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 9 Gone to the dogs
The bat slowly woke to a pain in his back, automatically he looked back as saw that strong iron clamps had been put on his wings to keep him from moving his wings.
"They are so going to cramp up." Kurone thought.
Then he looked around he was in a square cell with three walls, no windows and the only light was through the bars that were in front of him, thus the entrance. His wrists were tightly secured with cuffs that were cutting his circulation off. At the time he could not feel his fingers. Then looking around saw that his scythe had been left on his person but he knew that there was no way he could possibly get to the scythe in his condition. He shuffled to his knees and tried to contact Kurama. When he did all he got was a massive headache.
"Wait." Kurone thought, "Kurama. His woman." Looking around he could not see Light. Where had they taken the priestess of time?
Light woke to the sound of other female voices murmuring. She looked around and saw she was in a room with other women that were barely clad with any clothes and what clothes they did wear showed their form far too much for Light's liking. Looking down saw that to her horror! She wore the same kind of clothing that the others in the room wore. Standing she looked to the one woman a lizard looking demon that seemed ot be in charge and said, "I require a cape, or long tunic, I will not wear this without it." Other women in the room crowded around Light.
"What?" One asked, "Why don't you want to show off your beautiful form? It will earn you a kind master who wants to preserve such beauty."
This went on and on till Light saw at one side of the room there was a long tunic that seemed to be a man's and grabbed it and slipped it on. It covered her modestly just to about her lower thigh. Satisfied that she was covered more asked, "How did I get here?"
A cat demon woman turned and said, "You were brought here in the latest shipment of bed-slaves."
"BED-SLAVES!!!!!" Light said with a horror that was shown on her face.
"Yes. You will be sold along with 4 other females and 5 other males today at market." The demon said it so calmly that Light wanted to go over and strangulate her for making it sound so normal.
The woman continued, "You will be inspected by those buying you and then the auction will begin."
Light muttered as she walked away, "There is no damn way that they are going to inspect my person, I'll show them." Then as she thought about it, where was the bat that must also be suffering a similar fate.
Yuusuke walked along the docks and arrived at the market. "I can't believe I am demon slave shopping for him. Can't he send someone else to do this dirty work." He looked around and rolled his eyes as he saw Kuwabara ogling several of the "beautiful" women that were being displayed.
"Idiot." Yuusuke said hitting him on the back of the head, "We are looking for an intelligent woman who can manage a demon King's affairs, not have an affair."
Kuwabara nodded dumbly, "Sure Urameshi, whatever…Hey are those kind of slaves supposed to be really…well you know…visible? And doesn't she look familiar?"
Yuusuke sighed, and turned around and sure enough there was a line of females wearing next to nothing and one female wearing a tunic that looked familiar.
"That's Raasin's seal mark!"
There on an upper corner of the tunic that the woman wore was a mark that revealed that whoever wore the tunic belonged to Raasin.
Yuusuke could see the woman was uncomfortable and didn't like all the suggestive eyes looking at her. One demon tried to get up close to "examine" her person and the demon was knocked to the ground with a very hard punch.
He sighed again, "Let's go get her out of there. Maybe she is what Raasin needs."
Walking up to the slave master declared, "Why are you selling an already owned slave demon?"
The demon master looked around and paled as he saw Yuusuke and then the mark on the woman's tunic.
"I am sorry my lord I did not know."
"Like hell you did. Now had her over." He said in a demanded tone.
The demon hurried and ordered some slaves to haul the woman over to them and they did completely ignoring her glaring looks.
Yuusuke looked at her and said, "Well come on." He turned o leave until the orange haired lug tapped his shoulder.
"Urameshi she isn't moving."
Turning around the woman hadn't moved from where the slavers had abandoned her.
"Would you please come on I really don't want to have to use force, Keiko would kill me." Yuusuke said to this woman.
"Why should I trust you? You a demon just like all the others." She said in demon tongue.
"I swear on my royal demon blood that I will not lay a hand on you to harm you. Satistified?" He asked with his hands in the air.
"Okay." She said softly. "But I need to find a friend, he was also drug into this slavery and I need to find him."
Yuusuke thought about this, if they helped this woman out and found her friend, then they would have two servants for Raasin. He liked the sound of that. "Okay what does your friend look like?"
"He is quite tall, has bat wings, a strange almost ruined hat on his head and is wearing all leather, with many belts, he had a scythe but they probably took that from him." She said now walking with them. Her demon slave cuffs clinking with walking.
