--- Warning! This chapter has an implied non-consensual sex act to it. I thought you should know. I kept it to a single paragraph. --GF ---
Disclaimer: See Chapter 1 and as always, reviews are welcomed, flames aren't.
Chapter 28: Love Poison Number Nine
"Asleep in one of the guest rooms upstairs," Barbara said as she helped him into the elevator. "And before you ask, your step father and brother are fine. They should be released soon from the hospital. They were pretty beat up."
Kurama winced as he took a deep breathe. Between the poison and using his talent, Yoko's demon strength just hadn't had a choice to mend the broken ribs.
"Kurama?" Barbara asked.
"I'm fine,' he said thinking that he could use a shower and sleep. Instead, he slumped over into Bruce's arms as the last of his energy gave out.
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Shuichi Minamino aka Kurama aka Yoko wasn't afraid of many things in life. He was a feared demon of the highest class of Demon World. So why was he afraid of a middle age woman from Japan? Why was her opinion of him mattered?
She was his mother.
He woke up not in a hospital but in a spacious guest room of Wayne Manor, alone with only his inner demons for company and one silver kitsune for company.
Groaning, he remembered his dream but he had the feeling it wasn't a dream. He remembered facing off with Poison Ivy. Mother. Barbara. Closing his eyes, he relived what happened.
/ Snap out of it Red. She's not here. At least, I can't smell her. /
Shuichi sighed with relief. He really wasn't up to dealing with her. She's probably with her family and dealing with them, which as it should be. They are her life now. He was all grown up and on his own. As her 'human' son, he was an adult making his way in the Adult World.
A knock on the door broken his thoughts as it slowly opened. Alfred entered with a tray.
"Ahh good, young Master Shuichi," the old butler said, "you are awake. Now before you ask, Master Bruce is down stairs in his study, my niece Barbara has left escorting your mother to the hospital. Your clothes have been cleaned and mended."
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Kurama sat in his greenhouse with a cup of tea resting in the grass beside him. He had been holed up in his apartment for a week since that morning he awoke. He had slept for 24 hours at Wayne Manor and had left without speaking to anyone except to thank Bruce for his care and concern.
Koenma had also stopped by to chew him out for giving the demigod more paperwork to fill out. "Did you really had to Kurama? All those demons were innocent of Yomi's plans. Couldn't have controlled Yoko just a little?" the prince of Spirit World asked.
Rubbing his forehead, Kurama thought back to that night. Yoko had been in rare form.
--- Flashback ---
Yusuke and he jumped through Yomi's little portal carrying the unconscious woman known as Poison Ivy over his shoulder.
"I hope you know what you are doing, man," Yusuake said for the umpteenth time.
"Relax Yusuke. I have it covered." Yoko said with a chuckle.
It hadn't taken them long to find Yomi. Yusuke charged after Yomi, distracting the ruler for a split second. It gave time for Yoko let loose the aphrodisiac plant on his former partner. Yomi had been more prepared to face Yoko's death tree or his ojigi plant but not this.
Yoko left the plant in place, leaving Yomi trapped inside. He even sent an extra burst of energy to insure that the insatiable plant wouldn't let him go anytime soon. This particular plant fed on sexual tension and body fluids of its victims. It's been known to pleasure its victim to death that was why he hadn't used it on the human woman.
"Yoko, you are one sick bastard, you know that?" Yusuke complained, shuddering at the moans and sounds coming from the plant. "At least, I was able to get one blow in before that plant took him."
"For what he had in mind for me, I think it was poetic justice." Yoko left the woman by the plant which contained her former partner. Let the demons deal with her.
However, Yoko wasn't finished. Into the water supply of the city, Yoko poured the love poison nectar he had taken earlier. It caused a Love Potion Number Nice effect as people started drinking the water. Yoko wished he could've stayed to watch the affect but there wasn't time.
Once back in Human World, Yoko destroyed the building with his plants with the last of his energy before returning his body back to Shuichi.
--- end of flashback ---
Shuichi sighed, rubbing his forehead. This time the headache wasn't caused by Yoko but of the look in his mother's eyes when he freed her and Barbara from their prison cell and had transformed into Yoko.
He and Yoko have been holed up in the greenhouse for a week. He had pleaded illness, taking time off from work. Thankfully, he had built up enough trust and sick time that he was entitled for days off. Mr. Wayne told him to take as much as he needed.
Yomi got what he deserved. So for Koenma's question, he had no control over Yoko and he had fully agreed to the plans and results.
/Red, you got to snap out of this. Mother . . . /
Mother. She must hate us by now.
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The object of his thoughts was just as worried about her son. He wasn't returning any of her calls. She had been informed that he had taken sick leave for indefinite amount of time. This was so not like him.
Her husband and step son were healed and back to their normal life style. She hadn't mention anything about what had happened when she had been taken. Only that it was a nightmare that she really wanted to forget.
She picked up the phone and made a call. She wasn't used to taking the initiative but she was losing her son. She realized she never really knew him but that's no excuse. She was his mother and she was worried sick about him.
"Hello Miss Wilson? Barbara?"
"Hello Mrs. Hatanaka. How can I help you?"
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Shuichi's head came up as he heard the lift to his apartment. He had had the back lift fixed and operational since the first month of moving into the building. It helped with all the construction projects. Only Barbara and himself had the access codes to use it.
Moving back into the apartment, he stood ready for his guest. He really wasn't in the mood to deal with her right now. He wasn't in the mood to deal with anyone, period.
Wait, there were two people in the lift.
The lift doors slid open as he took a step back. "Mother."
Shiori gave her son a tentative smile. "Hello dear. I had Miss Wilson to bring me over. I've been worried about you."
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Before you ask, I was thinking of the lyrics of Love Potion Number Nine. According to the song, the guy who took it started to kiss everything in sight until the affects wore off.
Snow: Kurama converted to Yoko then back again. I could have had him running around in the buff (drool) afterwards, but I did want to keep it somewhat decent.
Until next time. --GF