InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Reunion ❯ Doll (New: Read Note) ( Chapter 9 )

This is a repost. I planned to post chapter 10 as well but I sprained my wrist badly. I'll get the next chapter up as soon as humanly possible. I seem to be hurting myself a lot these days. Hunting and pecking for keys sooo ruins the flow of the story. *sigh*

 

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It had been roughly twelve hours since they'd arrived at Genkai's place and both Kurama and Yukina had periodically checked on the Hiei and Kagome. It was worrying. Why hadn't they woken up already? Was there something else wrong with them? Yet, every time Kurama checked on them, they seemed to be perfectly fine, nothing more than asleep. Kurama sighed after one more check on them, `I guess we just have to wait it out.'

 

Hiei woke blinking, memory slowly coming back to him. He'd killed her, Kagome. Now he would never be able to tell her what he felt. He'd been watching her for sometime, several years in fact. He'd watch her for several days and when he'd leave even for a short time he'd find that she'd disappear. Then out of no where, he'd be able to find her again. It had intrigued him and so he had continued watching her, trying to figure out what was going on.

 

But, she was just a human and he'd had other worries on his mind, such as finding his sister Yukina. Then there was plotting to take over the human world. You know little things. Still, no matter how many worries he'd had he'd always find himself going to her little shrine and watching her, or her family. They were amusing as well. He'd once caught a whiff of a half-demon hanging around, but by the time he'd gotten there the scent was old and the demon gone. `Perhaps she'd purified him, no, that wasn't like her, maybe she'd convinced him to go else where and leave her. Maybe…'

 

`Now though…' And his thoughts had returned full circle. `I'll never get to ask her…' A single tear slid from his eye followed by another and another.

 

A soft “chink, chink,” could be heard as his hiruseki stones, that resembled black pearls, hit each other as they bounced on the bed. He went to reach up and wipe his tears away. He had to hide his hiruseki before anyone saw. His right arm didn't budge, that was when he finally realized that there was someone in the bed with him. He sat up quickly in surprise.

 

Hiei gaped; Kagome was alive and next to him. `She's alright!' He frowned and looked more closely at her. Touching her ghostly pale face, his eyes saddened. No his Kagome was not alright. She looked drawn and pallid, but one who didn't know her well wouldn't have been able to see it, Hiei could. She looked as if she was just shy of withering and blowing away.

 

Her brown eyes opened and he was startled. They were dull and lifeless, devoid of any and all emotion. She looked no more alive than a doll. She turned her head as if to look at him, but instead of looking at him, she looked through him.

 

Had he done this? Was this an effect of being swallowed by the dragon? He had no idea, but if this was caused by him, he was going to fix it if at all possible. He studied their situation and blushed lightly. Her clothing was barely able to conceal her and unfortunately, there was no one in the room to help him. He couldn't just call the others to help; he didn't want to startle her by a sudden yell.

 

He looked around, at the bottom of the bed lay a light blue kimono. Most likely Yukina's since she was the only one of the two who normally resided in the dojo that had an outfit large enough for Kagome to wear. Leaning down to retrieve the clothing he was halted by her arms around his waist.

 

“Kagome?” he asked softly. She just stared. He was unnerved, unsure of what he should do. Gently, he took her arms from his waist and slowly lowered her down onto the bed. If upset her at all he couldn't tell. She didn't speak, she didn't blink, nothing.

 

He got the kimono. “…Can you stand? ...Kagome? ...” She didn't respond. He sighed and coaxed her into a sitting position. Again she sat there, like a posable doll. He only looked at her face as he carefully removed Kuwabara's shirt and her own torn and fire charred one. Hiei blushed more forcefully and, as quickly as possible, put her in the kimono. Getting her to stand up wasn't difficult either, once he had her on her feet she stayed. He tied the obi in place and she was decent.

 

He wasn't going to deal with what little remained of her pants. `Yukina can do that.' With a nod to himself, he decided to take her out to the others. He could sense their energies; they were gathered in the main room. He took one of her hands and led her to the door that was when he remembered. “Stay here a moment.” He said, rather pointlessly for she had moved of her own volition yet.

