Disclaimers Note: I Do Not Own Yu Yu Hakusho.
Authors Note: This chapter is long. I hope you enjoy. I really should have split this into two chapters but I had this bolt of inspiration that led me to this chapter. I had to work on this over a long period of time when I just had in my head. It all just became this one long chapter because it will go with the rest of my story. I also apologize for the long wait but I have finally posted and I ask you to please read. Thank-You.
Blue Light
Chapter Eight
The earth glowed with a green not of the norm. It was a sickly green. A glowing, humid gas, rising from the ground. The trees seemed dark and dreary, the grass dropped in a sad gray, and the water that flowed across planes and over mountains, was black and grim.
Running through it all was a young girl, her eyes overflowing with tears, and her feet bare and scarred.
"Get away from me!" The girl shouted, looking over her shoulder. "Leave me alone!"
The girl cried on as she ran, the ground beneath her feet became muddy. She felt herself sinking into the ground and she started to scream.
Then suddenly, a hand grabbed the girl's arm, pulling her up from the mud...
Genkai shot up from a bed, screaming and then gasping for air, and clutching her heart. However, no sounds came her screams. No air for her to breathe. Nobody anywhere.
Where was she?
Genkai frantically crawled out of bed but once she placed her foot out of the bed, she fell forward but then caught herself on the bedpost.
Genkai couldn't take it any longer so she slid down to the floor.
All around her was black. The dark was so thick…
Suddenly, the air lifted and Genkai took large gasps of air. She heaved in and out, in and out.
"Genkai?" Said a soft female voice.
Confused, Genkai looked around. The voice was coming from above; Botan looked up.
"Genkai?"
Genkai saw nothing but moving blue stars, falling lightly down towards her. Genkai reached for one close to her but it burst right as it touched her palm. Then just after, a figure of a girl appeared with her arms outstretched. Her face was shadowed but that didn't mean Genkai didn't know who she was…
Genkai tears started to run down her face.
But the dark started to pull away and coming out from the ground we're roots of plants, water gushing out in endless amounts, and clouds and stars and moons and suns rotated themselves around her.
The girl disappeared just as Genkai reached her.
Genkai clutched at her clothes, sitting on her knees. Her tears rolled down her face and into the rising water, encircling roots, and everything else.
"Why?" Genkai cried out, the sound of her voice coming back. "Why?
"Genkai…" A faded voice echoed throughout the filling room.
"NO!" Genkai shouted, crying.
"Genkai!" The voice was louder this time. It was also different and more familiar.
"Enough!" Genkai screamed.
"Genkai!"
Genkai instantly opened her eyes to find herself in the midst of the water, roots, and everything else.
Genkai didn't hesitate. She placed her hand into the extended hand and was pulled up into the sky.
Genkai awoke to find herself in His arms, the rain coming down on them both. She looked around to see them surrounded by trees. She gazed down at her hands, and placed them to her face to feel her skin.
She was young.
She was at full power.
Genkai cursed as she gazed up at the tree that kept her imprisoned. All she could remember was sending Kiyoshi off and then being sucked into a black-hole.
"How did you know where I was?" Genkai asked.
"I always know." He whispered.
Genkai looked away. "You'd better go."
"I'm not leaving."
Genkai stood, lifting herself out of His arms. "You should."
"Where are you going?"
"To find an old friend."
"I'm coming with you." He said.
Genkai walked on ahead. "If you can keep up." Just before Genkai was about to run, He shout her name.
"Genkai!"
Genkai stopped but didn't turn around.
"I understand why couldn't tell me."
Genkai just stood there, the rain pouring down around them. After a few seconds, Genkai started to run. There was no time to sit around and dwell on the past…
She knew what she needed to do.
"We can't just sit around and wait for this bitch to come out!" Marie snarled, standing in front of a large tree. Nothing around them but darkness and the semi-glow from the tree.
"Your going to have to, sister." A voice snapped out.
The tree suddenly twisted around as the leaves cascaded down around it and Marie. Its branches warped outward, like a flower blooming in the spring, to reveal a little girl.
This little girl had long, flowing black hair. Her eyes were the clearest of green and her skin, fair and creamy. She wore a pink kimono with green trimmings and gold stitches. She sat in the middle in one of the crooks of the tree.
"Half sister, you twit!" Marie spat, flying towards the little girl. "Just because you have my blood running through your veins, Lavita, remember its only half of what I have!"
