Field of Promises
By Youkiyra Solar alias Krystal Fox
Krystal Fox: Should I continue this story. Tell me! I do not own any of Yu Yu Hakusho at all.
Chapter 29 With out you
The hours since she had disappeared were shocking. Dark couldn't believe it. Her friend was gone…again. Where was she this time? Yuusuke had gone to koenma to see what he knew about this and would be coming back soon but they didn't know what was going to be happening. So she waited patiently, just as Youko was, waiting for what might come now.
Besides I have a whole lot of more difficult problems to deal with. My daughter has sprouted wings and is going into 1st grade soon and what am I going to do? How can I let my daughter be living a normal life with her friends when it can't happen?
Kurone walked over to his wife and sat down. "Well my dear we must discuss what we are to do now."
She nodded, "How can we let her go to school? One day she might accidentally let her wings out when she is not to."
"That is possible of happening," Kurone said pulling her into his arms, "But I think we both know what we have to do, Home-school her. I was thinking with her changing like this and you getting your Youki back that we could move to Makia and live there for a time till Raven got her ability under wraps?" He asked and questioned her.
Dark thought about this, then nodded, "This will have to work. As soon as we can let's go."
Yuusuke soon after returned from Koenma and he met with Dark and Kurone. While Raven was playing with her wings and hiei. Yukina laughing nearby as the little girl tried to catch Hiei.
"I talked to Koenma and he found that her name was on the "To die" list…" Yuusuke said as Dark's voice caught, "But the thing is that her soul hasn't been found forget about her body there is not living or dead trace of her. She has literally melted off the face of all three worlds!" Yuusuke said sounding frustrated.
"Then we will just have to deal with her passing as one as with death." Dark said with her head bowed. Tears were forming. Kurone could smell her saltine tears, hugged her closer and snuggled his face into her neck to give her comfort. She clutched to his arm and tears then fell freely, blurring her sight.
Hours went by, days, months…
Dark looked out of the veranda of their Makia home. She sighed it was coming upon the year anniversary of her friend Light's disappearance, and she was getting all emotional again. She saw Youko out in his garden.
Ever since they had moved back to Makia he had been staying with them. He would mournfully watch the seasons change and sigh as he watched his garden grow. He rarely slept at the house anymore. He was off making his Youko name more terrible and to-be-feared. He always was outside among his roses and daffodils and lilacs and lavender etc…
She sighed going inside she went to start dinner, perhaps she could have dinner outside today it was certainly warm enough.
Youko sighed it was nearly 4 seasons, fall had passed slowly as Dark began to teach Raven at home and Kurone became a merchant in Makia and a successful one at that, with still another name. He had gone back to his hideout and cleaned it up and started to use it again, pillaging by himself gathering jewels and silver and gold in his spare time, causing a minor bit of mayhem and chaos.
Winter was a very cold one, his underground part of the hideout got entirely covered and the snow fell over 4 feet. He was glad that he had stocked up food and such in his hideout, because then he could only leave his hide out by flying and that tired him out a lot. Raven continued her education by her mother and learned how to control her wings and started to learn how to make them disappear, and later would learn how to use them in speed and height.
Spring came too quickly for his liking, even though he loved growing things he wasn't ready incase summer came too quickly and Light never showed…would she? She promised, why do you doubt her? Just be patient and wait. He kept telling himself but it seemed the inevitable, his dear beloved would never show. That is what his mind kept telling him but his heart kept saying no she is going to come just keep up hope.
When the signs of summer began to show, Youko grew restless, it looked like she was not going to show.
A few weeks before hand Yuusuke had come with Genkia with a little hope, Genkia had been talking with Koenma and he had told her, "If Light has been gone this long I no longer have authority to take her life and soul, so she is free to live again if she returns."
The word if kept echoing in his head, it made his heart hurt at the thought of never seeing her ever again.
A couple days passed.
Youko was sitting with Raven who was trying to give him a crown of daisies but they kept coming off and walking back to the earth and replanting themselves (Youko's fault, he didn't want a crown on his head.)
Dark walked out with Kurone and was beaming, "Raven, Youko, I want to tell you something very important"
(Yes Lizette I am doing it again…HE HE)
Kurone was looking so proud.
Youko's eyebrow rose in question of his glowing admiration of what was going to be said.
Raven looked up from her work and paused, "What is it? Is it more important than daisy crowns?" She asked innocently.
Youko rolled his eyes and said under his breath, "I hope so…. I know so."
Kurone heard this and smiled, if possible larger.
