Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Shattered Freedom ❯ Chapter Four ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter Four

 

Chapter Four

 

As Kurama exited the Reikai castle he noticed an envelope on the floor. He picked it up and despite the fact that it was addressed to Koenma's father the King of Reikei by a person who didn't even know the right name, read the letter inside.

 

To: Prince Koenma's bastard of a father

Give up the twins or say goodbye to Earth

From: Lord Freiza

 

Kurama threw it to the ground. He had never heard of this Freiza person. And he only knew one of the twins that the note seemed to refer to. He threw the letter back on to the ground, not caring in the least where it landed.

 

He returned to the Ningenkai. Once there he went to Genkai's temple to tell her the bad news. As he walked to the temple, he tried to find a way to break the news to Genkai. He never made it to the temple. Never even saw the normal human who had struck him over the head with a baseball or sensed the shard of the Shikon no Tama that had been used to control that human.

 

~*~

 

Ariel watched as Yusuke slowly woke up. She smirked when he suddenly turned his head turned toward her and his chocolate-brown eyes snapped open. She frowned a split-second later when he quickly got to his feet and began backing away from her. Using a bit of speed she got behind him. It took him a moment to find where she had gone. He quickly turned around and started to back away again but was stopped. He tried to speak, but words failed him. He was all but frozen with fear. She was fast and powerful. So very powerful that it boggled his mind that one short body could hold so much power. She reached out and gently touched his cheek. His eyes widened in shock as the hand worked its way behind his head and Ariel's other hand did the same thing on the other side of his face. Then she suddenly dropped both arms and said, "Follow me."

 

He didn't know why he followed. He wanted so desperately to run away. To be anywhere but where she was leading him. His feet would not obey his commands and he kept following the short, powerful girl. She led him to a small hot-spring where she forced him into the water. She undressed and got in behind him. His still trembling body tensed as she ran her hands over his body to get the blood, dirt, and the nearly non-existent tatters of clothing off him.

 

Bit by bit, Yusuke's fear angered Ariel. She could smell it. It rolled off him in waves that seemed to intensify by the second. At lower levels it had excited her but right now it just angered her.

 

"Even after I healed every wound on your body, down to the smallest scratch, do you really think I'd hurt you now. My father taught me to treat my property better then that." 'At least not without giving them some kind of pleasure even if they don't like the brand of pleasure they are being given.' But she wisely kept that thought to herself.

Yusuke's response was to look away. He didn't want her to see the answer in his eyes. Of course she would hurt him, that's what the powerful always did to the weak. Wasn't it? She moved her hands to where they rested in the small of his back and pulled him closer. The tip of her tail began working its way up and down the backs of his legs. The fear inside Yusuke changed to panic. He wanted to get away from this girl who held him captive against his will. He brought up a hand and tried to push her away. When she frowned in anger at that action he almost panicked, but the expression on her face only lasted a moment before it turned into a small smirk.

 

Then he felt something at the edge of his mind and a second later his mind was being flooded with images. The pictures came with information. Within seconds he knew exactly what he was to her, what she wanted from him, and many of the methods she could use to enforce her will. That wasn't the only thing that happened in those short moments. He also learned the purpose of the tattoo that she had placed on his left arm while she had waited for him to wake. It was the symbol of a contract that Ariel had made with her soul. The contract being that she would own him forever, that she would give her life if necessary to keep anyone else from hurting him or taking him away from her. There was a distinct emphasis on the 'any one else' part that Yusuke didn't like. He had the distinct feeling that there would be much that he would not like and even much that he out right hated as long as this girl held him captive.

 

The shock of that realization hit hard. Yusuke sagged into Ariel's embrace. Too shocked to even tremble in fear. He tried to regain his footing but his legs were weak. He hated being weak.

 

A moment later when Yusuke was back on his feet, Ariel grabbed his hand and led him from the hot spring and to the place where she had set down her backpack and handed him the clothes it contained. While he dressed she retrieved her clothes and put them on.

When she turned back to Yusuke, he was sitting on the ground with his back against a tree and wearing black jeans and a blood-red muscle shirt. The trembling had stopped. He stood as she approached, but did not look at her. She stopped walking when she stood in front of him. It took everything in him to keep from trembling. He didn't notice when she came to a stop in front of him until she grabbed his arms. He had been staring at his feet and the unexpected contact surprised him. He jumped and Ariel released her hold on his arms.

For a long moment Yusuke just stood there, staring at his feet and breathing hard. Using a bit of ki, Ariel began to hover a few inches off the ground. She kissed Yusuke ever so lightly on the lips that for a moment he thought that he had imagined it. Then while he was still thinking about the kiss, Ariel picked him up and took off into the sky.

 

Yusuke yelped and clutched Ariel's neck in fear. Ariel looped her tail around his ankle and began to purr. A moment later he calmed down enough to stop. He didn't trust her, but at the altitude they were flying at there was nothing that he could do about it. He knew that she had only made the attempt to calm him because she found the clutching at her neck thing to be extremely annoying. How he knew that he didn't know but he knew it none the less.

 

As they flew the short distance to the Reikai Castle, Ariel kept stealing glances at Yusuke. He looked so cute when he wasn't glaring at her in anger. A moment later and after some thought she reconsidered. He looked his cutest when he was angry and she wondered if he would look even cuter if he were in pain. She thought back to when she had first seen him and came to the decision that pain was the much better look as far as she was concerned.

 

Yusuke just stayed quiet during the flight. Not wanting to anger Ariel any more then he had. He didn't want to deal with it or anything that had happened to him recently. He wondered if Hiei would accuse him of being a coward if the Koorime hybrid ever found out. He wondered if either Hiei or even Kurama would make an appearance and end up being slaughtered by Ariel. He began to wonder if his only way out was death and how much more he could take before being driven to take his own life just to stop the pain and humiliation he had already suffered and knew he was going to suffer in the future.

 

After almost two hours of flying at about half speed, Ariel landed on the balcony that led to the apartment that she shared with her identical twin sister Ariana. She could sense that Ariana and her pet Hiei were in the shower. She put Yusuke down and led him to the bathroom. She really didn't care that her sister was taking a shower with someone who had to be her new pet, Hiei. They were twins after all.