"I may be a half-blood but unlike you," Lavita smirked. "I've got more than half of my brains.
"Why you filthy-" Marie shrieked, throwing up her hands to gather energy.
"Marie." Lavita said, "I would like to remind you that without me-you lose."
Marie slowly put down her hands, scowling.
Lavita smiled coolly. "You would like that, hum? You would like to see me destroyed, wouldn't you?" Lavita slid down the trunk of her tree as her sister followed her down.
Marie crossed her arms as she stood in midair. "We can't just wait for Isis to just pop up! We are loosing souls and we need to feed her soon."
Marie jumped down from off her tree and landed on the ground. "She can hold out. We have to do things slowly or it will just blow up in our faces."
Lavita started to walk away as Marie shouted out.
"So how dose it feel like to care for someone who doesn't give a shit about you?"
Lavita stopped in her tracks.
Marie flew to her sister and from behind Lavita, Marie's her lips near her ear. "How dose it feel to have your very-own-mother hate you?"
Lavita snapped her head to the side.
Marie threw back her head and laughed. As she turned, over her shoulder she said, "I don't need to destroy you, Lavita. I think mother did a fine job on that."
Lavita didn't say a word. She just walked away.
Lavita walked on through the darkness, her eyes straightforward at all times.
Lavita could see her destination, she could see the cold figure of a woman. She enclosed in a large glass chamber filled with dark-gases and electric currents running through the air. Lavita could see the roots of her tree holding the chamber up.
Lavita pressed a hand to the glass to gaze at a woman she didn't know…
Her mother.
Botan awoke, her head groggy.
"Botan, your awake!"
Botan jumped up, turning her head to the side to see a worried Yukina, and through the door comes running Yusuke, Keiko, and Kuwabara.
"I'm sorry to scare you!" Yukina said, sitting down next to Botan, and placing a hand on Botan's elbow.
"What happened?" Yusuke asked, running towards the bed.
Botan sighed, her hands releasing her shirt. Her eyes shut, a pained look overcame her face.
"How long have I been-" Botan stopped talking, wincing as she placed a hand on her side.
"A day and a half." Keiko said softly, sitting down at the edge of the bed.
Botan opened her eyes and smiled. "I'm sorry for the trouble."
"Oh, Botan!" Yukina cried, grabbing Botan's hands. "You are no trouble at all."
"Yeah, Botan! It's not your fault that you were injured!" Kuwabara protested. He smiled, "But I gotta say that it's been real quiet around here without you!"
Botan laughed as well as everyone else.
"Yeah," Yusuke said. "Also been kind of slow without you around."
Botan looked up at Yusuke, his smile beaming down at her.
Botan laughed, which seemed to lift the spirits of everyone a little bit more.
Yusuke placed a hand on Botan's knee, not really thinking about it.
No one noticed except for Keiko, who blinked at his sudden action.
It was so-
Un-Yusuke.
-.Keiko, not know what to do or think, turned a little. "Lets go everyone!" Keiko cheered, turning back around with a big smile. "Let Botan have some rest, yes?" Keiko ushered everyone out. Maybe Yusuke's just worried about his friend, Keiko thought as she pushed people out the door.
"But I have to stay with her just in case she needs something!" Yukina protested.
"No worries!" Keiko smiled in assurance, "Yusuke can stay with her!"
Yusuke and Botan looked at Keiko, who smiled at them. "We'll be looking for lunch to bring! See ya' in a few!"
Before she left the room, Keiko thought, yes. Just a friend. Worried about a friend. That's all.
Keiko sighed, walking out the door.
Just a friend.
Yusuke stood looking down at Botan, her eyes meeting his own. Botan finally broke the gaze, "I hate it when you do that."
Yusuke raised a brow, "Do what?"
"When you save me." Botan grinned, "Always the hero, huh?"
Yusuke laughed. "You know me, Bo. I love a damsel in distress!" Yusuke wiggled his ears, "Admit it! It's sexy!"
Botan gagged. "Not really. Arrogant is a better word."
Yusuke and Botan laughed as Yusuke pulled a chair to the side and sat down in it.
"So what's been happening so far?" Botan asked, turning to face Yusuke.
Yusuke sighed, "Well, we're stuck on this island. Pissing me off, really."
"Everything makes you mad."
"Says who?"
