InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Genkai's Daughter ❯ Chapter 19: Kuronue ( Chapter 19 )

A/n: Hello, sorry about the long delay, I’m not going to spew out excuses to you because I know you don’t want to hear them. So I’m just going to go right into this next chapter. Enjoy!

*Genkai’s Daughter*

By: Kage Otome (Shadow Maiden)

Chapter 19: Kuronue

Kuronue hadn’t been the same in days. He would just sit there, next to the window and stare out with this glazed look over his face. It was as if his mind shattered with his heart. He wouldn’t eat, wouldn’t sleep, wouldn’t do anything except stare out the window as if waiting for Kagome to return. As if all he’d experienced at Naraku’s was nothing but a dream, a dream that he wasn’t waking from. It had gotten to the point that Genkai and the other’s had to force feed him.

He was but a shell of his former self.

Nothing seem to get through to him.

Often they found him curled up in her bed or holding one of her shirts to his nose. It seemed to be the only thing that kept him sane. Other times he would snap at everyone or just not seem to register their presence. He was a lost man, a broken one. And nothing anyone did seemed to snap him out of this haze he was in.

They were worried.

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Kuron ue stared out the window again. His violet eyes, dull and lifeless. He couldn’t think of anything, see anything except her face. Her beautiful face, blank of any emotion, any feeling when they looked at him. He saw her wrapped up in his embrace and felt nothing. He couldn’t feel anything except the pain, the hurt, the sadness, the void.

No thoughts went through his mind, nothing but her. All of her, remembering the good times, the fun they had, the missions they had, the laughter they shared. They belonged together. It was simple as that, but she didn’t remember. She didn’t remember anything. That’s what hurt the most---the look in her eyes when she saw him. There was nothing. Nothing---because she didn’t know him, they took her memories of him.

“Kagome...”

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Blue eyes stared curiously at the koumori currently sitting next to the window of a room, probably the room those people kept her captive in, considering how much her scent permeated the room. Why would he be there? What was wrong with him? He’d just been sitting and staring, off in his own world. It was baffling. But she was a determined soul--no matter how much she detested these people according to her memory, she couldn’t help but feel a twinge of---something. Pity perhaps.

She wasn’t sure.

Landing on the edge of the window sill she stared at the demon, wondering what was going through his head to make him so---dead. Now he wasn’t dead in the physical sense so to speak, more as in the mental and ‘emotional’ sense. He still breathed, but he didn’t acknowledge anything going around him. It was most peculiar.

“Kagome...”

Cocking her head to the side she answered him.

“Yes?”

The bat’s head whipped around from staring blankly out into the trees to stare at her, perched on the window sill. Focusing on her form, he drunk in the sight of her greedily. She was really there---it wasn’t a dream, she wasn’t a dream. Was she? Reaching out almost cautiously his fingertips met her cheek. Kagome for her part simply allowed him to do so, her own curiosity getting the best of her.

“You’re here...”

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Darting through the tree’s with a swiftness that made her nothing but a gust of wind to the naked eye, Kagome sighed softly. She had gained no knowledge as to the bat’s behavior, he’d just sat their and stared at her, until finally growing annoyed she took her leave. It didn’t make sense. It only left her with more questions. Questions that she didn’t have answers for. Maybe Naraku knew something?

There was something seriously off about that bat.

But what?

Landing back in the Makai at the little hide-a-way she immediately made her way to Naraku. Approaching him in his chambers was something she was loathe to do, but she needed some answers. After all, it didn’t make any sense. Why the bat was acting that way. Why it seemed as if he knew her...None of it made any sense.

It was almost as if the bat, Kuronue, cared for her.

It was a ridiculous thought, completely and utterly ridiculous.

So why did her heart beat a little faster when he touched her?

Was her heart trying to tell her something that her mind didn’t want to hear?

If so---What?

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Tog uro’s eyes narrowed in contemplation at this new--development. It seemed that although her memories had been locked away and new one’s replaced them, they couldn’t do much about what her ‘heart’ felt. Ludicrous in his opinion, but that seemed to be the situation. It seemed the feelings the bat and Kagome had for each other were deeper than just a physical attraction. So how to deal with this...

Simple.

Eliminate the threat to all his hard work.

Tonight, there would be one less bat in the world.

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“ You know what to do.”

“Yes Master Toguro.”

“Go.”

The shadow figure fled from the room his order going through his head. He wondered why his master wished this particular demon dead. Not that he had any objections. He lived for the hunt and did whatever his master who in reality was Naraku ordered him too. However his master was under orders from this master, so technically Toguro was his master. Right? Getting off track the order rang through his head louder this time.

“Kill the koumori.”

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Blue eyes narrowed as her body was swept with chills. Something was going to happen tonight. Something big, something that she had to stop. Leaping down from her position on Lord Naraku’s roof, she made her way through the wilds of Makai, through the barrier with ease, due to her hanyou blood the barrier sometimes had trouble telling her from ‘human’ or ‘demon’.

‘Follow your instincts.’

Where had she heard that before? She couldn’t remember. But still she pushed forward, eyes narrowing as she pinpointed the area as near her ‘enemies’ and that screwed up bat. Maybe her instincts were fried? She slid to a halt just before the tree line came to an end as she saw Goshinki. One of master Naraku’s ‘children’. The question was, what was he doing here? Maybe he felt something too... However her heart said otherwise.

She watched as he leapt up to the branch that she had been perched in earlier while ‘spying’ on the koumori. Narrowing her eyes she followed, being sure to keep a safe distance away, after masking her aura and scent. It wouldn’t do good to have him know she was there. Eyes widened in surprise as she watched him leap into the room, claws brandished. He was here---to kill the bat demon?

Instinct once again kicked in, along with something else she couldn’t identify and she followed him into the room, just in time to see Goshinki strike the immobile man into the wall and the other inhabitants of the house burst through the doors. He hadn’t even tried to defend himself. Her mind was completely blank as she leapt in front of the immobile bat demon, snarling at Goshinki. The only thought making it’s way through her head was ‘Protect’.

Goshinki for his part paused in his attack and glared down at the hanyou standing in his way.

“Move.”

“No.” Her voice was cold and perhaps a little confused.

Kuronue glanced up from his position on the floor, hope in his eyes.

She was protecting him.

Maybe...

“Why do you protect him?” Goshinki growled.

Pausing herself she looked baffled.

“...I--I don’t know.”

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A/n: Yes, it was rather short, but the next chapter will probably be a bit longer and come out soon. Hopefully. Sorry it took so long to get this out.