InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Chaos ❯ Prologue ( Prologue )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, YuYu Hakusho (As much as I'd love to) or any of the anime/manga characters.
Warnings: Violence and Strong Language
Prologue
 
Kagome awoke in a dark room, the scents of death and blood hitting her senses like a knife to the stomach. She turned on her bruised side and let her stomach contents, of which little remained, out on the stone floor.
“Something the matter, Kagome?” a dark voice asked on the other side of the room.
“I swear to any god that's listening that I'll kill you when I get out of here.”
“Ah, but how will you do that, I wonder? Let's take a look at the current events. You're not back with your little friends on the other side of the well, as they were foolish enough to fall into my trap. I have your beloved's precious weapon, which you couldn't use anyway. Your miko powers are currently not working. And you're chained to the floor of a dungeon where nobody will be looking for you. So tell me, what's the escape plan?”
Dark, blood-red eyes glared through the darkness at where the voice was, and a small, satisfactory smile formed on her lips.
“Oh, I'll show you, you bastard!”
She lunged through the darkness and felt her hands wrap around the throat of the man. Smoke began to rise from the skin in her grip, and she smirked, two long bones catching a glint of light from the solitary window.
“Ah, so you broke the chains then?”
“Fuck you!” she snarled before his head was viciously separated from the body below it. “I told you I wasn't going to let you get the jewel, and now I'm getting away from here.”
A brilliant flame engulfed the puppet's body as she ran out of the cell. She wasn't capable of seeing perfectly in the dark, but she could make shapes and outlines out. She found a massive, ornate door and it was promptly decimated by her fist.
As she ran along the disgusting, rancid corridors of the castle, she began to sense beings stirring around her. Just as she found a stairway, the top was stormed with hundreds of creatures, bearing down on her with thousands of weapons. As she fought her way up the staircase, she became steadily more wounded, and finally the last youkai was dead.
Blood rolling from her side, she stumbled through another hallway, and practically yelled in relief as she found a sword, trapped in a barrier, in an indentation in the wall. She ripped it from the energy around it and watched as the smoking, blistering burn on her skin quickly vanished. She again started for the exit, now with the only thing that was really important to her anymore.
She found a door several feet in front of her and quickly ran toward it.
Just before she reached it, the structure shook and the doors exploded in a wave of splinters. Kagome, despite her injuries, dove to the ground as four people charged into the building.
A cry of agony left her as the tip of a blade, which had been shoved all the way into her shoulder and was now jutting out, pushed into the bone, which began to crack.
Suddenly, she felt a hand wrap around the back of her neck and she was lifted off of the ground roughly.
“Hey, bitch! Where's the holding cells!? Tell us and you live,” a brash voice barked out from the darkness.
Suddenly, the hand released its grip as the owner was thrown away from her, a brilliant pink energy glowing from Kagome's body. She pulled the blade from her shoulder and it dropped to the stone floor with a clatter.
“Fucking demons,” she snarled. “Kiss my ass,” she bit out before stumbling through the doors. It didn't take long for the four to catch up with her, and she was instantly on the ground, her wounds being aggravated by the poisonous soil that entered them.
“That was the wrong answer,” he said before pressing his pointer finger to her forehead. “Now give me the right one, bitch.”
A dark chuckle came from the forest and Kagome snarled.
“Going from one imprisonment to another. This is a predicament, isn't it? What will you do now, Kagome?” a man asked as he appeared from the shadows of the forest.
Kagome knocked the man off of her and took off with incredible speeds.
“I'm sick of you! If you want to die, meet me face to face, you twisted bastard!”
Her hand smashed the man's face and he fell after a loud, echoing crunch came from his body.
As she followed through with her punch, the sudden change of weight on her legs threw her already-feeble balance. With a painful thud, she fell to the ground face-first.
“Son of a bitch,” she growled, realizing what was happening. “Stupid blood-loss.”
She began to push herself up when she felt a hand on her. Again.
With a snarl, she spun to the man, who she could now see perfectly. His face made her stop her claw, which had been quickly heading for his throat.
“Y… Yusuke?”
