Chapter 5: New Generation
The demon girl sat within a little nook of the forest that was covered by trees. It seemed that little kids had made it. Around all the brown leaves and green moss the kimono she wore and the pure white handkerchief in her hand stood out greatly. She sat quietly staring at the cloth, running her fingers along the stitch with the threads of gold that spelled out the letters KCS.
"Kirianya Ceru Saskiako..." The girl spoke the name out loud very softly, in a sort of melodic tone. She lowered her head so it was resting in the soft cloth and she still knew that she would nurture and care for it for as long as she would live.
Something caught her attention. A penetrating feeling that was making her head ache. Only one thing ever did this. Hiei's Jagan. Because of her heightened senses, she could feel something like Hiei's Jagan working on her. He was trying to find her and she could now feel him getting closer now that he had found her location. She stood up and sighed. Her plans were slowly decomposing because of her damned feelings. She figured she'd have to regroup and come later. It would probably be for the better, leaving him in a daze of knowing that she was back and letting him suffer. She smiled and stuck her handkerchief into her sleeve and slid into the shadows and sped off.
'Damnit she's moving.' Hiei jumped through the trees and then quickly to the ground after spotting humans. Being in the human world annoyed him even more now that he couldn't demonstrate his true speed to catch up with her without being noticed by at least one person. He still had a lock on her location by her energy now so he quickly wrapped his headband over his eye and took off again.
Spirit World
Koenma sat at his desk, papers towering over him easily, stamping each one with five stamps and throwing them to the side. Ogres could be heard running about outside the large doors seemingly doing something important but no one knew what exactly. Koenma was waiting for Botan whom he had called for a mere five minutes ago. She appeared, weaving through the crowd of blue, orange, yellow, pink and red monsters like water through rocks. Knocking on the large door, it opened unaccompanied and she walked in.
"You called sir?" She stood right in front of Koenma's desk, not seeing him in the pile of papers.
"We've got a problem on our hands Botan." Botan rolled her eyes a little; he didn't seem to summon her for any other reason than that.
"What's wrong?" Koenma divided the papers in front of him and stared at her for a second.
"An escapee from Goumon Correctional Facility." Botan looked up quickly toward Koenma who kept his head pointing toward the desk intentionally.
"You're kidding right? That's impossible; those demons are stripped of their abilities. There they are as weak as normal humans, how could someone escape?" Botan walked forward as to get Koenma's attention. He looked up and stared straight into her eyes.
"I don't know. But someone did. I have a report here saying that," Koenma picked up a piece of paper and started to read off of it, "'several days ago a shadow demon of "high ranking" escaped after defeating several guards at her cell. She somehow got passed the double bolted steel door without leaving any finger prints.' Wait a minute, sorry, that's deafening not defeating the guards. Hm... How could she have passed those doors?"
"At what point would her own powers come into contact with herself again? Maybe she got them back before the doors and just slipped through as a shadow."
"Impossible, the whole jail is blocked off with seals that deny demon powers to those within."
"Wait, then doesn't that mean that the guards would be without demon powers as well?" Botan looked at Koenma and he began to answer her.
"No, the guards have special items that allow them their powers so they can overpower the inmates." Koenma stopped. Could this girl have acquired one of the guard's items and used it to get out? He looked at Botan and they both knew the truth.
"Go get Yusuke and the others; we must search for this girl immediately. I'm not sure if she is in the demon world or human, someone of her abilities could come into the human world easier than others. I'm pretty sure the jail will send more information on the girl who escaped. I should have it by the time they get here. Hurry, now go." Botan nodded and left, weaving through the ogres just like she had done upon entering.
Human World
The sun was beginning to set and warmth washed over the girl who sat far atop a tree. She had successfully detoured Hiei for the time being, she noticed he stopped in his pursuit after her. She saw a boy, with bright and long red hair talk to him. Hiei seemed mad but was pushed to leave and he did. This bought her more time to leave. As the sun disappeared below the horizon, the girl disappeared within the new shadow of the tree and traveled down it unnoticed.
She started to walk back to where she was when Hiei had jumped into the tree over her. The walk there was actually sort of enjoyable, now that she could see what was around her instead of seeing it in blurs from running.
The trees were tall and their branches were large and strong, something Hiei probably enjoyed. Adorned by many leaves, the ability to hide in their thickness was easy if you could get high enough which she could. But it wasn't till she came into contact with the real human world that a frown came across her face.
So much smog filling the air from those strange metal monsters that moved. It looked like they ate humans and were trying to get back to their caves but it didn't make sense to her why they traveled in lines and didn't just eat the humans walking to the sides; it would take less time and they'd get more food and they'd release less black air. Maybe they were higher forms of ants, and still had that colony mentality. Something disrupted her thinking, the sound of children giggling.
She moved her sight to a play ground, there was a group of small children, all girls, and they were looking at her with envy and joy. She looked at them, smiled and gave a small little wave to them. She was always the social one between her and Hiei; more emotionally intact with others, therefore more acceptable in the public eye. It was perfect for their schemes.
The girl decided to lighten her heart a little bit and walked over to the group of girls and squatted down to their level.
"Hello," she said with a true warming smile. Children always made her happy.
"Hi," a girl with short black pigtails in fuzzy pink ponytail holders spoke; she was sucking on her thumb and looking longingly at the girl's kimono.
"I like your dress." Another girl behind the first one spoke up; she had long brown hair with a light blue barrette clipped in it. She had dazzling green eyes with specks of yellow in them.
"Do you? Well this is a special kind of dress. It's called a kimono, a traditional Japanese dress that all the women in the past wore. I'm sure your mothers would know of them."
"Could I get one?" The girl with pigtails asked.
"Of course, you could ask your mother, I'm sure she'd be excited to buy one fore you."
"Where'd you get yours?" A third girl talked, she had a very light shade of brown hair but very dark brown eyes. She was shorter than the other girls. The demon girl paused for a second thinking.
"From a special friend who meant a lot to me." The girls smiled and so did the demon girl. If anything could really make her perk up it was small children.
Suddenly, two women came into view calling out names to which the three girls turned around.
"Mom!" The girls shouted out the word at the same time and ran to the women. The black haired girl went to one woman and the two brown haired girls were picked up by the other woman. They and the demon girl shared smiles and she turned around walking back into the forest.
Then, she heard one of the girls say to her mom, "Mommy! I want a kinomo... ki... kimo... ki-mo-no!" The two other girls shouted "Yeah!"
"Like hers!" The pigtailed girl pointed behind her mother's back toward the back of the girl with piercing blonde hair. The two women turned around and saw her stand out among the brown and green of the forest with a vibrant pink kimono and glowing hair.
"Sure honey," one of the women smiled and turned back around, "We'll find you all kimonos just like that one, okay?" The little girls cheered loudly as the women left the playground.
The demon girl was still walking back to where she was before with a small smile on her face. She continued on, the laughs of the three little girls getting smaller and smaller as she headed back to where she was before.
Once she reached the place, she could see that the pieces of the camera she broke were still there. There was a strip of dark film protruding out from one part and she grabbed it and looked at it. There were little versions of the pictures she took. Ones of simply her, her outside of that boy's apartment, and other random ones like that from when she accidentally set off the camera. But there was one, the one she used to scare Hiei at the end of the film. It was a picture of her sitting on the boy's windowsill, the same sill that she placed it on. She was winking, sticking her tongue and giving the peace sign at the same time.
These made her smile, and then she took out a vial of liquid in a steel vile from her sleeve. She unscrewed the top and dropped the film in. A sizzling sound quivered through the air as a white smoke rose from the vile.
