Fields Of Hope Sequel to Fields of Promises
By Youkiyra Solar Alias Krystal Fox
Krystal Fox: This story idea is my own, but all characters do to with YuYuHakusho are not mine but those who created it.
Ch 8 For old times sake
The hours ticked by and Kurone and Youko slept. They were tired over the course of several days they had done impossible things. Light woke to the smell of smoke. Looking around saw that one of the candles had gotten blown out.
Dark smiled from across the room whispering, "I think I blew too hard, sorry 'bout the smoke."
Light just smiled, coughing a little said, "It's alright but I think we should find something to eat in this place, I know that they will be hungry when they wake up."
"And you won't?" Dark asked looking at Light. Light was well known for skipping meals just because she didn't feel like eating, or putting out the effort to get something.
"Yes maybe for me too." Light said sighing, or not she thought.
Dark and Light scoured the room looking for something edible when Light realized something. Something that was obvious.
"Dark, there is no food in this room and never has!" She rolled her eyes and went to disturb the fox.
"Fox, wake up!" She shook his shoulder lightly.
He barely moved, his tail flicked slowly and he sighed.
"If you don't wake up I will use the wake up tack-tic (not how it's spelled oh well)"
He didn't move a muscle.
"Alright that's what you get for ignoring me." Light reached down.
Dark smirked from behind her with Kurone who had woken at the commotion. He was grinning like a Cheshire cat.
Light gently touched Youko's many tails and rubbed them the wrong way. A yelp exploded from the fox like never heard before, it sent his old partner and his wife to the floor in hysteria. Light kept brushing the tails the wrong way till Youko jumped out of bed yelling for his plants.
"Restraining vines!"
Vines appeared out of no where and pinned Light to the wall, a very irate fox stood in front of her and glared. He smoothed out his tails and petted them in a very vain way to correct the mess his woman had created.
"You are a nuisance."
"You sleep too hard."
"Do not" the fox replied
"Do too," Light exclaimed from her chained position.
"You rise too early." He complained looking around the room, glaring at the other two who were still chuckling.
"You don't rise at all." Light said rolling her eyes.
"Are you trying to start an argument?" Youko asked in question.
"NO!" She yelled, "NOW LET ME DOWN!!!!" Her feet were four inches off the ground and it was bothering her that she couldn't feel her toes.
"Why?" Youko asked now in control of the situation.
"Er! The thing I hate about an argument is it always interrupts a good discussion! So now I am starting an argument. PUT ME DOWN!!!" Light said irately. She did not like the numbing feeling that was creeping up her legs from lack of blood circulation.
Youko oblivious to this fact kept going, "I think I will leave you up there to learn a lesson while I go get some food for us to eat."
He turned and disappeared out the window. If the fox's woman's glares could kill Youko would have been dead over a 1,000 times.
"That is why I woke him up!" Light said exasperated. "Can you guys figure out a way to get me down? I can't feel my legs."
Kurone a little concerned nodded, "These vines can be coaxed to let you go." The bat's firm hands ran along some of the vines, pushing here, pulling there, ever so surely loosening the vines till finally a thump of Light falling to the ground was made known.
"Thanks Kurone," Light said from the floor, "I don't think I will be walking for awhile." Staring down at her tingling legs glaring at them for not walking right away even though it was not their fault.
Dark sat beside her friend, "Will you be okay?"
"I think so, I just need to let my blood start circulating again." Light stared at Kurone,
"Where is Youko getting food?"
"How he does it best? He will snag some of the best foods for us to taste and enjoy.
Youko was always wanting only the best for himself. Boy is that fox vain."
From the window they hear a silky voice, "Vanity, Vanity, thy name is beauty!" Youko climbed through chuckling at Kurone's comments.
"I thought you would have learned a long time ago that foxes are very vain creatures, who are not afraid to admit it."
"Or flaunt it." Light said snatching the bag from Youko and dragging it to the floor beside her. Opening it she found mince meat pies, fresh fruits, bread, wine, and several jugs of water.
"Hm food." Light said with little or no enthusiasm.