As they were about to hear this wonderful news, they heard a voice ask, "So what is this wonderful, surprising news."
Everyone froze…. As out of the shadows walked Light, she was wearing a soft green colored roman styled wrap and her dress went to the ground. She wore a small silver circlet around her head with a single Pigeon Blood colored sapphire in it. (That color is red if you are wondering)
Light smiled, everyone had a shocked look on his or her faces. "Well has the cat got all your tongues?" She asked walking over.
She's become a forest nymph! Youko thought as he looked at her.
Her hair was braided in the most beautiful fashion so that even the loose hairs about her face looked like they belonged there. Her skin was a pale color as if she hadn't seen the sun since she left them, and her waist had a beautiful belt about her waist like those of the medieval times.
"You're back!" Raven said, running to her and nearly bowling her over. Raven had never fully understood what happened to Light so just thought that she had gone on a trip and was going to be coming back.
Dark walked over and joined the hug weeping tears of joy. Kurone went over and soon youko was involved into the hug. Underneath all the arms and hugs Light laughed her musical laugh and said, "So I take that this was a surprise?" She said with humorous sarcasm in her voice.
"Now Dark what is this wonderful news that you have to tell everyone?" Light said as Youko drew her into his arms and she leaned back into it.
Dark's mind had gone blank what was it I was going to tell them? A small feeling in her stomach reminded her. Oh yes, that's what it was.
She smiled at Light and said, "You have come back just in time to be a godmother again."
Light's eyes sparkled, "A child, oh how nice, when do you expect him?"
Dark looked at her friend, "Him?"
"Oh I forgot to tell you, since I am the priestess of time I have dreams once in a while about the future and it will be a boy." Light said smiling, while brushing Youko's arm causing a purr to escape his lips.
"Oh? Well I expect…him in 4 months." Dark said with pleasure in her eyes.
"Mommy you're gonna have a baby?" Raven said looking confused, "How will he get out?"
Dark looked surprised and Kurone blushed, "Come dear I'll explain it to you inside with a book we have about this, at least I hope I can explain this…" He said the blush getting brighter about his face as he took Raven's hand and walked her inside so Dark and Youko could get information out of Light.
As soon as they were gone Dark demanded, "You will tell me what happened and like now!" She said forcibly to her friend.
Light said, "I will tell you…I am sorry for making all of you so sad but I couldn't fix it. Morning and Evening needed me."
"Why?" Dark said remembering whom these "people" were.
Youko wondered this himself.
"Let me begin from the moment when I disappeared from y'all…"
Flashback:
Light felt very light as she seemed to float through air and then landed peacefully at the base of a large clock, in a Dark forest that she remembered well.
There up on the clock were Morning and Evening on their positions on the clock looking very much like a part of the clock, and not living breathing people.
She sat and waited for that magical time between 12-1 that lasted for 24 hours all seemingly crammed into the one hour between Midnight and morning.
She had a good two hours to wait for them to come alive so she decided to look around the clearing.
Light found that there was an oak table set up made of an actual tree stump that was HUGE. One this table was set all wooden settings, wood place mats, wood plates, wood cups. She wondered what it would be like to eat on such things and the wooden utensils? Wouldn't you get splinters eating with wood "silverware"?
She didn't know but then noticed that there was a large bed in a clearing not far away, it was the most beautiful canopy bed you could imagine. It looked like it was actually inside a tree but it was actually out of the tree somehow. And the canopy was made of a growing moss that had grown up the sides creating a fairy tale illusion of romance about this bed. And the sheets on this bed looked to be one of leaves and they were!
But she could feel that they felt as soft as a spider's silk and each layer on the bed was so soft.
All this had taken a full two hours and before she knew it there was a chiming and the clock people became alive.
She walked back to the clock and smiled.
"Hello Morning, hello Evening." She said sitting on a nearby rock as they got used to being people again.
Morning was the first to get used to it and walked over smiling, "Well now begins your training."
"What training?" Light said looking worried and confused.
Morning seemed to read her mind and put her at ease as she said, "IT is the simple task of putting everything to right again so that you will not have to deal with this again for a very long time. And not to worry it will be done before 4 seasons are up, then you may go to your Youko and live happily."
Evening seemed to guffaw at this thought but didn't say anything more.
Morning seemed to ignore Evenings stubborn pessimistic attitude and walked over to a crack in the canopy bed and after touching it a door opened.
She followed and found that it was a wardrobe! A gigantic one, all in her size.