"Says those who have felt your wrath." Botan pointed out.
Yusuke grinned, "Hey, you've got a temper, too!" Yusuke then looked to the sky in thought, "Which is usually always directed to me..."
Botan laughed.
However, in a split second, Botan gasped as she felt a throbbing pain in her heart and pictures flashing through her mind.
A girl being pulled up through the mud.
A fading sun...
A dark moon...
A phoenix, white with a blue streak...
"Botan!" Yusuke shouted as he saw Botan gasp, clawing at her heart, and looking up into the sky. Yusuke climbed onto the bed and the took Botan into his arms.
Once Yusuke had Botan fully in his arms, she became normal.
Her eyes cleared to see Yusuke's brown eyes.
"Oh Yusuke!" Botan cried, burying her face into his chest. "It hurts... and I don't know why!"
Yusuke drew Botan in closer, "Botan...I'm here." Yusuke stroked Botan's back in rhythm with her fading sobs.
"I keep remembering things, Yusuke." Botan whispered. "My phoenix... the color of pure snow and ice-blue eyes."
"Sounds better than my freakin' phoenix." Yusuke told the sniffling girl; She laughed, her arms wrapping around Yusuke's waist.
Silence overtook the room.
The only sounds were the easy breathing from the two, the murmuring voices behind the closed door, and the rushing wind against the window of the room.
Botan looked up at Yusuke. "I don't have any parents. Did I ever tell you that?"
Yusuke didn't say anything.
Botan looked back down and went on. "I was found running when I was three. I fell into quicksand. Then out of the blue came this large-winged phoenix, and pulled me out of the sand."
Yusuke pushed Botan's bangs from her eyes.
"I was taken to King Yama to become a Ferry Girl. He took me under his wing, where I was taught the stages of birth, life, and death. He even let me keep my phoenix with me. I called it Kiyoshi."
"Same name as that bird of mine, huh?" Yusuke grinned, "You must have loved that bird a lot."
"He was all I had." She whispered softly. She closed her eyes, "I don't remember much about before but when I met Kiyoshi."
Yusuke pulled Botan up so that the top of her head rested at the crook of his neck.
"Botan…" Yusuke sighed.
Botan looked up with tears in her eyes. "Yeah?"
"You've got me."
Botan blinked and the slowly smiled. "I do, don't I?"
Yusuke stared into Botan's magnificent pink eyes. They stayed like this for a moment until Yusuke started to cough and climbed off the bed.
"Yeah! And you've got Kurama, and Hiei-though he might not show it. And Kuwabara-when he's not stuck on Yukina…" Yusuke started to laugh nervously.
Botan blinked once again and then started to laugh.
"Where are those boys?" Botan laughed.
Yusuke smiled. "Outside. You already saw Kuwabara, that idiot…"
Botan smiled. "I think I'm ready for people now."
Yusuke grinned.
"You'd better be ready," Yusuke sighed, shaking his head. "They all love you a lot so they might just be a little attached."
A few moments later, Botan was sitting with a worried Keiko, crying Yukina, an aggravated Shizuru (she was told by Keiko that she couldn't smoke around Botan due to her injuries), a pissed off Hiei (mad about not getting to kill Kinda when he had the chance), a weary Kurama (who was trying to get everyone out of the room with no such luck), and a laughing Yusuke at the whole thing.
Kuwabara stepped in the room, carrying a cup of water, and food. "Look what I found," Kuwabara sang.
Botan took one look at Kuwabara and jumped. "Kuwabara, I love you!"
Kuwabara laughed, winking at the blue-haired maiden. "You always did. You just love me even more!"
Botan laughed as he placed the food on her lap and her drink next to her on the dresser.
"Thank you, Kuwabara." Botan smiled at him, "You seem sane today."
Kuwabara blushed. "Yeah, well…I just kind of had a good day. You know," he coughed, "this mourning and with you waking up and everything."
Botan smiled.
Yusuke was just about to ask exactly why Kuwabara was so happy about when he heard someone whisper his name.
Yusuke turned to the side to see no one so he turned behind him.
That's when her heard a very familiar Irish-speaking elf…
"Botan! MY LOVE!"
Yusuke whipped around to see Jin running past him and towards Botan.
"DAMN YOU ELF!" Yusuke shouted, waving his fist.
