Shik: Hello again! ((sweat drops)) I don't know how long I made you wait but I hope it wasn't too long.

Sykla: Un-huh...and...((rolls hand in circle))

Shik:((sweat drops)) I'll be gone all next week. But I will work on my stories when I have down time.

Sykla:((rolls eyes)) What else?

Shik: There's a Snow Heart spoiler too. ((scratches head)) I hope I didn't just take away some fun in that story.

Saved: ((pops out of nowhere)) Shikokudarkstar does not own Yuyu. Only me, Sykla, Dandlin and the plot. I think thats everyone.

Chapter 5: Of remembering

"DAMN IT!!" She growled as she was throw toppling over again. It had been a week since Dandlin suggested to Yusuke that the guys train with her at the temple while she was gaining back her powers. She growled at him now metally since he had healed her stomach.

Swords clashed again as she blocked Hiei's attack. Insight flashed in her eyes as she saw a breeze pass. Hiei was in trouble now. She smiled as she blew him off balance quickly. She watched him fall as she leaned on her sword.

"I believe that's cheating." Saved said with popcorn at hand. He, Kuwabara and Yusuke were enjoying the tit-for-tat match that Sykla and Hiei were having. Hiei would win then Sykla and so on. Until they had to stop to eat for a bit.

Sykla smiled as she laid back. She loved the sound of sword clashing, steel against steel. It was music to her, and that music she was unwilling to give up.

Yukina came in carrying a tray of warm tea and other dranks. She came to Sykla after she served the rest of the gang. "What would you like to drink?" She asked quietly. Sykla smiled as she asked for the hot tea. Of of habit, she looked at Yukina's neck...she was claimed. Sykla smiled but said nothing.

Kurama moved next to her to get out of Yusuke and Kuwabara's way. They were going to use the arena next. Kurama looked at her, "I noticed you looked at her neck. Why is that?"

Sykla shrugged, "Old habit, I was a healer and if women were kind to me in the village I always checked their necks."

"Why's that?" Kurama asked in interest.

Sykla smiled, "All the boys came to me for advice on who to date and how. I have this ablity to see something I call a human bite. It's just a mark that says their taken. But she..."

Kurama chuckled, "Yes her lover is away at the moment. And Kuwabara used to date her so he left a mark to remind us."

"A dry-bite?" Sykla chuckled, "I bet he had a sense of humor then."

He nodded, "He was interesting to work with...but Yukina saw that before anyone else did."

Sykla's eyes glittered, "How so?"

"Well his family was recently taken from him and so he had a rage that was so unstoppable. She saw that he cared more for her than his own life and acted on it. She wouldn't let him go without him admiting that he felt the same way for her." Kurama smiled.

Sykla nodded, "So I see" Then there was an weird silence between them. "...I really wish that someone else would swordfight."

Hiei looked over at her but turned away before she noticed he had. Kurama noticed this but said nothing about it. Sykla sighed, "Steel against Steel that clash...it's music to me. I don't know why I love it."

The music makes me sway

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Hiei listened as the onna tried to explain to Kurama that every clash that the swords made against each other was like a note. As the fight continues the notes become a song. Then onna just gave up on Kurama, she was tired of explaining it.

Saved was rolling his neck as he too listen to her. It took an idiot not to know that Saved would do anything for Sykla. He caught Hiei's attention as he inclined his head to the arena. They both knew that the other was more than willing to clash.

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Sykla was thrilled when Saved told her that he and Hiei would be clashing and she was more than welcome to watch. She leaped up and begged them to start. Saved flinched away for a second before walking away with Hiei.

"Hn baka onna." Hiei frowned.

Saved smiled, "She has a rough charm, one that pulls people in."

Red eyes met honey ones as they took up stance.

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Dandlin sat beside Sykla, invisable to her and everyone else. Around his neck he wore a soul collar so that Sykla could acess his power and defend herself. He, having no living form, was useless in the heat of battle.

