As promised, I am updating during the spring break. I have decided to stick somewhat to my original storyline. However, since Yusuke and most of the gang are not alive during this time period (the mid 1300's), I decided to put them in as their previous lives. Hurray for reincarnation. Now two of the kings are in power Makuro and Raizen, Yomi is still a thief. He and Kurama are apart of a bandit organization who does dirty work for Enma. Why? Because if they do not do what they say, they get to suffer in the makai. Damn, spirit world.
Anyway, that is all you need to know about the story now. So on with the story already. (P.S. I need a beta editor. If anyone wants the job, tell me.)
Angel's Touch: Chapter 1
The silver haired man lounged about at the Demonic Loft. His arms were around two women, who were currently playing with his soft hair. Whores were good for tonight. He was drunk and feeling great. He glanced at Yomi, his new partner, who sat across from him. Yomi also had his own sex toys as well.
"Shall we toast to another successful heist, Kurama?" Yomi lifted a glass of sake toward Kurama.
The kitsune smirked and raised his own glass. "A toast to my superior bandit skills and charming good looks, for we could not have done it without them."
The two demons clink their drinks together and downed it in one gulp. "As always, you have an ego as large as your death count."
"I wouldn't be me otherwise."
"How true," Yomi laughed. "Tonight we shall sleep with beautiful women and drink to our hearts content."
Kurama lifted an eyebrow. "You mean your dick is actually large enough for a woman to suck on?"
Yomi frowned. "Ha ha, very funny. What stick do you have shoved up your ass this time?"
"Sorry I don't like men." Kurama smirked as the women giggled.
"Smartass."
"And proud of it."
"Youko Kurama, get your lazy ass over here!" A tall man, with short, brown hair stood near the doorway of the room.
"Your old man's calling you," Yomi laughed at Kurama's disturbed face at the comment.
"He is not my father," he said as he stood up.
"Close enough."
"Go fuck yourself, Yomi," Kurama glared coldly at the man who was clearly delighted at the other man's pain.
"I would, but I prefer that a woman do that for me."
Kurama shook his head and walked over to the brown haired man. Kurama's cold stare clearly said, 'you-have-ten-seconds-before-you-die-a-painful-grusome-death-while-I laugh–at-your-suffering.'
"You have an assignment that begins tomorrow. You are aware of this, are you not?"
"I am aware," replied the now angered kitsune who was currently pissed at the chubby bartender for interrupting his fun.
"What I'm saying is screwing around tonight can fuck up tomorrow's start."
"Forget petty details, all I care about is getting laid and getting drunk, which I won't regret because I'll be too drunk to remember it."
"Yes, and you will have a huge headache along with it. I don't know if you remember or not, but you need to be in better than average condition or else you will get yourself killed!"
"Sounds like fun," Kurama gave an amused smirk.
"Kurama, I'm serious. Believe it or not you, I do worry about you. You've been so careless since Kuronue died. You've been coming back soaked in blood, picking fights you can barely win, coming back to drink until you pass out, making careless and sometimes stupid decisions, and killing the humans without mercy, sometimes torturing them for your sick pleasure. Even this is going too far for you. You are becoming worse than a bandit. You are turning into a monster!" the man yelled, but not over the loud noise of the room.
"Is that not what a demon is supposed to be, Kota? Cruel and cold like a monster. Are we not to make the humans fear us? Because that is what I'm doing."
"Hai, we are demons, but you're starting to go too far. You are beginning to act like a mindless, blood thirsty, low level demon. The only difference is that you are a lot more lethal." Kurama smirked. "That wasn't a compliment you know."
"I know. I'm just glad to know that you know I'm dangerous. This makes me wonder why my death glares don't work on you," he muttered the last part glancing to where he was previously sitting, watching Yomi flirt with the women he was with earlier.
The man named Kota sighed, brushing his brown bangs from his sea blue eyes. He scratched the back of his head before speaking again. "Kurama . . . . You have been like a son to me since your mother died."
"Yup, and look how I turned out," he smirked in his head as Kota glared at him. "If other demons hear how sentimental you are, not only will you be a laughing stock, they'll try to kill you."
"Just . . . Just try not to get yourself killed."
"I won't be killed. They are only humans."
"They are more then just humans, Shuichi."