"These are all yours as you are here with us. That bed is yours and the table out there will have food on it during mealtimes. That I think is all I need to tell you." Morning said
"Yes there is. Besides the fact that she will be working her rear off to get all the things she needs to know in that short of time, but yes then we can do it in 4 seasons, pashaw." He said in scorn.
"I think she can do it!" Morning said with determination.
"Well I don't" Evening said
"I do"
"I don't"
"Well then I will prove you wrong." Morning said with a determined air.
"Hm" Evening said looking the other way.
"Light I am going to show you what you will have to learn." Morning lead her across the clearing and showed her a tree. This tree looked very strange. It had numbers and clocks carved all over it. Then as she looked closer saw that it was the grandfather clock that Morning and Evening came from.
"This tree is the Time Clock, it controls everything that goes on everywhere, even in death as long and creation has a set time there will be the time clock and every so often the clock needs to be given a reboot but since Evening and I are not separate from the clock we are not allowed to fix the clock that is why women are chosen over the centuries to come and fix it…"
"Why women?" Light asked curiously.
"Oh that is because women are more open-minded to what is going on." She said directing that comment in the direction of where Evening was sitting. "Anyways you have to learn how to become one with the tree to get to the inner works of the tree to fix it."
"You mean I have to kind of do what you guys do but still be living and breathing?" Light said shocked.
"Yes, You are catching on quicker than I thought. This might end earlier." as Morning, said that they heard a humph from behind the large canopy bed.
"You have to learn how to do it well and you might say that part of you will become like that of a wood nymph, and you will not age a single day as you are doing this."
Light nodded and they began.
After many long and tedious hours of practice and waiting for them to come out again she finally got the blending with the tree mastered. But it was already nearly spring. She was worried that this work wouldn't get done in time for her to leave to go home to Youko.
That day as she melded with the tree, she felt herself suddenly go deep within the tree. There within the tree and right in front of her was at the very inner works of the Time Tree.
She quickly left and went leaping over to Morning and Evening who were cleaning some of the clock faces numbers.
"I did it! I did it! I got to the very center." She began to dance around like she was celebrating her birthday as a little girl.
Evening dropped the rag he held in amazement then shook his head looking at Morning with a look of disbelieve. Morning looked pleased as if she knew that this was going to happen. "Good then we can finally have a brand-newly fixed clock to work with."
She jumped down from the clock and walked over, "This last job will tire you out but we will wake you in time for you to leave." She said as if she knew that this would get finished that day.
Evening had retrieved a bag and handed it to Light and as one of his rare times of speaking began to give her instructions on how to fix the clock.
Within minutes she was at the center of the tree and saw that there was a bent piece of metal from that "stupid" mirror's powers. She took the piece out and replaced it and sure enough the Clock ran as if it was brand new.
She exited and Morning was ecstatic and even Evening was smiling.
"You can go now." Evening stated.
"But we can't let you go without a little reward." Morning said cheerfully.
She walked over to the wardrobe tree and pulled out a beautifully Goddess type dress that was perfect. It would fit all the right grooves and be loose at all the right places. Once she had it on Morning insisted on doing her hair, Evening presented her with hand made sandals that he placed on her feet.
"I feel like I am royalty but all I did was fix a clocks part." She said blushing.
"Oh you did more than that, if the clock had been left that way any longer than necessary time would have frozen and never regained it's pace. You fixed and for it we shall repay you…" Evening was speaking to her, "When you go back you may bring your beloved here to share this bed." He said motioning to the gigantic tree-bed. "For that is your gift."
"It is a wishing tree," morning said, "If you wish for something with your dearest one at heart there it will come true. Now go, shoo, I want to see this man of yours so go get him."
End of Flash back
"And well that's when I showed up here." Light said kissing Youko' s forehead.
"I am glad you are back, now let's go save Kurone from further embarrassment at trying to explain birthing to my daughter." Dark said getting to her feet.
Once inside they found Kurone sweating and blushing bright red as he was stuttering and Raven nodding every so often. They sat and listened.
"So, daddy, the big stork comes and finds out what kind of baby mommy wants and then goes through his "strange" catalog and then it just comes out and he takes it to mommy when her stomach is big and then when she gets it her tummy isn't big no more. I think I've got it." Dark said running off to play with her dollies.
Kurone rose and walked over, "I don't know if I just made that worse than it should have been."
Dark, Light and Youko just laughed at Kurone and his facial expression as he watched Raven disappear outside, it was of absolute terror at having to have done that.
Krystal Fox: Alright folks just one more chapter and this story is done. I promise to make the last Chapter extra long as a good measure for the ending. And don't worry I will make it a happy story end With maybe hopes of a sequel.