He watched Saved clash with Hiei, niether one of them beating the other. Dandlin knew better, Saved would lose. He only had one fault, and that was his whole point of being was to protect Sykla. After he did the one thing he was supossed to do while he was alive, whatever it was, he would be lost in forever darkness. There is no heaven or hell for a gravedigger, they disappear into darkness.

KABOOM!!!

The ceiling started to colapse and all I saw was the honey's determation and the red's fear.

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When Sykla awoke she was in a small pocket of air. Bones held up the walls and as she tried to get up, a firey hand pushed her down.

"You're leg's pinned under twisted steel onna. Stay down." Hiei growled.

Sykla frowned as she held her head, "What happened?"

"We were attacked." Saved's voice said flatly. She couldn't see him, but she could feel his aura. And deep inside her she heard Dandlin's crys of pain.

The angels singing say we are alone with you

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Roars that echoed softly in her head, she closed her eyes and saw him. He was just sitting there in pain, legs mangled, head resting against the wall.

"Dandlin?" She called she walked close to him only to see she was cut off from him. A wall that wasn't visable to her was in her way.

She tapped it only to have a face and red eyes looking at her. It's head was cocked to the side, a human looking body with long spiral horns on each side of it's head. It's cat ears were flame red, emphasizing it's short white spiky hair. Claws were on the hand that reached for her, and they looked like daggers. A cat tail was flicking left to right and back again, like a clock's pendulome.

"Sykla." it cooed, raising a claw to it's mouth. "Will Sykla kill Tori?"

Sykla looked at it, "If you stay away I won't." She growled, "Now what's going on?"

It looked at Dandlin, "Sykla hurt. Dandlin save from pain. Saved save body. Tori sorry Sykla didn't know that clan excisted."

"What clan?" She growled edging towards the odds yet innocent looking thing. It was so familiar... "And who the hell are you?"

It cocked it head again, red eyes haunted, "me Tottori Kirrio. Tori clan outcast. Sykla clan hope. Clan is bad. They kill honey eyes and cat. not baby."

Sykla looked at him, "That's my last name and how do you know my name and what the hell are you?"

"Half-sister, you don't remember? Tori visited Sykla many times. Sykla healed Tori again and again but Tori could not tell. Tori a valyn. valyn good clan valyn bad." Tori cocked his head again, red eyes pleading.

Sykla turned away, "Get away, I was turned into a demon my family is dead and there are no such..."

Tori smally smiled, "Remember? Valyn wanted sissy so he bite, make hers. Honey eyed lover save her."

"Why are you here?"

Tori sat down and cried, "Tori run Tori try to run to sissy but temple in way of blaast a smash Tori. Tori bleeding, body die soon. Body hurts. Tori don't want body."

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Sykla opened her eyes and remembered. She saw Hiei and snuggled close to him. "They're going to try to get me again."

She saw Saved's eyes above her, on the ceiling of the pocket. He blinked, "I know. I can't move at the moment though."

Sykla hit the ground, sending the earth above Saved flying. He was soon on the ground beside her, as she tried to crawl farther into the rumble.

"How could I forget?" She growled, cawling at the ground.

"You were supposed to." Saved sighed.

"But him too?" She paused eyes watering.

Saved nodded, "I know, we'll find him."

"He's dying." She growled

Hiei picked her up and as he did, Dandlin's roar echoed through her entire being. "So are you" He growled.

"He's worse"

"Maybe but you're here he's not." Saved snarled.

"Save him damn it!" She screamed at him, her eyes now crying.

She saw the pain in his eyes as he walked away. "Of course my lady."

I am alone and they are too with you

She clawed at Hiei to let her go when she saw the dead-looking red eyes. The body breathing the mind hiding.

I'm alive, I'm alive

She sank deeper into his arms, how could they try to kill their own? Tori said he was an outcast and she saw the hurt and haunting pain that those eyes cast aside. Oh Tori, how could she have forgotten the little idiot that the family adopted. She had thought he died after the demon killed her family. Oh the eyes, he was a valyn who ran away as a child. She loved his like a real brother and now she would have to mourn again.

The clan was going to pay...dearly

Shik: So that's all for now. Hope you liked it.

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