Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Aka Nichibotsu ❯ Chapter 4: In 200 Years, I've Realized ( Chapter 4 )

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Title: Aka Nichibotsu

Chapter 4: In 200 Years, I've Realized

The sky was painted with light pinks and orange hues as the sun descended into the horizon. The eastern sky was already falling into dusk as the first stars came out. In the gardens of the castle of Sesshoumaru-sama, there was a small hammock where a young woman lay. She was wearing a dark blue kimono with a gold dragon on the back, that showed her status as a general and that of a sorceress. A black hilted sword lay in it's black sheath lay to the side of one of the trees that held up the hammock she lie in. Her black-blueish hair was tied back into twin buns on the back of her head, with her bangs blowing in the slight breeze, just barely obscuring her view as she read the book in her hand.

"She right over there Hiei-chan," Kikyou-obasan's voice, next to me, told me as I felt her give me a slight push in her direction.

I slowly began to walk towards the woman in the hammock. I could feel her power start to break free from the barrier holding back her power. Sango-obasan told me her ki does that when she is thinking deeply about something. I wonder if it has to do with Inu-ojisan, Miroku-ojisan and Shippou-san coming around more often. The air always seems to change when they come around and no one seems to act the same. Kikyou-obasan and Sango-obasan always seem distracted when they come around. Even Sesshoumaru-sama seems distracted and worried. Only oneesan doesn't act that way. I wonder if they're keeping her out of this. 'Who is this 'oneesan'?'

"Do you want some Hiei-chan?" Oneesan asked me softly as she continued to read her book. '... No one calls me little... at least no one in the ningenkai..'

"Kikyou-obasan put me out here cause Inu-ojisan, Miroku-ojisan and Shippou-san are having' a m-mee-meet..-" I tried to say.

"Meeting," Oneesan corrected me.

"Yea.. And Sango-obasan and Kikyou-obasan put me out here cause they also had to go to the me-meet... it," I told her and she got a thoughtful look in her eyes. 'Who is this onna no hito!? Why can't I see her face to see who she is!?'

"Hn. I see," was all oneesan uttered, "... Watch the sunset with me?" she asked me after as I climbed up in the hammock with her.

"Wow. Pretty," I said. This was the first time I had really looked at the sunset.

"Hai... It is Hiei-chan," oneesan whispered to me, "in times of peace you will never see a red sunset, and in the times to come, pollution will block it from view," how does she know these things? And what is pollution?

"Why are you telling me these things oneesan?" I asked her to keep her from becoming thoughtful.

"In times of war or great bloodshed the sunset will be red, bleeding as if it, too, had been hit, or burning as if it was the one burning," she said with such emotion that it scared me a little. 'Who the hell is this onna!? And where the hell am I!?'

"Oneesan...?" I asked her timidly.

"I never want you to see those times. I never want you to see a red sunset, for that will be the beginnings of bad times. And no one should know such times," I wonder if she even heard me?

"Aka nichibotsu ka. Doushite ka," Will she hear my voice this time?

"Hai, aka nichibotsu... Kedo, warui ma desu," oneesan answered me softly, "No one should live in that nightmarish reality that is so full of death and despair that you can't remember the days filled with a gentle light," I just lied there in her arms, as it slowly became dusk. 'I was foolish back then. Why didn't I heed her veiled warnings? But, why did I forget all about my neechan? How come I can't remember her face anymore?'

"But Hiei-chan," she said after a few moments, which caught my attention, "You must always remember those days filled of gentle light, no matter how dark the nightmare may be. Because the nightmare will always pass and those gentle days will return," I could tell she was lost in a memory. 'Gomen, neechan... I forgot all you told me and gave into the darkness.' "...They're like storms Hiei-chan. They come when you least expect and make you think everything will never return to normal. But, they leave and let you pick up the remains of your life, while you live in thanks that you survived. Then, it starts all over again, but you must weather it."

"And you'll always be by my side to help me?" I asked her, but she said nothing, "... Won't you oneesan?" I asked her again, but all she did was continue to stare at the stars as they appeared. 'You never made promises you couldn't keep... That's why you never answered me back then, isn't it... Neechan?'

She turned her head and looked at me with vivid blue grey eyes. 'Eyes that answered my question. How come I never saw it before?'

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I sat up quickly and nearly fell out of the tree I had slept in. Never before had I had that dream. At least not after that band of thieves found took me in just two months after I made it to the safe town. The only reason I met that band of thieves was because some youkai army attacked just days before I met them. I lost everything neechan gave me, except for the katana and the necklace you and baaba gave me moments before I left. What happened neechan? You never came for me, you never looked for me? Hn. Everything you told me was just a lie then, wasn't it? I should've never believed you when you said you loved me. You just wanted to get away from me, wasn't that it? And that's why you never watched me leave, you didn't want me to see how happy you were that I was leaving... Right?

Hn. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be second guessing the motives of ningens. And... I hate that. Why can't you just leave my memory and let me live my life!?!

"Hiei. Koenma is calling all of us in. He says that he has a mission that might help us fight better for the Dark Tournament," the fox told me before he left. Damn toddler. I can't believe he's calling a mission with only a month left before the Dark Tournament. Might as well go and see what this is all about.

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"I need all of you to go here," The toddler told us after everyone calmed down and held up a picture of some ruined castle. It looks familiar to me for some reason, "This is Sesshoumaru-sama's old castle. A half-day away is the old safe town that was destroyed by the youkai army as they marched to the castle two hundred years ago. It's been rebuilt and it's as close to the castle as we can get you."

"That's nice and all, but what does this have to do with anything?" Yusuke asked the toddler.

"If you let me finish telling the story, you would know why Yusuke," the toddler told Yusuke, annoyed, "Anyways. Sesshoumaru-sama was rumored to be guarding a sacred jewel along with his three best generals. Each general was an expert in some field of combat, and ones weakness was another's strength. All four men were known as the Shi Kurara, dangerous and deadly."

"How do you know all of them were men?" I asked the stupid baby.

"They have to be men! No woman could be as skilled as they were!" That baby signed his death wish. Although she may have sent me away, I still honor her as a great sorcerer and Sango as an excellent swordswoman. And no one insults them in my presence.

"Whoa. The shrimps gettin' angry!" I will kill that oaf one day. He does not deserve Yukina.

"If you don't shut up, baka, I will rip out your vocal chords," looks like he took my threat seriously and shut up. It's a nice change.

"Now, before anyone kills anyone else," hn. Does he actually think I'll waste my energy on killing that oaf? "The locals in the village have been reporting for 150 years that they've seen flickers of people. Like memories left behind," .. Did my neechan die in that war? "Although, we don't know how this could be since the only ones that died in that war were the opposing army. We want all of you to go and figure out what's going on."

"I thought you said this was going to make us stronger!" the tantei took the words out of my mouth.

"Oh yes.. The villagers said that they think if you can put the memories to rest, then you will be granted with some power, or something like that," hn. This might actually be interesting... However, it's been 200 years since I set foot in that castle. Could it be the memories of my childhood that still linger there?

Well.. Not where I wanted to end it, but I have lots of stuff to do, so I have to end it here. Maybe tomorrow I'll put up another chapter that has the rest of what I wanted to put in here. But, that depends on how much work I get done. So.. Please, keep on reviewing and I might update faster.