He blinked at her in confusion before taking in her appearance.
“Kagome? Is that you?”
“Not anymore,” she said before her eyes slid backward, into her skull. He caught her just before she hit the ground.
 
“You know her, detective?” Hiei asked, taking in the demoness's haggard appearance.
“Umm… Yeah. Or, I did… And she was not a demon the last time I saw her.”
“She doesn't appear to be a hanyo, either,” Kurama said as he inspected her bloody, wounded body. “Perhaps we should get her to Reikai for a healer.”
“We can't just leave. We need to find this stupid bitch for Koenma, so he'll stop hassling me.”
“I believe that the onna is the one we came for,” Hiei said as he watched purifying energy wrap around her unconscious body in self-defense.
“You think? That changes things…”
“How so?” Kurama asked.
“It's someone I know. I'd thought it was just some stupid bitch that they would need to get whatever the hell they want. From what Koenma told me, the thing that Enma's after is actually connected to her, and they want it. I'm not sure if you know this, but the process of screwing with someone's soul involves them going through a hell of a lot of pain. I'm not about to let someone that was so responsible she yelled at me for my first fight get that kind of a deal.”
“Regardless, she needs to be healed.”
“Why not take her to Genkai's? I'm sure she can do something,” Kuwabara suggested.
“It would appear to be the only option,” Kurama said as Yusuke gently lifted Kagome.
“Holy hell!” he barked as a powerful shock ran through his body.
“Fool,” Hiei sighed. “Her sword seems to not like you.”
“Yeah? It'll have to deal with it,” he growled as he again lifted her up.
He was shocked when, upon her body's removal from the ground, blood sprayed out of her back in several directions.
“What the hell!?”
“She's going to die of blood-loss, at this rate, detective,” Hiei sighed. “Perhaps I should get her back, as I'm the least likely to kill her wasting time.”
Yusuke grudgingly nodded and gently handed his bleeding friend to Hiei. The shock that had hit the detective either didn't hit Hiei or wasn't strong enough for him to care as her weight became supported by his arms. The second she was completely in his grip, they were both gone, a black blur vanishing into the woods…
 
Hiei ran through the forest, his eyes bleeding red as the sword shocked him in a random pattern, causing his arms to burn.
“Damned miko. Always more trouble than you're worth, the whole lot of you,” he growled as his third eye flared. Suddenly, a portal formed in front of him. He vanished through it and came out on the grounds of a temple.
As soon as he appeared, the blue-haired youkai looked up in surprise.
“What-”
“She needs to be healed,” Hiei sighed as the pain made his arms start to shake. She quickly led him through the temple and into a small room, where he quickly put her down on a bed. As soon as the sword wasn't in contact with him, Hiei's burnt arms started to heal rapidly, and the wounds were gone in mere minutes.
Yukina quickly got to work, trying to heal the various fatal-appearing wounds. Whatever had happened to her before they'd gotten there had obviously been a dangerous battle, and Hiei was amazed such a frail-looking woman had been able to apparently take whatever happened and live.
The sound of a door sliding open had Hiei's attention on the psychic who'd just entered, her eyes flying to Kagome.
“I thought I recognized the aura… What happened to her to put her in this condition?” she asked, walking past Hiei and looking down at the unconscious girl.
“We got there late. She had several wounds, and as the demons in the castle caused them, it was unlikely she was an enemy. Her wounds were worsened by her own stubbornness. Though the detective certainly seemed surprised.”
Genkai looked at the girl and smirked.
“Figures. Yusuke couldn't handle her if he used every bit of youki and reiki in his body.”
“You know her, then?”
“Yes. Quite some time ago. She was human then, and she didn't have such a strong aura. I have to say, I'm impressed you aren't dead, Hiei. This kind of power would render almost any youkai dead in seconds.”
Yukina quietly worked on the wounds, and suddenly her eyes flashed open.
“There's something trying to push me away… oh…”
Suddenly, a powerful blast of energy filled the room and Yukina was thrown back against the wall.
Kagome's eyes fluttered open at the sound of something snapping, and she looked to her side to find a blue-haired youkai indented into a wall behind her. Her eyes widened and she quickly sat up, moving to her side before her pains hit her.