 

He dashed back to the bed and gathered up the five hiruseki stones that he'd cried. `It wouldn't do to have Yukina find these.' And within seconds, he was back at Kagome's side holding her right hand with his and gently nudging her forward with his left.

 

Just as he was about to open the door for them, the door slid open and Yukina nearly fell back in surprise. `Good thing, I grabbed the hiruseki.' He thought to himself.

 

“I wasn't expecting you to be awake. We were starting to worry that you two wouldn't wake up.”

 

Hiei looked at her, “How long were we asleep?”

 

Yukina looked at the state that Kagome was in and touched her face answering Hiei almost absently, “About half a day.” She looked closely at Kagome. The girl didn't act like she was in any pain, so she let it go. `Maybe she was saved before anything bad could happen…'

 

Hiei stared at his sister wide eyed. “That long?” He was confused, it usually only took at most eight hours to recover from the dragon, then he remembered his thoughts as he fell into oblivion and it made sense. He'd never fallen unconscious thinking, even though the dragon had won, that he'd lost.

 

His hand around Kagome tightened, although Kagome was alive and in front of him, he still wasn't so sure that he hadn't lost. With the she was acting, she could very well be dead and the only living part of her was her body. He'd have to talk to Kurama, after all `He's her son. He might know something that could make her better.'

 

Yukina seemed to realize what she was doing and dropped her hands, still sending worried glances at Kagome. “Well let's get to the main room the others have been worried about you two.” She walked in front of Hiei and Kagome leading them into the main room. As they entered the everyone looked up, minus Jomei and Amaya who were still apparently in their room.

 

“Kagome! Are you alright?”

”What happened?”

 

“Kagome you're okay!”

 

They started shouting rapid fire questions at the poor girl. But, as Hiei lowered her to a sitting mat she didn't respond.

 

“Kagome?” Kurama moved forward worried at her unresponsiveness. “Are you alright?” He touched her shoulder, nothing.

 

“She's been like this since she woke up, won't move unless moved, won't dress unless dressed. She acts like a puppet.” Hiei scowled as if this was an inconvenience to himself, but what it actually was, was self loathing.

 

`My fault…all my fault.' It was a mantra that Hiei was now chanting in his mind.

 

“Hiei?” Kurama asked, seeing his friend's expression. Hiei looked away.

 

“Do you know what's wrong with her Fox?” There was just a hint of pleading in his voice, only Kurama caught it.

 

“I only wish I did,” He looked down at Hiei and Kagome's joined hands. “Hiei? Did you notice your dragon?” Hiei looked down sharply, since he hadn't once thought to look.

 

Hiei stared in shock, as he released Kagome's hand and twisted his arm this way in that to see the altered design. Then something else caught his eye, Kagome's arm had streaks of white across her hand laced with black. A perfect replica of Hiei's dragon only with the colors inverted.

 

“H-how is this possible?” asked Hiei, wide eyed.

 

“I don't know…Maybe Koenma might know something.”

 

`Speak of the devil.' Hiei thought morosely as Koenma chose that moment to walk into the dojo in his teenage form, so as not to startle the young woman who had already been through a traumatic ordeal. Granted, he knew that she knew of demons and that it wasn't a new thing for her. But, he couldn't help it, his ego had already been bruised so many times by the spirit detectives calling him toddler, that he wanted the first impression that this woman had of him to be a positive one.

 

“Ah Hiei! I see that you and Kagome are awake. Now we can finally settle matters. First of all, Kagome, could you tell us what happen?” So much for first impressions, he stood there asking the worst possible question and was completely not taking into account Kagome's posture or state of mind. She sat there staring vacantly ahead of her, not taking any notice of Koenma.

 

Koenma stood there waiting, “Kagome, I know it's been traumatic but we have to know.” Koenma said getting huffy.

 

Hiei had been in the room for only minutes but already he wanted to leave. This was too much. There were too many people, even if they were friends. He wanted to be off by himself and he would have been, had he not already decided that it was up to him to take care of Kagome. Suddenly, Hiei growled and jumped to his feet standing in between the prissy junior king of the spirit world and Kagome. “Will you just SHUT UP?!” The whole room just stared at him in shock. No one had been expecting Hiei's temper to explode like that.