"Do not call me by that damn name, Kota!" Kurama banged his fist against the wooden frame of the door. Everyone in the room turned to the two men. After what seem like a long moment, activity resumed, and the noise began to pick up again. Kurama took a deep, silent breath before tuning around. "I will speak to you tomorrow morning, Kota."
Kota watched Kurama walk to his spot with Yomi before leaving the room to meet Koenma in the next room to get Kurama's next mission.
"Is something wrong, Youko?" one of the girls asked with false interest as the fox demon sat beside her.
"No, nothing is wrong," and with that he led the girls to his room.
"I'm telling you, I think it means something!" a boy around seventeen yelled at Sakura, who was walking less then a foot away from him.
"Explain this dream to me again, Kira-kun," Sakura asked calmly, wincing slightly at the boy's loud voice.
"Okay, but I'm only telling you this one more time. I was in this weird town. There weren't many trees around, and there were people everyway wearing strange clothing. I was also wearing strange clothing except it was an amazing green colored one. I mean I looked good. Honestly, I should find more green colored clothes like that. I looked goo-," Kira noticed Sakura glaring at him and cleared his throat. "Anyway, I was walking down this hard white dirt path when I notice this kid playing with a white and black ball on a hard black path when this red metal demon came charging at the kid. Apparently this red demon had eaten a man and a woman because I could see them through the demon, but the odd thing is, they were laughing. I mean what type of fucking crazy people laugh about being eaten? Back to the story, I see the demon charging, and I run and push the kid out of the way and get hit. I go flying up over the red demon and die. I suddenly die! I mean, what the fuck is up with that? I don't understand why I didn't just kill the stupid thing. I mean saving a stupid kid and not thinking about killing the thing sounds like something Seta would do. Him and his stupid cat, Eikichi."
"I swear, the two of you act like an old marry couple the way you guy fight all the time."
"He claims to be my rival, but I keep kicking his ass so easily."
"How many times have you beaten him, again?"
"Too many to care," he put his hands behind his head with a smirk clearly saying 'I'm-a-badass-so-I'm-going-to-say-I-don't-care-while-I-am-actually-boasting-on-the-inside.' A cocky bastard that one.
"I heard that, Soujiro! And I am not a loser!" A boy with strange orange hair and black beady eyes came up from behind them with his gang of friends.
"I never said that you were, dumbass. Are you really that stupid, or did you spend too much time getting beaten up at the sparring practices?" Kira smirked, but stepped in front of Sakura as if to shield her from view.
Seta saw this and glared at the girl. "Still hanging out with "her" I see."
"Leave her alone, Shinomori," Kira frowned, placing his hand onto his katana.
"Ditch the freak, Soujiro. You would be at the head of the class if you didn't hang around her," Seta pointed to Sakura when he said freak, and it was clear Shinomori didn't like it one bit.
"I said piss off!" Kita lifted his finger aimed at Seta's heart. "Spirit Arrow!"(1)
"Arrggh," Seta went flying a good 30 feet from where he was previously standing, crashing into a few barrels as he landed. His gang of friends immediately went to his side.
"Call her a freak again and the next time I attack I'll make sure I pierce your body," Kira's face was serious. He watched as Seta and his friends fled toward the shrine.
"You didn't need to protect me, Kira." The two teens continued walking toward the shrine that the Seta had run off to.
"If I didn't, you would have let them beat you up. You are too kind."
"It would only make the situation worse. I rather not kill anyone."
"Speaking of killing, did you have another dream about that demon?" Kira changed the subject. For some reason, the subject about the mysterious fox demon cheered the girl up.
"Yeah, but it was the same as usual. Sneak. Kill. Steal. Nothing new."
"Really. You seem like you don't care about what happens to your future husband."
The girl blushed a dark red. "What are you talking about now? He's a demon."
"So, what's your point? Look, the strongest Qigong (2) master deserves someone equally as strong if not stronger. It should not matter if it is a demon or a human."
"Speaking such words is forbidden, Kira," Sakura whispered staring at the horizon as the sun began to peak over the mountains.
"So is a woman learning Qigong."
"That's different. My spirit energy is too strong not be learned how to control it."
Kira rolled his eyes in annoyance. "In other words, some god messed up and created you a woman instead of a man. You know what I say to that. Fuck the law, and just screw the guy if you ever meet him."