“Yuki-onna, are you alright?” she asked the bleeding youkai, who looked at her with fear. It vanished when she saw Kagome's look of concern and confusion, and she quickly pushed herself out of the wall.
“I'll be alright. And I'm a koorime.”
“Same thing,” Kagome quickly responded, shrugging.
Kagome looked around, noticing one of the people from her captors' group. No, that wasn't right, she thought with a shake of her head. Yusuke had been part of the group. At least, it had looked like him.
“Okay… How did I get from the castle to here?”
“How were you in that castle to begin with?” the small apparition challenged.
Kagome closed her eyes and thought about that, images filling her mind like a fast-moving movie.
“I was stupid, and got taken prisoner about a week ago…”
“With the wounds you had, it had to have been longer than that,” the other youkai challenged.
“If it helps, these two are, technically, on your side, Kagome,” another voice said. Her head whipped around to finally see Genkai standing there, and she smiled.
“Master Genkai!”
“Nice to see you again, though the circumstances could be better.”
“Yes, yes, this is fascinating. But it would be rather convenient if you told me how you came to be in that castle now, onna.”
She turned to the youkai and smiled, showing her fangs.
“Pardon me if I don't trust you,” she said with a tone so cold the blue-haired youkai actually stepped back involuntarily. “I was imprisoned in a cell for an entire week, being tortured by a demon that I, by all accounts, should have been able to rip apart without a problem.”
“Then do tell us,” a new voice said, “how you got captured.”
Kagome's gaze turned to a red-haired man with two auras.
“Oh, shit! Shippo… Listen, not that this all isn't riveting and everything. I appreciate getting saved and everything… But you wouldn't happen to know the fastest way to the Higurashi Shrine from here?”
“The Higurashi Shrine? Why would a demon be interested in a shrine?” another man with fiery-orange hair asked.
He appeared to be the weakest of everyone present in the room, including the small, frail-looking blue-haired youkai. A goofy-looking face held deep, dull-looking brown eyes as well as a confused frown. The aura around him was a brilliant, light blue, similar to a miko's, but had the rough edges to it of youki.
“Unfortunately, it will be dangerous if you wander around, so you will need to take someone with you if you're going to go to a shrine,” the redhead said.
“Look,” she said testily, “I don't need a babysitter. What I need to do is go get someone important to me. There aren't many left, and now that I'm gone, that's where that bastard is going. So, again I ask, what's the fastest way to the Higurashi Shrine?”
“Relax, Kagome,” Genkai sighed. “Your family will be fine.”
“With all due respect, Master Genkai, they're not. They're dead. And right now, the only people still alive are at the shrine, and there's no way in Hell that he won't go for them.”
“Perhaps you should explain the situation,” the redhead said, starting to get on her nerves.
“I still don't get why a youkai would want to go to a shrine.”
“It's where she lives,” yet another new voice said. This one was familiar, and she stood stock-still.
“So it's really you, huh?”
“Long time no see, Kags.”
She turned to face him and found him smirking.
“I would say sorry about missing your funeral, but it looks like it was unnecessary. Since when are you a youkai?”
“I could ask the same thing,” he replied, his smirk not faltering.
“Alright, Yusuke. I'll answer if you tell me how to get to my shrine quickly.”
“I don't really know. It's probably three cities away.”
“Huh… Well, luckily, traveling isn't really a problem for me, in theory… Three cities?”
“Yeah, probably…”
“Alright then. Thanks,” she said before vanishing from the room.
“Hiei, follow her,” Genkai sighed. “She's strong, but I think the trail of blood she's leaving will be too obvious to anyone paying attention.”
“Blood? I healed her,” Yukina objected.
“Yes, but she's using youki to move faster. Whatever you managed to heal before she knocked you away, she's torn open.”
Hiei's eyes widened a fraction in understanding before he, too, vanished with a speed that, if you paid very close attention, appeared to be slower than Kagome's…
 
Kagome POV
Quickly, I launched through the air. While the things that had been done to me were an atrocity against nature, they gave me some obvious advantages.
