InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Fuyu Yume ❯ Chapter 4: To Give ( Chapter 4 )

A/n: Hey everyone! It’s been a while ne? Sorry about the long wait. Anyway, here’s the next chapter.

Disclaimer: I still don’t own a thing.

Summary:

They need her help to save him but first they must brave the treacherous mountains and the secrets they hold to get to her.

Pairing:

Kagome/?
Kuwabara/Yukina

Warnings: There will be a few OC’s mentioned, like Kagome’s ‘companions’ and a few others. However there will be no pairings between OC’s and regular characters, since I don’t like doing that. There may be past relationships with OC’s for Kagome but that’s it.

*Fuyu Yume*

By: Kage Otome (Shadow Maiden)

Chapter 4: To Give

Things were bad.

Really bad.

Both Rinku and Kuwabara seemed to just get worse. There was no way for them to slow the poison in Rinku or help Kuwabara. They’d tried everything they could think of, even sucking the poison out and still nothing worked. If things continued as they were...They didn’t even want to think of what would happen. But everyone knew, the thought dwelled in everyone’s minds, haunting them. It was consuming them.

“I need to keep trying.” Yukina said softly, determination bright in her eyes.

Placing her hands over Rinku’s wound, she pushed her power into the wound, hoping for the poison to disperse, even if it’s just a little. A little meant that not only were her powers working, his immune system was fighting off the poison and succeeding, if only slightly. There was still hope. But it seemed both Yukina and his immune system were fighting a losing battle.

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Chuu was worried.

He may have seemed to be laid back and casual, drunk and ‘out of it’ most of the time. But right now he was completely lucid. He should’ve protected Rinku better. They were team, family and extremely loyal to the other. They were all each other had, and he’d failed him. He felt sadness, anger at himself, fear, but most of all he felt guilt. Sure he was a bit head strong and fun loving, but now all of that easy ‘charm’ flew out the window. All he felt was guilt

Guilt that he should’ve better protected Rinku.

But he failed.

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Yusuke laid a comforting hand on her shoulder.

“There’s nothing more you can do Yukina, get some rest.”

“I’ll keep first watch. I want to keep trying.” Yukina said softly laying her hand against Kuwabara’s cool cheek, worry clouding her features, turning her soft, gentle face into something fatigued. There was only so much she could do, so much she could give before she too began to fade away. Worry can do that.

Yusuke nodded knowing their was no point in arguing. They’d all have to be at their best if tomorrow as anything like today had been. They only had a few more hours of night left. It would do well to take advantage of it, since it seemed the icy winds and snow slowed.

Yukina went back to work.

She had to keep trying.

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Kagome watched the koorime with slightly confused eyes. The Koorime was really giving it her all to save the two of them. She wouldn’t succeed, the poison and wounds, they were unique. The only one who could save them, was her. As cold as she was, she was loathe to allow a child, who’d not yet begun to live, die. But then again he was a demon, he’d probably lived, longer then most ningen already.

But still...

Kagome leaped down a few meters from where they had made camp, in a small cave. Making sure to keep everything masked she walked forward. She would keep them alive, until their group ceased to intrigue her. And then, she’d allow them to die. But for now, they were proving too interesting to have them give up, to have them die. And the only way to keep them going was to heal these male’s, but only slightly.

She’d give them two days.

“Move.” Her voice was soft, a whisper on the wind, but Yukina’s head shot up and was only met with the darkness behind the hooded cloak. The figure, female if she’d have to guess was wearing a pure white cloak made out of some type of animal fur.

“I can heal them.”

“Your---”

“Yes.”

“But, why?”

The cloaked female sighed in annoyance.

“As long as you continue to intrigue me, I will allow them life, if you reach my home and pass my tests, I will heal them completely. “ Her voice was ethereal, as was the glow emanating from her pale, slender arm.

Kagome reached over and placed her hand over Rinku’s arm and healed it halfway, dispersing it of 3/4 of the poison. Moving over to Kuwabara, she made sure her face and the rest of her body remained covered, she did not want to reveal herself just yet. Laying a hand against his chest, she got a better understanding of the type of wound he held---and it stirred something within her. The only person she knew of that could inflict such a wound was banned from her mountains. Why would he do this? To a human...Too many questions and to few answers. She poured her healing touch into the boy.

They’d live.

For now.

“Two days.”

With that she disappeared in whirlwind of snowflakes.

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Yu kina sat there staring at the spot where she had just been before turning to the boys. They had regained a bit of color but were still too close to death for comfort. So she was testing them, deciding if they were worthy. As long as they ‘intrigued’ her they’d live. Well then, they’d just have to keep her attention in that case, if only she knew what it was about them that intrigued her. Their breathing had evened out---she took away their pain, if only for a little while. And for that she couldn’t help but be thankful, after all--She could’ve just let them die, it wasn’t like they could turn back anyway.

But she didn’t.

Perhaps the Fuyu no Hime (Princess of Winter) wasn’t as cold as she was said to be.

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They listened avidly to what Yukina had to tell them about her. The supposed daughter of ‘Jack Frost’. After all, they only had to go by what she had said to Yukina. They had no proof it was actually the woman they were seeking in the first place. If it was...They had so many questions to ask. And no answers. Now they could only thank this mysterious person silently for giving them a little more time. They decided to trust Yukina’s instinct , intuition on this person.

They had two days.

They’d have to make them count.

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Trudgin g through the icy mountains upon the treacherous paths was a dangerous choice indeed. But unless they suddenly gained the ability to ‘teleport’ they couldn’t do anything. Even Jin with the ability to fly hadn’t been able to get to far, it was part of her test. The thick fall of snow and the harsh winds were impenetrable. It was almost as if---she was watching them. The snow fell harder the winds blew fiercer the moment Jin tried to take to the skies. So that was how things were going to be--they were just going to have to tough it out and fight through this.

Now they would get a taste as to why her mountains are called treacherous.

That is if they made it that far.

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The white wolf trailed behind them making sure to cover his tracks, his scent his very existence from her. With her so nearby watching them, it would be a bit harder to continue to follow them undetected. But he had no doubt in his mind he’d be able to do so. After all he was once worshiped as a God---and she wouldn’t be expecting him. But then again, this was Kagome...She probably already suspected something (by the focus of her eyes trailing across the snow), however she wouldn't know it was him until it was to late.

That gave him an advantage.

He just had to keep it.

And keep them blind to him.
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Darkness consumed him.

It was just there.

He couldn’t tell if he were awake or asleep.

All he knew was darkness.

Sometimes when he concentrated really hard he could almost hear her voice. His sweet Yukina. And sometimes even Yusuke. But most of the time it was silent, completely and utterly silent. It was disturbing, when he tried to speak he couldn’t. He didn’t even need nourishment in this place--in this abyss. But he was oh so lonely. Kazuma was not one that did well in silence or seclusion. He enjoyed interacting with others---he had codes of honor, he liked helping people.

And right now.

He was terribly frightened.

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A/n: Well, here’s the next chapter. Hope you enjoyed it.