wouldn't have wanted to but the warm breath against his neck was starting to tease him "Why do you want to die?"

"As you said before my life, is neither pretty nor happy"She said still safely hidden in the space between his neck and shoulder"I have been drowning in sorrow and pain, but tonight I drown completely"

Lightly he raised his head to gaze at the green leafs sky "Don't you fear death?"

"Ie" She answered daring to move closer to him "I do not fear death"

"Then what do you fear?" He asked.

"To be caged, not able to decide what to do and to live on the way everyone wants me to be, just like I have" She answered and her grip on his shirt tightened "I fear the screams of my heart and my sealed dreams that will never stop or be free"

"So in a way, you want to die to be free" He said a bit amused, it was the first time he saw something like that "But why tonight? If your life was so difficult why didn't you do it before?"

"Because before at least I had some hope but tonight" She took a deep breath and allowed her eyes to flutter closed "My father informed me that I'm meant to marry in two weeks with a man that I don't love but had enough wealth to please my father"

"You're engaged then" He felt her nod against him, his first plan had been to kill her but now he didn't wished to do so "I see"

Silence fell upon them once again, slowly he stood up gathering her in his arms, rather gently, something he didn't knew he had, he placed her on the ground but she kept her head on his shoulder and her arms gripped around his shirt. Now that he didn't have wishes to kill her he had decided to simply let her go and return to Makai, after all her problems were not his.

"Are you going to kill me now?" She asked with her velvety voice.

"No" He answered rather simply and looked away when she gasped in surprise "I'm going to leave you here so you can return"

"I understand" Her voice sounded really disappointed and finally she moved away to look up at him "Before you go, may I know something about you?"

He looked back at her with a cocked eyebrow "What?"

"You look to ethereal to be real, yet I know you're not an illusion from the Kami" She lightly smiled at him "I know you're not a human as well, so I want to know what are you?"

He couldn't help the smirk that came to his face at the possibility of her being afraid of him "If you must know I'm a youkai"

"A youkai" Her voice echoed, so he was a demon that looked like an angel, still she didn't moved away from him "And may I know you're name?"

"Youko Kurama" He answered.

"Kurama" She probed his name of her mouth and found that she liked it "It's strange, but now I don't want you to go"

Ayame fixed her azure eyes on his golden hued orbs, her eyes widened open in surprise when she felt his lips on top of hers. She flinched for a few instants before her eyes fluttered closed and she pressed his lips against his, it wasn't long before the kiss turned more passionate and fervent while she pressed her body closer to his.

She moaned in disappointment when he suddenly pulled away from her breaking their lip lock, finally she let him go and looked down at the ground not being able to see him in the face or watch him leave. When she raised her head once again he was gone and she was alone, yet in a way she wasn't, she raised her hand and lightly touched her lips.

Now she knew that in a way she wasn't alone, because that kiss had meant more for her than anything and with it she gave to Youko Kurama the only thing she could give by her own free will, she gave him her heart, a heart that once had screamed and had it's dreams sealed away but that now it was free, it was the only thing she could give in the end after all everything else didn't belonged to her.

Azure orbs gazed at the spot he had just been a few seconds ago, a small content smile appeared on her fine features.

"Thank you, Kurama" She softly said. "I hope to see you again"

With that she turned around and started to walk away, maybe if she was lucky she could find a group of guards that were surely looking for them, however she didn't noticed the pair of golden hued eyes that were fixed on her retreating form till finally she was lost to his sight.

A smirk appeared on Kurama's face, he turned around and kept with his way back to Makai with a thought to have another visit at Ningenkai in the close future, but right now he needed to return…

It was still a faraway dawn…

Well there it is, well to my friend here is the challenge done and ready, I'm quite pleased with it.

Anyway no flames accepted and if someone out there wants to be my beta for my YYH fics, well mail me and I'll be glad to answer back.

Well see ya next time kiddies.