 

“B-but we have to know what happened.” Koenma stuttered, seeing the malevolence in Hiei's eyes.

 

“That may be so, but can't you see she's in no state to talk.” Yukina came to Hiei's side running her hand over Kagome once again checking her out with her youki.

 

Yukina turned to Koenma, “Hiei's right. Kagome's throat is torn, I don't know if she will be able to eat, let alone speak. Also, I've noticed that her ki is almost non existent. I don't even know how she's awake. Her body is in an extreme amount of physical pain.” She turned back to Hiei frowning, Hiei understood the silent question and nodded.

 

He turned to Kagome and scooped her up, taking her back to their room. Koenma sighed, “Well at least I can tell you what I've found out about Manzo, and then you can inform Hiei and Kagome later.” The others looked at Koenma eagerly.

 

“Well our records show that the demon Manzo was born of Naraku a half demon and a full blooded demoness named Hisa. Now Hisa was born to a powerful serpent clan known as the Naga. In fact she was the daughter of the clan leader and therefore very powerful herself. She was captured by Naraku and forced to become a half-mate.”

 

At this Yukina gasped in horror, “That's awful,” she cried.

 

Kurama and Genkai's face turned deadly serious and Koenma nodded solemnly. The others however were unfamiliar with the intricacies of demon custom, and were completely clueless as to what the others were discussing.

 

Seeing his friends' confused state, Kurama sighed and turned to them. “What it basically means is that he raped her and instead of just leaving her afterwards.” Kurama looked toward the floor angrily, “instead of just leaving her alone after that. He did something much worse. He stole her blood and created a blood bound contract, which in turn forced her to do whatever he desired. Typically though, it is as a sex slave and her life is bound her `masters',” Kurama sneered, remembering Naraku.

 

Koenma coughed to catch everyone's attention once more. “Yes, well. He did this to the demoness Hisa, and forced her to bear his child. The contract that he'd bound her with prevented her from taking her own life or the life of her child. Thus, Manzo was born and raised by a Hisa, who despised everything he represented, and Naraku. Now though she is free of Naraku and doesn't seem to ever remember being under his power.” Koenma trailed off.

 

“Wait a minute,” Yuusuke yelled scratching his head. “I thought that Kurama said she'd die when Naraku died. Kagome killed him didn't she?”

 

“Indeed, Yuusuke.” Koenma was pleasantly surprised that his dimwitted spirit detective managed to pick that up. “It all has to do with the wish that Kagome made on the Jewel nearly five hundred years ago.” They stared at him blankly. “What?”

 

“You know what she wished for?” Kurama asked.

 

“Oh course! It's my job to know these things.” Koenma puffed himself up to look more important, since he was obviously relaying news that no one else knew. “She wished that all those who had been hurt by Naraku to be happy.”

 

Kuwabara's eyes widened, he understood. “So since Hisa was hurt by Naraku! She forgot everything about what happened free of the contract and lived out her life happily.”

 

“Exactly…” Koenma stated trying to take back the conversation.

 

But Kuwabara interrupted, “But, that doesn't explain why Manzo wasn't happy.”

 

“Well I'm guessing since Naraku raised Manzo that he didn't hurt him…” Kurama answered.

 

Yuusuke interrupted, “But, I thought you said that Naraku was a sadistic bastard?”

 

Kurama turned to Yuusuke, “True and with what I know about him from chasing him all across Japan as a kit, he is as you say a `sadistic bastard', but he is also very manipulative and could play the good guy for as long as it suited him to. My guess is that he was planning to use Manzo in a long range plan in a sort of power maneuver.”

 

Koenma who had been getting irritated that everyone was ignoring him finally stepped back into the conversation. “Yes, that is what we believe as well…”

 

“Wait! But why wasn't Manzo included in the wish.” Kuwabara shouted.

 

Koenma glared at Kuwabara, “because Kuwabara,” he said through gritted teeth. “Naraku hadn't had a chance to hurt Manzo yet. Therefore on a technicality he wasn't hurt by Naraku and not covered under the wish.”

 

“Humph…That sucks.” Kuwabara stated crossing his arms.

 

Kurama growled low in his throat. “That still doesn't excuse what he did to Kagome.”