With each time my feet met a new surface, pain lanced through my entire body. And every time, I ignored it as best as I possibly could and pushed off again. By the time I'd reached the second city's limits, I was hyperaware of the blood leaking from my side, and how it made my feet too slick to have good balance.
I started to jump again only to find myself pushing youki into the air underneath me so I could sustain myself.
Finally, I reached the familiar stone steps and half-stumbled, half-crawled up to the grounds. Immediately, I sensed the presences of my remaining loved ones and staggered toward the house.
“I smell blood,” a small, low voice said inside.
“And there's a strong youki nearby, too,” another added.
“Momma said that we should hide if a youkai attacked,” a third voice said shakily.
I reached the door and slid it open, completely aware of the blood that stuck to the paper from my hand.
As I stepped inside, I was met by a tall, orange-haired youkai with glistening fangs and bright, blue-green eyes. Three long, slender orange tails with streaks of cream-colored fur through them swung slowly behind the man.
“Who are you?” he asked, a cold edge to his voice.
“Shippo! That's amazing! You grew another tail in a week!?”
His eyes widened as he took in my bloody and, I'm positive, demonic appearance.
“Momma?”
“Yeah. I'm back, finally. I'm so sorry I couldn't be here to protect you guys, but I'm back now,” I said, a smile on my face. A large cloud of smoke filled the room and the man was gone, a small boy with a large, furry tail and wide green eyes in his place.
Two other children appeared, and the three quickly ran to me.
“You're bleeding!” a boy that appeared to be a few years older than Shippo with brown-black hair exclaimed.
“It's fine,” I sighed. “I just reopened some wounds getting here… Alright, children. We're going now.”
“But you're so injured!” the third child, a girl that appeared even younger than Shippo yelled.
I was about to soothe her when a strong youki suddenly appeared behind me.
“I believe you four should hide,” the apparition's voice said.
“I don't hide,” I bit out, turning to face him.
“Fine with me. Don't hide. But you'll just be going from one prison to another.”
“What are you talking about?”
Suddenly, the hair on the back of my neck stood up and I felt a strange energy filling the air.
I didn't know what the energy was, but I knew instinctively that it would be very bad if I was in the open when the source of the energy showed up.
“Kids, come on,” I said, quickly bringing them across the shrine grounds and to the well house, where there was a very small chance of being found.
 
Hiei POV
The woman quickly ran to a small shed, three children in tow. As soon as they were out of sight, the hunters appeared.
Three tall, pathetically weak minions appeared from a portal that formed.
“Hello, demon,” the one in command sneered.
“What the hell are you doing here?”
“And why aren't you with your team, hunting for the target in Makai?”
I eyed all three, taking in their stances. In a fight, they wouldn't stand a chance against me for more than a second. But killing Enma's pawns wasn't a wise decision, and I wasn't about to put my life on the line for a random woman simply because she knew the detective. But lying, fortunately, was my specialty.
“The target wasn't in Makai. Interestingly enough, there was a rather strange demon there, though.”
“A strange demon? What kind?”
“We weren't there long enough to find out,” I said with a shrug. “The target wasn't there, so there was no point staying there.”
“Don't lie, you stupid demon! We know for a fact that the stupid bitch was in that castle!”
“Regardless of what you know, the person we were looking for wasn't there. You said she would have a powerful, purifying aura. The entire castle was filled with youki and nothing else.”
Lying while adding truth to it, I'd found early in my life, was a good way to make it believable. The castle hadn't, in fact, had any miko energy. To sense the energy in the woman, you would have to peel away the thick coating of youki around her, which very few would be able to do.
“King Enma's information is infallible! Are you saying you failed to capture that bitch!?”
Capture?” I asked, making the minion that had said it gasp. “Odd thing to say, as I thought we'd been sent to rescue the jewel's protector.”
“She's dangerous, and we need to break her mind and gain the location of the jewel before someone else does.”
I eyed all three of them, a sense of anger rising as I gripped the hilt of my blade.
“I don't like being lied to, fools.”
