Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Blood Power ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

Blood Power

By: BoxingKing

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I do not own the story characters - they belong to their respective owners, and I am not making a profit off of this story. The plot, however, is mine, so hands off.

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Recap: Relatively simple here. Kagome is being held captive by Naraku, and he is obviously plotting some dastardly deed. Therefore, the Spirit Detectives have been sent out to retrieve the jewel, not knowing that the jewel is in fact a girl…

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OK, I goofed. I am having a lot of trouble managing this system… I don't really know why, but its power remains elusive. So, essentially, to cut this short, I deleted the two chapters I had (#1 and the recently updated #2), and in turn deleted the number of people that viewed my work, and the review left by THE ONE AWESOME PERSON WHO REVIEWED! This is my main point - I accidentally deleted the review, and for that I feel terrible. So here is my heartfelt apology - I loved it and miss it terribly. T.T Thank you, person whose name I cannot remember for reviewing in general, and for being the first. This is for you. :D

 

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She awoke slowly, at first. It took time for here eyes to focus and for her mind to clear of the fog that had seemed to take up residence. So at first she simply laid there.

 

The ground was hard, yet nicely cool against her feverish body. She felt so hot, so extremely hot. Her stomach was flipping as she did her best to remain motionless. She didn't know what was wrong with her. The flu maybe… If she could just sit up, maybe take stock of things, see what was working and what wasn't. Unfortunately, her body was refusing to cooperate. So apparently nothing was working. She grunted. At least that was out of the way.

 

`Where am I? … Not a clue… What can I see, then…' Maybe that would help her figure out where she was sitting. `Let's see. The floor is nice, stone, inlaid with moldy grout… There's one corner of the room - and hey, there's the other! Apparently wherever she was was small. The door was just on the edge of her vision. `It looks like - oh my god, are those bars? It looks like I'm in a jail cell!'

 

She began to grow frantic. What had she done to be put in a cell?? Try as she might, she couldn't remember anything, and was giving herself a headache trying.

 

She furiously tried to sit up. Her new goal in life was to see that door, and maybe see if there really were bars over it.

 

Slowly, her aching muscles began to react to her ministrations. Her chest slowly lifted off her bed on the ground, and her arms bent back. She lifted herself up.

 

What she saw was disheartening. The room was bare, and it was definitely a prison. There was no light, simply shadows and more shadows. The door was padlocked, easily seen from her prone position on the filthy ground. Around her straw was strewn, and in the corner was a small heap. It rested within the darkest shadow.

 

`All the better to hide in,' she guessed.

 

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Boton conveniently opened the portal in midair, directly above a nice barren field of demon life.

 

The four Spirit Detectives and their spirit guide landed in a heap, limbs tangled and askew.

 

“And Bingo, we landed,” muttered the blue-haired girl. “Stupid portals never leading to the stupid spot… Stupid ogres not being able to process the stupid spot I wanted to stupidly go to…” Her ranting grew quiet as everyone slowly assessed just who they were on or under.

 

“God damnit, Kuwabara, get your large ass OFF OF ME!” came the first bellow.

 

“Hey Urameshi, shut up. My ass is not large, and I'm not sitting on you. I happen to be squishing Shorty.” Muffled curses were heard by all at this point. “I think, if I can see this right, you are under Kurama.”

 

Yusuke grunted. “Kurama, lay off the donuts and move. Yeesh, you would think a fox demon would watch his weight more.”

 

“That, Yusuke, was uncalled for. And my figure is just fine.” Kurama graciously squirmed off Yusuke, incidentally squashing a few fingers in the process of one pissed-off Spirit Detective.

 

From there the squirming mass of bodies began to sort itself out. Hiei, unfortunately being the first to go through the portal, was the last to gain fresh air and the lung capacity to use it. When he did garner this useful tool, however, he easily used it.

 

“You buffoons!” he raged. “The incompetence of all - the least you could have done was move faster!” Hiei began to go into a full-out tirade when he suddenly froze.

 

“Kurama,” he murmured. “Do you hear that…”

 

Kurama suddenly tensed. “I hear… buzzing.”

 

Everyone slowly began to look around.

 

“They feel evil… And they are coming for the north.” Kuwabara said softly.

 

“They?” gushed Boton. “Are there a lot of they, or a just a few, Kuwabara? Oh, please let there be only a few. If there are only a few then I won't be in the middle of a full fledged battle. Please, please, please…” She grew silent as the buzzing grew louder.

 

“Prepare yourselves. It sounds like we are going to have a fight, and in the air no less.” Yusuke grinned. “Good ol' demon world. Always there to brighten my day.”

 

The team began to prepare their defense.

 

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She was sitting there in the corner with the hay. She had no idea how long it had taken her to get there. It seemed like hours, even days, had gone by while she painstakingly crawled over to her corner. There she was left to sit and try and remember anything.

 

Her eyes kept flitting back to the door. She kept expecting someone to come waltzing through. With this thought came dread. Possibly her captor.

 

She painfully jumped when she saw something scurry in the corner of her cell. She watched for a moment, only relaxing when she realized it was a rat. An insanely big rat with long, yellow teeth, but not something that could necessarily hurt her… too badly.

 

She kept watching it as it moved closer. Her world narrowed down just this rat, the only other living thing in her world. It was her new companion.

 

She focused on it's eye, it's beady little, black eye that was peering unabashedly at her.

 

That eye.

 

It reminded her of something. She didn't know what, but it did. She kept watching. The picture in her mind began to flicker. The rat began to become orange, it's tail no longer hairless and long, but short and fluffy. She began to see a little fox boy. A smile drifted across her face. He was laughing, this little fox boy.

 

Fox boy. She jolted a bit thinking those words. `What am I thinking? There's no such thing as a boy that has a fox tail and ears. I've been sitting here too long. I'm hallucinating. That has to be it. So much for memories returning.'

 

She grunted, the sound hardly registering in the dank pit.

 

Nevertheless, the images persisted. She began to see the little boy - boy, as she refused to call him fox, in other scenes. There was one where he was laughing. And another where he was fighting. Her chest pained at that. `Who's picking on her little boy?'

 

`Her little boy?? Where had that come from?' The images didn't stop with her pause, however. They continued. Next the boy was digging in a bag. His cry of achievement was loud when he found his prize - a giant lollipop. Here he was drawing pictures of his Mommy.

 

Here he was arguing. He seemed angered…

 

“I knew it! I knew it, you oversized dummy! Why did you have to make her mad?” He kept muttering. “Now she went home and I won't get to see her for days and days,' he exaggerated.

 

The little boy hung his head. “I want to see her… I want to see my Mommy. I love her…”

 

The voice faded, leaving the cell empty and quiet.

 

Then she saw the little boy laying in a field, dead, his stomach cut open.

 

Mommy.

 

She heaved at the sight.

 

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BoxingKing here. I was doing pretty good with writing each day until school started. I had this done before and originally thought it could use some more length. Looking back now, I figure just updating would be nice - so unfortunately you all get a short chapter. Based upon work and homework, I'll write and update. In the meantime, read, enjoy, and review. I think I may also be posting a new story soon. :D