 

Yuusuke leaned over and spoke softly to Kurama, “No it doesn't, and if the bastard was still alive I'd kick his ass.”

 

“Hey, Kurama, I know what Yukina said about Kagome being spiritually drained and all but she wasn't there when she came in.” Kuwabara stated his feelings, confused as he tried to put words to them.

 

Yuusuke frowned, “What do you mean Kuwabara?”

 

“She was like a void, like…” he waved his arms helplessly. “Her body came in here without her, she had no presence. Not like even drained people do, it was kinda… creepy.” Kuwabara shuddered.

 

Turning to look at Kurama, Yuusuke asked seriously, “You don't think Hiei's dragon did something to her, do you?”

 

Kurama restless got up and moved to the window staring out, “It's possible,” he said slowly not really believing it to be true. “But, I don't believe so. Now I don't pretend to know all the mechanics of the black dragon, but, the flames of hell would normally incinerate the body of its victim, not turn it into a `puppet'.” He punched the wall in anger, “It's probably something Manzo did to her before we got there.”

 

Kurama had tried hard not to let his anger and agitation show. Yet, when he was around Kagome it was like being a kit again. Seeing her face, knowing she loved him, and now knowing that she'd been hurt. So hurt that she couldn't function properly. He'd failed. He'd failed her in the worst possible way. The wish she'd made on the jewel, what he'd gotten, it was all in vain. He hadn't been strong enough to protect the ones he loved. He hadn't been enough.

 

He punched the wall again and again, luckily for Genkai, the walls were strong enough to take such an assault. “Damn it, damn it, damn it! I just found her, I can't lose her again. Not like this,” his voice trailed off, silent tears running down her face.

 

The others remained silent not knowing quite what to say to their distraught friend. It wasn't much longer before Koenma left, followed by Kuwabara who felt that he wouldn't be doing much good by staying. He'd tell Keiko and Shizuru what was happening and they'd return in the morning.

 

Kurama was emotionally exhausted as he wandered down the hallway. Yuusuke hung back to talk to Genkai. `Kurama's strong he can take care of himself.' At least that is what Yuusuke hoped. As he passed Jomei and Amaya's room, Amaya looked out. She'd awoken from the noise of something pounding on the wall a little while ago. “Are you alright?” she asked quietly.

 

Kurama just turned his head to look at Amaya dully. “I'm fine.” He said as he wandered down the hallway to the backdoor of the building. Amaya silently trailed after him.

 

Walking outside Kurama went to the edge of the forest, the day was sunny and bright, a huge contrast to the mood that hung around the people inside the dojo. He sat down hard near a particularly large tree. Leaning back he closed his eyes, enjoying the calming company of the plants around him.

 

Kurama didn't even move when he felt Amaya sit next to him. He didn't feel like talking and she seemed to sense that. Amaya began gently running her fingers through Kurama's long red hair, if he was surprised he didn't show it, just leaned closer into the caress. `Feels good,' he thought drowsily. Not long after Kurama fell into a dreamless sleep, comforted by the mothering presence of the other demoness.

 

 

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*Looks up* That was an exceedingly difficult chapter to write since I was trying to give explanations without contradicting what was already written.

 

Hey everyone wanna know a secret? This is my first actual, I'm the only one working on it, fan fiction. Heehee

 

Okay cause Purefire16 isn't guessing, I'll do something for the first person who can guess what Kagome is before I actually tell. All chapters have clues particularly my last chapter and the first chapter.

 

Janomaru: I wasn't complaining, I was joking/teasing. I don't typically sugar coat my reviews either. In fact I prefer reviews that say more than. “I love it!” Not that I'll turn those down.

 

ChaosChiq: *grin*

 

Methos: Yay, you're back! I thought, I stated why he was happy. *check* Yup, it's there and if you look up at what's with Kagome. That was his goal.

 

 

Thief Lava: There you go…Chapters will now take longer to write due to the amount of information I need to cross-check.

 

Firedemon86: Who said I was stopping?

 

And thanks everyone else who reviewed. Like I said to Firedemon86 I'm not stopping. Just taking a break (hopefully not literally this summer *whimper*). Thought of putting up an AN instead but I hate those.

 

Also…I now have a summer job. Going to be interesting with the injury *more whimpering*