"You mean like that freaky guy over there?" Kuwabara asked, pointing in the direction of a fighting ring.
They all looked and saw the very person described fighting for his life in a demon blood-bath ring against 4 very strong ring fighters, with his bare hands. One of the other fighters held a scythe, the bat's scythe, and was doing a horrible job of using it, allowing the bat to fight back.
"We have to stop this!" The woman yelled, "He'll get hurt."
Suddenly Yuusuke could see almost fox like appendages appear on her head, and a swishing tail of beautiful white begin twitching. This woman was a fox demon, so it seemed. What was she doing with a bat demon? Oh well he would find out later. Right now he needed to save the bat from an untimely death.
He jumped carelessly into the ring and landed on one of the demons killing him instantly. The bat grabbed up his discarded scythe and quickly disposed of the other three. A demon in the crowd yelled, "Why did you stop it? You should die!!."
A very angry demon master came charging out of a side door, using the clamps on the bat's wrists to force him to his knees. What #! Do you think you are doing! You just killed my best ring fighters."
Yuusuke stood calmly and let his energy show, the demon flinched, then recognized who he was. "I believe you have stolen property that is mine." He said calmly. "As you can see this demon's mate is mine so he belongs to me also." He said motioning to the woman at the sidelines with Kuwabara.
The demon now was shaking with fear, "My lord I am sorry I did not intend to…"
"But you did, so now you must return him to me and pay a fine. You will send 100 kilos of gold to Lord Raasin or suffer a thousand deaths." Yuusuke said helping the bat to his feet and leading him over to the wall where he climbed over and stood next to the woman. Now Yuusuke could see that there were clamps tightly bound over the bat's wings, "Ouch that has to be painful."
"You there," He said to the demon cowering, "Take those clamps off of his wings."
"I can't without a smithy my lord."
Yuusuke paused he would just get Hiei to do it. Ignoring the lowly demon he jumped the wall and motioned the two to follow him.
"You really got them Urameshi!" Kuwabara said, "Wow who knew that all your demon heritage would come in handy looking for slaves for Raasin."
The bat murmured something to the fox and he heard chuckling.
"Hey you two!" Kuwabara said boldly, "What are your names?"
They exchanged looks and the bat said, "I am Kuro and this is Light."
(For safety measures Kurone didn't want them to know his full name.)
Kuwabara nodded and then turned around. They arrived at the boat and Kuwabara waved at Shizuru. Hiei stood silently at the bow staring at them.
"Light," Kurone said silently, "Mate? Where did he get that?"
Light smiled, "I think since I was so insistent about finding you he thinks we have to be mates. Otherwise it is strange for a fox demon to care about a bat demon."
"That is true, why did you become a fox? Is it being in Makia for a long time again?" He said moving his shoulders a little to move the discomfort of the pain.
"I think so, but you would think living in Makia at the house for so long it would be the same, maybe it's just reflex?" She said thinking about it. "Are you hurting?" She said motioning to his wings.
"Yes but what can I say. Pain is inevitable Suffering is optional" He said with a soft yet pained look. "Isn't that the little fire demon that was helping look for us?" Kurone said looking at Hiei.
"Why yes it is?….Kurone, they don't recognize us! They don't know that it is us who they are looking for." Light said alarmed.
"Well then we will have to act our parts for the time being until we figure out how to get away from them and back to Youko." He said as they were escorted onto the awaiting ship.
At the slave market, Youko had just scared the bed-slaver demons into telling him where Light had gone, running fast met with Dark. Dark had stayed in a safe house waiting for him.
"They got sold as slaves, it seems also as if a representative of Raasin came and got Light and Kurone and is taking them back to the property of Raasin. I can't let them get into the palace. From what I hear, Raasin is looking for another demon bed-partner and hierarchy man slave for punishment duty."
"What does that mean? Punishment duty?" Dark said half running to keep up with Youko's long strides.
"That means if one of his better slaves disobeys and he doesn't want to ruin them he will use Kurone much like a whipping boy in the human realm. He will get all of their punishments." Youko said with a voice of extreme anger. He would not let his best friend be submitted to such low-life punishments.
Krystal Fox: Well it's been awhile, I am trying harder but it seems that the harder I try the more the computer world is against me. Oh well. Enjoy!!!!