Everyone else picked up something to eat. Kurone an apple, Youko a small bowl of raspberries and one of the personalized sized wine bottles, Dark the a small mince meat pie. Light grudgingly took one of the apples in the bag but didn't eat it. She just ran her fingers over the skin of the apple enjoying the smooth textured feel.
"I want to go for a walk." Light said suddenly, "I don't want to be locked up in this cramped room." She said eyeing the small rooms' walls.
"No." Youko said continuing eating his berries.
"What did you say?" Light demanded.
Kurone and Dark exchanged a look, they could both see another fight coming on. It seemed that since they had arrived in this room the two were going to be on each other's nerves.
To nip the problem in the bud Kurone rose and said, "I need to stretch my wings anyhow, I will take you for a short walk and we will return shortly."
Youko was about to protest when he saw the look on Light's face that said, there was no way that he could stop her. And when that look came on you couldn't stop her. No matter what.
"Fine. Be careful." Youko said in a cold voice.
Light barely nodded as Kurone helped her out the window. Only then did Dark notice the abandoned apple where her friend had been sitting.
"She didn't eat."
Youko looked over and said, "Why are females so dang confusing?"
"If I knew the answer to that question Youko, I would use it against her. She is one stubborn woman." Dark said scooping up the apple and putting it back into the bag.
"When they get back we have to force that woman to eat. She is going to loose more weight if she doesn't eat. I don't care what she says, she must eat." Dark said absentmindedly.
Youko was anxious, now that Light was out of his sight he had a bad feeling, just like before Kurone nearly got killed one time. He was sure that something was going to go wrong soon.
"Dark, come on, we need to follow them"
She looked confused for a second and then saw the serious look on his face. Without questioning the fox stood up and let him help her out the window.
"I am going to tie a vine to your waist. In this town you can never be too careful." Winding a thick vine around her waist, so as to not loose his best friend's wife.
He sniffed the wind, he could smell Light, they had gone towards the docks. Kurone seemed comfortable but Youko didn't dare not trust the bad feeling running through his veins.
Kurone laughed as Light flipped off another adorning demon. Light was ticked so anything even small was making her cause pain and suffering.
"You really need to watch your temper little Light."
"I am not Little BAT!!!" Light said in her anger, since Youko had refused to let her do something she was determined to do it. She was just that kind of person. If you tell her no you will find that she has gone and done it. Tell her yes then she might or might not do it, that's just the kind of person that she was.
Kurone tapped her shoulder, "Look," he said from behind so that she could see what he was pointing at. She looked he was pointing at a port ship, it was beautifully made, all the wood seemed to have some kind of carving and design. There one the port side of the ship a slowly weaving pattern moved to the front of the ship in the form of a string of coins. They had been carved into the ship as if to represent some important meaning.
"Why is the ship carved like that? I don't see any other ships like that one." She said scanning the docks.
"That's because that ship for a high ranking official or lord. It could be his represented or the person himself, but they always get to have ships beautifully made. I believe Youko fell in love with the carving of wood and has mastered the carving of it into anything wood back at our caves."
"that would be love…" she didn't get a chance to finish her sentence as a heavy weight suddenly fell on her and all went black.
Kurone cried out, the weight pushing down on him seem to crush his wings. They hurt terribly. Then after a few seconds all that he saw was blackness and he heard Light cry out in pain, and then nothing.
Raasin waved farewell to Yuusuke's group smiled largely at Shizuru. "Be back soon my heir. Do bring your companions."
Yuusuke shook his head, "I do think that he's gone a little too soft in the head."
"Why would you say that?" Shizuru said softly.
"Because even though he won't go and eat humans anymore, he still really despises the race and he not only talked civilly to you but he seemed to enjoy the conversation!" Yuusuke said in a loud voice.
Hiei stood on the forecastle staring out at the waters. In half a day they would arrive at the docks of the city where black marketing is how you survived. He might just stay on the ship. Too many lower class demons to bother him or get in his way. That would just make him irate and he didn't want to waste energy on something that just wasn't worth it. The sound of water was quiet and gentle against the boat unlike the screeching and yowling that would be in the markets. Yes he would just stay on the boat.
Krystal Fox: Sorry for so long with the updates, but again my computer is evil and is against me updating and it does everything possible to not let me update, so I am trying something new that hopefully works okay. Here goes nothing.