Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Frozen Tears ❯ Chapter I ( Chapter 1 )

Frozen Tears

Chapter I

 

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or Yuyu Hakusho.

 

Author: Chrystal-Hearts

 

Summary: Every demon hunts for the sacred jewel, but now it's found out that Kagome holds yet another jewel of value. A hiroseki or tear stone. This story holds many different things. Legends, history, battles, and more. Want to know why it's called Frozen Tears? Well read to find out!

 

 

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They group were traveling along a dirt road that passed through yet another forest, and they were almost all on edge. The kitsune was still following them and most of the group were not liking it. Kagome didn't really seem to mind though, and Shippo really could care less because he was in no danger. Kitsunes were protective of their kind, especially the kits, so another kitsune would not harm him. “Kagome?”

 

“Yes Shippo?” The woman asked as she pet the child's tail since he was in her arms.

 

“Will you help me do something later?” He asked as he looked at her with big green eyes.

 

“What do you need sweetie?” She asked as she looked at him curiously.

 

“I want to meet the kitsune following us.” He said as he cocked his head to the side. He quickly explained about how kitsune won't hurt their own kind, especially kits. “But I don't wanna go alone.”

 

“Of course I'll go with you sweetie.” Kagome said as she nuzzled him. “It would, after-all, be nice to find out who's tailing us.” The kit looked up at her for a few more moments and was about to say something else when Miroku called that it was time to break for lunch. So he scampered over to the monk to see what they were having.

 

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“Are you sure that this is the right way?” Kagome asked as she calmly looked around their surroundings. Shippo was leading them quite a ways from the rest of the group. “I don't think that we're even in Inuyasha's hearing range anymore.”

 

“Don't worry Kagome, the kitsune won't do anything to us.” The kit reassured her.

 

“The kit is right, I won't harm either of you.” Said a deep voice from behind them.

 

Kagome jumped and spun around only to be met with any girl's fantasy. Silver hair that cascaded down the kitsune's back, a silver tail, and silver ears. The latter being the best part. Her hands twitched at her sides as she had to contain herself. I mean the demon had just assured her that he wasn't going to hurt her. That meant she could play with his fluffy silver appendages without being in danger, right? Well she wanted to. Shaking herself mentally, she returned to the present occurrence. “Are you the one who's been following our group?”

 

“And if I am?” The kitsune asked as his eyes traveled the length of her body.

 

The young woman blushed at his appreciative stare as her eyes decided that the ground was interesting. “I was simply curious. Shippo wished to meet the kitsune whom tailed us.”

 

“I was curious about your group.” The kitsune replied smoothly as he his eyes flashed predatorily.

 

The young woman gulped as she caught the flash and backed away slightly. “What is it that you wanted to know?”

 

“Why is that a hanyou and two youkai travel with a taijiya and a houshi? Also, why are you in the group?” He asked in his silky deep baritone.

 

“Kagome's a miko.” Shippo answered, pride in his voice.

 

“A miko?” The kitsune questioned as he scrutinized her once again, this time more closely. “She barely has an aura.”

 

“She can only purify with her arrows.” The kit said from his spot in her arms. “I'm Shippo by the way.”

 

The adult kitsune smiled at the little cub, and then his gaze flickered to the woman. She got the hint, even though she thought it was slightly pointless to introduce herself when Shippo said her name. “Higurashi, Kagome.” And she even gave a slight bow.

 

“I am Youko Kurama.”

 

“The king of thieves?” Shippo asked excitely as his eyes grew wide.

 

“The one and only.” He replied as his eyes fastened onto Kagome.

 

Said girl gulped noticeably this time. “I think we should be getting back to the others now.”

 

“But Kagome..” Shippo whined as he gave her the puppy eyes.

 

“Fine.” She caved with a sigh, not being able to refuse the boy. “But we can only stay for a few more minutes.”

 

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”Did you really meet the king of thieves?” Sango asked as the two girls relaxed in the hot spring later that night.

 

“Yes, and he looked at me like I was food.” The girl said as her face heated up slightly.

 

“To him, you probably are.” The demon slayer said with a giggle.

 

“Haha very funny.” The red girl said as she glared at her friend.

 

“Well you know the stories about him, don't you?”

 

“Yeah, and they all say that he's a womanizer that loves using his kitsune seduction to get laid.” The miko said with a groan.

 

“The best I can do is tell you to try to stay with the group. He can't seduce you if we're there to stop him.”

 

“That is a good point.” Kagome said as she thought back to her earlier encounter with the spirit fox.

 

“Hey Kagome?”

 

“Hmmm….?” The girl asked as she slowly came from her thoughts.

 

“What is that pretty necklace you're wearing? I've never seen it on you before. That stone is really beautiful too.”

 

The miko looked down and realized that she still had on the necklace her grandfather had given her. “My grandfather found it in the well when he was a child and he gave it to me when I was younger.”

 

“What kind of stone is that?” The slayer asked as she eyed it critically.

