Within a few weeks Yume adjusted to what she was expected to do on a daily basis, she was always silent and did as told. She quickly found that Yomi was constantly busy with something and disliked being interrupted unless the place was burning down. She doubted he'd want to be disturbed even then. He was much different than the show had perceived him to be, he was much more snappish and cold, he'd simply wave you off if he thought what you had to say was unimportant. However, she had never seen him become angry; it seemed no one was dumb enough to do that.

Her leg was doing much better; it didn't even hurt anymore much to her relief. Each morning and night she would jump into the nearby river. In the early morning it was freezing, but woke her fully up. By nightfall it'd be somewhat warm because of the sun shining on it all day so she'd be able to clean herself off in semi comfort before it got too cold.

When it came to meals, however, she tended to stay away from it. It looked like it came from a distant planet and tasted like it too, most of the time she went hungry. When she was desperate she'd eat a couple of bites before giving up, youkai eat the strangest of things.

She was learning the Japanese language, but still could only understand a bit. It sounded odd to her, what she could understand, but it was better than nothing. Kamaiya had left her with words of good luck, leaving her to hold her own now.

Yes, she was still miserable and still wanted to go home, but it was a bit more bearable than before. She would still cry herself to sleep at night though, wishing she could see her family again no matter how odd or annoying they were.

Currently she was working in the garden; she didn't know what grew there and would rather not know. Yume swore up and down that one of the growing plants tried to bite her! She heard a light growling behind her, her heart raced as she slowly turned around. To no surprise, it was a youkai. He had long grey hair tied into a braid, dark grey wolf ears were positioned where normal ears would be if he had been human. A tail swayed gently behind him, his wolf-like feet were left bare. His golden eyes bore into her blue ones as he grinned, licking his chops. Yume was just about to scramble away and scream, but was stopped when he clamped a hand around her mouth. He tied a piece of cloth around her mouth and tossed her over his shoulder before bounding off with incredible speed. Tears streamed down her face as she wondered what her fate would be this time.

'Why me?' she wondered as she whimpered. The wolf youkai was far from gentle as he bounded from area to area, obviously pleased with himself for catching such a bounty.

"Lovely meal she will make." She pieced out as best she could, it wasn't accurate she supposed, but it was enough to know what he planned on doing with her.

'I don't want to be dinner!' she cried out in her mind. Soon enough, the wolf stopped at a cave and dropped her carelessly on the floor. A couple of others came over, their mouths watering.

"Human, so long since had human," she was able to translate. Yume shrunk back against the wall in fear, tears continued to fall. "Yet no, little king around, safe no." She attempted to pull the cloth from her mouth and cry for help, but a hand was clamped firmly around her mouth. "Hush, or now kill you," the wolf hissed harshly. She trembled silently, her tears continued to stream down her face.

'I'm going to die,' she thought fearfully. 'I'm really going to die!'

"Little king go, eat now!" another wolf hissed and raked his claws across her back painfully. The hand was removed, too soon it seemed. Her shriek of pain was heard by the 'little king' as he was called. The wolves howled in rage and began to claw at her, wanting her dead before the little king got there. The moment the wolves scattered due to the blue light, was the moment she ran past the little king and across the field.

"Wait!" the king called to her. She didn't listen, she kept on running. Fear coursed through her body, blood flowed from her open wounds, she would not stop until she was far away from danger. Behind her was not only the little king, but she heard the quickened footsteps of the wolves.

Soon she could not hear any sounds of anyone following, but she refused to stop even after the skies darkened and rain began pouring from above. Her hair stuck to her back and face, her clothes stuck to her small form showing just how thin she had become. Her feet became bloody; her clothes became covered in mud from falling quite a few times. Her tears mixed in with the mud and rain, she was wet, cold, and miserable.

A large rock formation came into sight, the top of it hung over enough to give her shelter. She curled up underneath the rock and fell into a miserable, fitful sleep, shaking and shivering the entire time.

A small little creature with green skin and pale yellow eyes came up to her prone form with a little grin.

"Do you like your wish mistress?" he chuckled. "You should have been careful what you wished for, you got it." Yume whimpered in her sleep as if in response. With a snap of his fingers, the little creature was gone.

M.Y.W.I.S.H.M.Y.N.I.G.H.T.M.A.R.E.

Tijiya: There is an explination for the terrible language that the wolves spoke. You see, that is how she hears it until she learns more. It's broken up, she can't hear it accurately yet. Hope that explains it. Neeway, what do you think of the story so far? Is it bad? Rushed? Just right? Let me know! Also, I might make some changes to previous chapters. If I do, I will let you all know kay?

Disclaimer:

Yu Yu Hakusho (c) Yoshihiro Togashi

Hope/Yume (c) Tijiya