Jin bended down on one knee as he took Botan's hand into his. "Yusuke, that awful lad, would not let me see you! Darling, are you okay? I'm sorry for not being here when you awoke."
Jin pressed his lips to the back of Botan's hand.
Botan's face blew up the color of cherries.
Yusuke had steaming coming out of his ears!
"Um…" Botan stammered, blushing. "I'm fine, thank you…"
Jin lifted his face to gaze up at Botan, his ears wiggling just like Yusuke had done earlier, and a huge grin across his face.
Botan laughed out with glee as Jin flirted and joked.
Yusuke grumbled, walking out into the room to sit next to Koenma, who had his leg propped up on a burnt coffee table.
"Is she alright, then?" Koenma asked Yusuke.
Yusuke grunted, which Koenma took for a yes.
Ogre came running through the door, "Koenma!" He shouted. Once he spotted Koenma, Ogre ran to the side and whispered into Koenma's ear.
Koenma's face turned from confusion to anger in a split second.
"When?" Koenma asked.
Ogre bowed, "Just now. Its been said she is heading to the Northern Gates of Inara."
"WHAT?" Koenma shouted, jumping up into the air in anger. Completely forgetting about his leg, Koenma fell down on it and then started to shout and curse.
"What happened?"
Kurama stood up from his seat as Hiei and Touya stepped in from out in the hallway.
Koenma growled. "It seems as if Genkai has taken it upon herself to capture Marie on her own."
"That doesn't sound like something Genkai would do." Kurama said.
"Yes, sounds a bit more like what Yusuke would do." Hiei muttered.
"Hey!" Yusuke shouted, "What's that's supposed to mean?"
"Well, she's not really thinking." Kurama explained, "She's doing something off of hand, like you like to do at times."
"You do do that sometimes, Yusuke." Keiko admitted as she helped Koenma get seated and trying to fix his torn bandages.
Yusuke growled. "Just get on with it Koenma."
Koenma shook his head. "I need to explain something to you all." Koenma looked down at his leg, "Genkai was the one who I first informed of the Blue Light Prophecy. The Prophecy was made by one of the Spirits of Fortune. However, the Prophecy itself is a mystery because it came as a complex vision to the Spirit. The vision was so powerful that it took four whole days for the Spirit to awaken. Even when she was awake, the Spirit would sit there and gaze up into the sky for hours. Once she collected herself, the Spirit could only give my handlers bits of her vision. For sure, she did mention of the Spirit Detective, the Champion or rather the Guardian of the Blue Light. However, she was unclear about how the Spirit Detective was linked to the Guardian. I told Genkai because she is one of my father's closest advisors."
"Once I mentioned the Blue Light, Genkai stood up as if she were in shock. She demanded to be taken to the Spirit but I had to refuse her. Genkai regained herself, she explained to me about Blue Light. I did not know much about Blue Light. I only knew what I read from the Book of Enma. That was until she told me the story. I asked her how she knew all this and she told me it had to do with her family. Something about her father." Koenma looked up, "When I met Yusuke, I instantly notified Genkai. Genkai then set up her tournament to see for herself if we had the right guy for the job. Yusuke passed with flying colors but then the Dark Tournament came up and our search for the Blue Light was postponed. Genkai insisted on being one of the five fighters. I strongly objected to it but I let her come. It wasn't until the spirits started to fall from the sky in purple did I confront Genkai."
"She knew all along this would happen!" Yusuke shouted, "Why did you and her keep this from us?"
"Me?" Koenma shook his head, "I did no such thing. That night, Genkai confessed that she knew who Kin was. She said that Kin was one of her mentors as a child. Genkai told me that I had to trust her. She told me about Marie, Kinda's daughter or rebirth. Genkai told me she would tell a man a secret that she held onto for so long. Later on, she told me that she told him."
"Who is this man she talks of, eh?" Jin asked, propping himself against the couch.
"I don't know. She told me that he was an important factor to the Blue Light. I didn't ask any questions. However, I've had a few of my people follow her for safety precautions. I've learned that Genkai was telling me truth…"
"Then why worry?" Keiko asked as she kneeled next to Koenma.
Koenma looked to the side. "Genkai is the former Blue Light."
"Wait, so that means-" Kuwabara started.
Yusuke blinked as he said, "Genkai is part of Iris's line."
"To be more accurate," Koenma stated. "Genkai isIris's daughter."
The whole room became silent.
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