“You're a dirty little demonic hybrid thief! What do we care what you like!?” the commander sneered. It vanished when I did, and his eyes widened in fear.
The pure terror from the Reikai minion as my sword pressed to his throat was truly invigorating, and I took a deep breath, pulling the scent of fear and adrenaline into myself.
“You shouldn't look down on those who can kill you, pawn,” I whispered, making the fear coming from him even stronger. “I suggest you leave my sight. I came here to find any clues about the miko, but it would seem that there was a rather large battle here. About a week ago, I would guess.”
I pulled the sword away and instantly, the fools were gone.
 
Narrator POV
Hiei quickly sheathed his blade and ran to the small shed. As soon as he slid the door open, Kagome stood up, the three children following suite.
“Who were they?”
“Those would be the fools that are hunting you.”
“They said you were sent to capture me,” she said, dropping to a defensive crouch.
“We were told that we'd be `rescuing' you, though it was obviously a lie. It would most likely be a good idea to get back to Genkai's.”
“That sounds like a good idea,” she said with a nod. “But I need some help.”
“With the amount of blood you've lost, you need to not move any more, onna.”
“I can move,” Kagome protested. “I just need you to use that ice inside of you to freeze my arm until I get to the temple.”
Hiei's eyes widened to the size of saucers, but he quickly regained his composure.
“You speak foolishly, onna.”
“My name's Kagome, so stop calling me onna,” she bit out. “I know you're part Yuki-onna, and for whatever reason, you think that's a vulnerability. I need you to seal this wound so I can get around without leaving another blood trail.”
“Momma, we can always ride Kirara,” a dark-haired boy said quickly.
“I know, honey. But I'm not going to burden her with my own weight, when she can protect you three better if I'm not weighing her down.”
There was a small meow and suddenly, a small, two-tailed, cream-colored cat appeared in the well house.
“A youkai cat and a kitsune are at a shrine… This is rather interesting,” the apparition observed.
“Look, can you just freeze my arm? If I lose any more blood, I'm going to have a really hard time getting back.”
With a sigh, he gently grabbed Kagome's bleeding shoulder. A brilliant blue energy engulfed her body and her eyes suddenly widened as the blood in her arm froze. Everything else followed, and slowly, Kagome's arm turned completely blue.
“It will hold for roughly ten minutes.”
“T… Thanks,” she said, trying to stop her chattering teeth. “Kirara… follow me…”
The cat walked outside and suddenly, in a huge cloud of flames, nearly quadrupled in size.
“Kids, get on Kirara, okay? We're going to a safe place.”
The three slowly climbed onto the cat, Kirara, and she took to the sky with a roar.
“Let's… get going, before I freeze myself to death,” Kagome said before she left the hut. Together, she and Hiei took off, both surprised with the other's speed. Within ten minutes, they reached Genkai's temple, and the questions that were awaiting Kagome…
 
A/N:
Well, here's the beginning to my new fanfiction. Anyone that read my others will know I can write very well. But if you've read Cataclysm, you'll see the result of a story when it's put on hold. I'm going to make sure that, while writing this fanfiction, I'll focus on this one's plot so that I don't lose any of my original intent.
Hopefully, I'll love writing this as much as I did Darkness. So, be sure to review and tell me your thoughts and opinions.
Translation notes:
POV- Point-of-View
Onna- woman
Yuki-onna- Literally `Snow Woman'; an ice spirit in Japanese mythology
Koorime- ice apparition
Youkai- Japanese word for Demon
Reikai- Spirit World
King Enma- Reikai's king
Koenma- Reikai's prince
Makai- Demon World
Youki- demonic energy
Reiki (not quite sure if it's correctly spelled)- human psychic energy
Miko- A shrine maiden of Shinto, or a priestess who serves deities at Shinto shrines
 
Pairings: (and yes, there are a lot of them, but I think I can handle them)
Yusuke X Keiko
Kagome X Kagura (don't know what kind of pairing this will be, but it will be there, eventually)
Kurama X Botan (possibly)
Kuwabara X Yukina
Kohaku X Rin
Shippo X Yukina (most likely a friendship pairing)