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K: Broken Angel doesn't own YYH.
BA: On with it.
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A bird, that is the first thing I heard. A strange birdcall. Sound's like something you'd find in a rainforest.
I feel a silky cloth against my skin. My sheets are supposed to be cotton, and yet all around me I feel this different cloth…
Where am I? I sniff the air, it smells like rain, plants, and flowers, sweet blooming flowers. I don't think I've ever smelled a few of them before, much less seen.
I open my eyes. Above me is a canopy of green leaves, the sheets about me are an ivory, embroidered with green vines, and small sapphire and crimson blossoms. The room is filled with exotic plants from the demon world, though there are a few ferns that are of human world in origin, I think.
I feel a movement in the bed to my right. Turning my head on the pillow I see the back of a silver head, fox ears protruding from the top. I recognize the silver. It's the same as Oka-kun's. It must be Kurama. What happened? Why am I in the same bed?
His strong and lithe body turns over, giving me a view of his face. His head rests on his arm, while the other arm reaches out for something in my direction.
He takes hold of my arm and pulls me to him. What is he doing? He holds me in his arms tightly, disabling me from moving away, keeping my head nestled in the juncture between his neck and shoulder. I look at his face again, he actually looks cute when he's sleeping. He doesn't look so… menacing as he did before. His golden-fire eyes hidden from view, he didn't seem like he could hurt a fly.
His eyes open suddenly, startling me. His arms wrap tighter around me as he directs his gaze straight at me. "Enjoying the view?"
All I can do is stare at his eyes, familiar in color, but altogether different, for what is behind them. His eyes seem to promise me everything, from eternal blinding pain, to eternal binding pleasure. (Yes that's blinding, and binding. No typo.)
I shake my head ridding myself of the thoughts. He hurt Kelonta, He caused Oka-kun to waste away into death. "Only wandering why I'm in the same bed as you." I try and glare, but his eyes seem to out do it. And they aren't even glaring, really.
He laughs, and like his eyes, his laugh holds the coldest ice, and the hottest fire. It's as if he's threatening to consume me, and he hasn't even spoken a word to say as such.
"I have never needed two bed's in my home before, hence I only have one." I hope that just means he's a hermit. I look at a fern that is in my direct view, there's a thong hanging off a leaf. Guess he's not a hermit. Damn.
"Um… Would you mind letting me go?" I to crane my neck a bit in order to get a little distance, but a pain on my throat keeps me from doing so.
"No." What? "I still haven't found my answers. You will stay with me until I receive them." Great.
"How can I give you answers, when I don't know the question?" He chuckles, sending a shiver down my spine.
"Why does my father care for you, when he does not even care for his own son? Why does he teach you with such patience, when with me it was learn this, learn that, and the promise of punishment if I didn't?" What? I knew that Kelonta had driven Kurama away, but from the way Oka-kun made it sound, it was just a bit of teasing… Kelonta had wanted Kurama to do well.
"He cared. He just wanted you to do what you could, to be what you could. He didn't want you to give up." Kurama growled, he started to hold me to him tighter. I'm going to have bruises from his arms.
"So he contradicted, yelled, and put me down at every turn? I'll have to say it worked, if I were to be honest. After I ran, I found a family that pushed me to be my best." I try to look back in my memory for any information on where he went… Now I remember. According to rumor, he had become part of Ahrishmed's little band of thieves, and then after a few hundred years… he slaughtered them. "I became better than that family, and I had to find a new one, one that was stronger." That was when he formed a band of his own. But once he had been thought to be dead about some-odd years ago, they disbanded.
"I know. What do you want?"
He looked into my eyes, a sad yet monotone appearance came to them. "I know not the answer to that anymore." Growling, he released me from his grip, and stood from the bed, his back facing me. What did he mean?
I sit up, and throw my legs over the side of the bed. "I'm afraid I do not understand…" He laughs.
"Everyone's leaving me." Leaving him? "Or I'm leaving them. Either way, I know them not as I should any longer." What does he mean? I want to bonk him over the head and tell him to stop talking in riddles. "First my demon mother and father… Then Ahrishmed and his band… Then my own thieves… And finaly my human mother… I no longer know any of them." He then growls again, his growls send my spine into a field of ice. "If I were not now part human, I would not have these emotions. I do not understand how, at times you humans can draw from such anger as this. It is more… carnal than any demon that would come to mind at the word."
"I'm sorry… that you're so confused… I do not know what I can do to end it though." He laughs again.
"I was not asking you to help. You obviously don't have the answers I seek. No one does. It is an answer I'll have to find for myself." Damn my curiosity:
"How do you plan on doing that?" He chuckles again.
"Someday have a family." I bristle, he'd better not mean me. And yes I know conceited thought, but he is here pouring out his heart. "Not soon though. There are things I need to do first." Cue the big inner sigh. Sigh. That's good. Now to figure out how to get home. Either my nook at Kelonta's or my room in the human world, don't care which.
"Um… Kurama… I was just wondering… I have no idea where I am, so when are you going to take me home?" Didn't he say he was keeping me here until he knew his answers?
He looks at me, his eyes seeming to be playful. "We'll see." Great. How long is he gunna keep me here?
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After the kidnapping of Suisho by Kurama, my son, I took all that were involved in Suisho's life to my home. And explained to them the story behind Suisho and I. Yusuke said he'd talk to the high-ups about making sure I'm able to visit Suisho and visa-versa. "Hey, Hiei, where do you think Kurama would have taken her?" We began to start thinking on where my son would have taken Suisho.
"I believe that he has a home somewhere near Shaou-han" The small demon sighed, "I don't know where exactly where it is though, you'll have to ask around. That's all I know."
"Then I suppose we'll be heading to Shaou-han, or what?" I look at the baboon headed friend of Yusuke, Kuwabara I believe his name is.
"I think that's the best course of action. Though someone should stay here, incase if Suisho comes back to my home, someone needs to wait at Yusuke's home as well," that unfortunately is the best plan I have.
Hiei speaks up again, "You actually think that slip of a girl can actually escape from Kurama?"
"I don't see how that's impossible. She's a smart and resourceful girl, one of the reasons I chose her to be my heir." I only hope that she doesn't have any life-threatening need to escape. Unfortunately that's all I think I can hope for.
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Note: Shaou-han isn't even a real word, I just made it up, don't try looking for it, I'll be surprised if it means anything.
BA: Sorry I didn't update sooner, I just haven't been really happy with this chapter. Still not completely satisfied, but I think I promised to update faster, and I obviously haven't kept up with that promise. So Sorry. Please don't hold it against me though. Oh, and hey, for those Lord of the Rings fans out there, I'm working on a fic there, so expect it in a few months! Hopefully.
K: I don't think that fic'll ever see the light of the net.
BA: Will too.
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BA: Will too! And that's that! Please R&R people, it's the only reason I live!
K: ... Will not.
BA: Grrrrr...