"Nice to know you have high morals. Besides, he's only a dream."
Kira smirked. "Bet my katana for your red silk kimono that you'll meet him one day."
" . . . . Why do you want my kimono?" Sakura asked cautiously slightly surprised that he wanted it and slightly disturbed.
"My fiancée saw it and thought it was cute. I thought it would make a good present." He shrugged. "Don't really care though."
"I think Yumi's right for you. She can definitely put you in your place."
"But she's so naggy, it's always, 'get up for school and don't be late', 'skip and I'll kill you', 'stop staring at my ass'. She won't even let me slack in my training. Something about the shogunate might call us at any moment."
"We are at war Kira. She does have a point."
"Aww, not you too!"
"Let's get to class. We are almost late."
"I say we skip."
"I am not running 30 laps because of your stubbornness," Sakura grabbed Kira by the ear and began dragging him to the shrine. "I swear if you weren't my childhood friend, I wouldn't bother with you."
"But you still love me," he grinned stupidly towards the girl before freeing his damaged ear.
Sakura smiled as well and they began to walk up the steps.
Kurama sat up on his futon. His head was killing him. How many bottles of sake had he had again? He noticed that the two girls were sleeping on either side of him. He detangled himself from them and then looked for his clothes. Finding them thrown to the opposite side of the room, he put them on slowly and stumbled his way to the hall. He walked down the hall and down the stairs clumsily, gripping the wall for support and tripping several times.
Kota shook his head in disapproval at Kurama's pitiful state. "I told you fucking around was a bad idea."
"Shut up," the kitsune snapped at the other demon.
"Here are the details for the new assignment from Koenma." Kota threw the scroll to Kurama, who caught it after deciding which of the three scrolls was the real one. Though no on couldn't really tell that he had problems, and if some one did, said demon would probably kill them.
"The village is called Kage (3). Home to the most powerful humans known to demons. They are Qigong masters. They are descendants of the very first Chinese settlers that first arrived in Japan, who swore their allegiance to the shogunate. Their spirit powers are stronger and more precise than any monk or priest, and their martial arts and swordsmanship is better than any samurai. On top of that, they handle demon energy pretty well. There are classified as a B or low level A demon."
"Nice introduction. Long and boring. Tell me, how long did you spend practicing it?"
"Just telling you the stuff you won't bother reading over in your sorry state."
"You are correct. I probably would not have read it over, but tell me this, why is Spirit World sending me on such a simple mission?"
"Mainly for the second part of the mission. The first part of the mission as you know is a simple assasination. The second part is more difficult. The village has something that needs to be destroyed. A weapon of some sort, but Spirit World does not know what it is. As one of the highest and skilled demons, you can discretely get into the village and find out what the weapon is and destroy it. That's why they choose you, and you know what will happen if you refuse the mission."
Kurama flicked his tail to show his annoyance. "Yeah, yeah, my soul will suffer for eternity in the nether world. I know. You are very long winded you know that," he said in a bored voice.
"Beware, Kurama," Kurama's eyebrow twitched in annoyance as Kota began speaking again. "There is one warrior who is said to be as strong as an S-class. That is stronger than you. Don't do take unnecessary risk."
"I'll take heed of the warning. Just shut up already. Your worrying is sickening (4)." Kurama turned to leave but suddenly stopped and turned to Kota. "By the way, do you have medicine for headaches?" He looked so serious, Kota began laughing.
After a few minutes of laughing, and a few death threats from a certain demon, Kurama finally got his medicine and left for his journey to the Kage village.
(1) There is no guns in this time period so I decided to change it to arrow.
(2) Qigong is Kung Fu that controls energy; originally originated in China. It's purpose is to cure illnesses or attack enemies from far away. Can be used to expel demons.
(3) Japanese for the word "shadow".
(4) Does that seem to be something Hiei would say, or is that just me?
I know this chapter sucks. I'm sorry for any grammer or spelling errors. I'm trying. I really am. I was rushed because I was trying to update before the holidays was over, and I did with a few minutes to spear. I did however make it longer like people wanted it. I'm sorry if the part with Sakura and Kira seemed to be written wierd. it was not what I originally wrote because I wanted to make Kira into Yusuke's previous life. I promise I'll fix it soon. Anyway, Review!