InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Zuiichi Takara ❯ Chapter 5: Savior ( Chapter 5 )

A/n: Sorry for the long wait, everyone. Work and School have really taken their toll and admittedly I’ve been sorely lacking in inspiration. But fear not, for I never discontinue a story. Shorter then I would’ve liked but, enjoy!

*Zuiichi Takara*

By: Kage Otome

Chapter 5: Savior

It had been five hours since they’d left me, here alone, in this clearing--all by myself. I know that I told them to go, practically forced them but---I hate being alone. I’ve forgotten the feeling I guess, of being alone, I suppose I’ve just become so used to Kuronue’s presence. My eyes snapped open with sudden realization.

‘I’ve come to depend on him...’

It was true, I mused. Wherever he went, I went, wherever I went, he went. We even shared the same room and bed. I’ve gotten so used to curling up against him at night. It’s not sexual. Well at least not all the time. It’s comforting and...I feel

‘I feel something for him...but what?’

Ugh. All this thinking is making my head ache, even more then it already does. I curled up into a small ball in the hollow of the base of a nearby tree and prayed no larger predators came near me. If they did...I wouldn’t be able to hold out for very long. And as I fell into blissful sweet unconsciousness I thought--

Is this what dying feels like?

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Youk o and Sesshoumaru watched the kitsune youkai curl up into the base of a hollowed tree. Sesshoumaru looked over at his friend carefully, it was obvious that Youko was quickly becoming enamored with this little vixen. Honestly Sesshoumaru couldn’t help but feel the same, but the sense of Deja vu filled him. She, this Kagome was so familiar to him.

‘Where have I seen her before?’

Both males were startled when Kagome bolted from her place near the tree, still in her fox form snarling at something they couldn’t see. What she was snarling at didn’t become clear until a particularly large mixed demon of sorts emerged from the surrounding foliage, running ahead of it was a small fox kit. Kagome snarled, leaping up at the creature, tearing into it’s unprotected stomach. After wounding it, she picked the kit up by the scruff of his neck, with her jaws carefully before darting into the thick forestry. She panted with the strain. But she couldn’t let a little kit die.

It wasn’t right.

The demon roared, bloody eyes searching for his attacker and meal. Finding none he made a horrific sound, causing all demons present to cover their ears, Kagome snaked her tail around the kit’s ears and clamped her paws over her own furry appendages. Of all the things it could decide to do it was that. Curses.

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I opened my eyes cautiously, I realized I was safe! Mother and Father would be so proud. I deflated slightly. Mother. Father. Their dead now. Burying my snout into the females neck I whimpered, curling up against her.

My Savior.
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Opening my eyes, one thing became abruptly clear, the poison was working. Very fast. I couldn’t see. I couldn’t see! I panicked slightly, my instincts getting the better of me. In my animal form, I was more susceptible to listening to my instincts rather then the rational part of my mind. Unfortunately. The small kit began to whimper and absently I noticed he had buried his face into my neck. I was scaring him. Panicking would not be helping anything. It would undoubtedly make things worse then they already were.

‘Calm down, Kagome...Calm down.’ Eventually her breathing returned to normal, she still had other senses to rely on, but for how long? How long, till the poison took them too? Nosing the small kit nestled between her paws, she growled softly to him, telling him it was safe and to return to his pack.

“No pack. Pack gone.”

Kagome frowned, well as much as she could in her true form.

‘How?’

“Mom, Dad. Dead.”

‘Demon?’

The small kit nodded.

‘Rest of Pack? Leader?’

“None.”

“I Stay You?”

She nodded.

“Safe”

Her eyes softened marginally.

Kagome wasn’t quite sure what to say, kitsune’s were fiercely protective of their own and kitsune’s rarely broke off from their packs. When they did, they had a very good reason. But then again, every once in a while you get a bad fox who doesn’t follow hierarchy rules, who is then exiled from the pack. Her mother, if she could even be called that had been exiled from the Kage Buzoku. She had at the time been pregnant with Kagome.

Of course her mother had been furious and had henceforth agreed to trade her daughter, once born for the assistance of a band of outlawed demons. What did they assist her with? Destroying the Kage Buzoku. Of course these outlawed demons had connections with other ‘outlaws’, ‘bandits’ and the like. Together they hit the Buzoku no Kage hard, fast and accurately. They hadn’t expected this retaliation, nor such a great betrayal from one of their own, granted she had been exiled. Most of the clan had either been destroyed or captured.

The Kage Buzoku also known as the Buzoku no Kage or Kage no Buzoku

The Shadow Clan; Shadow House; House of Shadows.

This clan consisted of all shadow youkai of different types specifically: koumori, the bat; kitsune, the fox; inu, the dog; neko, the cat; and the ookami, the wolf. Of course there were also youkai that specialized only in shadows, the elemental ones. But because of one woman's spite they were all brought down, the house of the Kage Buzoku was considered ‘lost’ because no one but those of the clan new where it was located. Never had any of the elders thought even exiled would one of their own turn over their location. And that was their fall. Few escaped the massacre. Even fewer escaped capture and eventual death. Two escaped. Kuronue, who’s brother pushed him to safety before falling. And Kagome, who was born out of clan.

Shaking her head Kagome nudged the kit out of the shrubbery and sniffed the air before cautiously, and unsteadily making her way back to the tree. It was always good to have someone guarding your back, for now she’d make do with the tree. Pitiful, but it would have to do. Her ears stood straight up and her nose twitched taking in every sound and smell. She sensed no danger, for now. So curling up around the kit she rested her head on the small ball of fur. And waited.

‘Kuronue...Please hurry.’

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< br> Kuronue and Kohaku flew through the air, Kohaku being carried by Kuronue. They didn’t have much time left, Kuronue could feel her getting weaker by the minute. He had to hurry. He couldn’t lose her, not now, not ever. A part of him wanted to blame Kohaku for causing her to take the blow meant for him. But Kagome wouldn’t want that.

‘Kuronue...Please hurry.’

Hearing her mental plea his violet eyes widened.

‘I’ll be back soon, Kagome. I promise.’

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A/n: Well, it’s better than nothing...