 

The miko looked around and made sure no one was nearby before leaning close to her friend. “Promise me you won't tell anyone about this?” Her hand went up to gently stroke the sparkling gem and a sense of peace spread throughout her body. It always did that, and it held a certain aura around it; though she had no idea whose aura it was, but her guess was that it was the aura of the stone's true owner.

 

“You know I'll keep any secret you tell me Kagome-chan.” The slayer whispered back.

 

“My grandfather told me that it's a hiroseki, or tear gem of the ice maidens.”

 

The slayer gasped as her eyes flew to the stone. “How long have you been traveling with that?” Her voice was scared and laced with concern.

 

“I've always had it on me, but usually I hide it in my clothes before I take a bath with you or Shippo. My grandfather had me promise not to tell anyone about it because of how valuable it is, but I know that I can trust you.”

 

“How is it that you can keep that hidden?” The older woman asked in curiosity. “Demons can normally sense them, or at least high class demons can. Naraku probably should be able to.”

 

“I'm not sure, I simply wear it and I feel safe and protected.”

 

“Is that necklace why you look so peaceful right now?”

 

“I think so. I always feel calm and peaceful when I wear it.”

 

“May I… May I touch it?” The older woman asked nervously, causing Kagome to smile at her. She easily pulled the necklace off over her head and handed it to her friend. The slayer looked at it closely before her eyes widened slightly.

 

“What is it Sango-chan?”

 

“This gem… it's different then the ones I've seen before. It must be the reason why I didn't recognize it.”

 

“What do you mean?”

 

“It's aura, I've seen this kind only once before.”

 

“What do you mean `this kind'?”

 

“Did your grandfather tell you about the koorime?”

 

“For the most part. I don't remember all of it, he treaded on some of the traditions, but I was still to young to understand some of it.”

 

“Well an ice maiden sheds a single tear when they give birth, and that stone is very special. It's given to the child, put on a chain and placed on it's neck. You see, a koorime has a female child once every hundred years. This is one of the stones that are cried upon a child's birth.”

 

“So some child is missing their stone?” Kagome asked somewhat sadly.

 

“Quite possibly.” Sango said. “Or the child is dead. Koorime are hunted for their ability to cry such stones, and as such are sometimes killed during capture attempts.”

 

“Well if the rightful owner of this stone appears, I'll give it back to them.”

 

“How will you know if someone's the rightful owner?” Sango asked curiously.

 

“They're connected to the stone.” Kagome responded. “There's an energy that surrounds it and that energy changes sometimes. It's been getting stronger, so my guess is that the child is connected to it in someway.”

 

“That is quite possible.” Sango said as she thought for a moment. “One of their mating traditions is to present their intended with one of their own gems, it supposedly can be used to track their intended. So a gem could, in theory, be connected to the one it was shed for.”

 

“They mate their fellow ice maidens then?” Kagome asked curiously.

 

“From what I've heard, yes. I'm not sure how they came to be a race with only females though.”

 

“It was a war.” Kagome stated, remembering her grandfather telling her that.

 

“Huh? A war?”

 

“Hai. Their men went to war, all of the men. When the boys came of age they went to. Soon the opposing army took control and slaughtered all of the males, thus they became a solely female race. They were turned into slaves by the men of the opposing army. Only their enemies women treated them kindly, so they turned cold towards men. They escaped by killing off the men and sparing the women and fleeing to the north. Their genes slowly adapted so that they could reproduce. It's kinda like their cells clone themselves once a year.” Kagome explained.

 

“Did your grandfather tell you all that?” Sango asked in amazement.

 

“Hai, he's pretty well versed on demons when you actually need to know something. Though his stories can be long and tiresome sometimes.”

 

“So do you know how the race came to produce the stones?” The slayer asked, curiosity coloring her tone.

 

“A dying holy man went to their race for healing, but they refused him on the basis of him being male. So he cursed them to cry tears of stone to match their frozen hearts. Did you know that a hiroseki is actually a frozen tear and not a stone at all? The tears eternally freeze as they fall.”

 

“That is both sad and interesting.” The slayer commented as she handed the gleaming stone back to the young miko.

 

“That's what I thought.” The miko said with a sigh. “The koorime also are supposed to live in the far north where everything is cold, and they are also on a floating island. It supposedly floats on the wind currents, up so high that it's hard to reach. They keep themselves isolated in hopes that they can stay away from all men, and they forbid their own from laying with one.”

 

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Here is the second chapter, and I just thought of the name for this story. Now no saying anything if I screw up majorly… ok, say anything you want if I do. I am trying to make this good. I wonder how many of you can guess who's tear gem that is… but the important question is which time it's from? Could it have fallen down the well and passed through time and into the grandfather's hands? Or could it have sat in the well going unnoticed for five centuries? Or was it dropped by someone when they visited the well?

 

yusukekuramasgirl (I'll be trying to!)

 

Dyquem (Haunted Passions is actually one chapter away from being completed and I'm thinking on whether or not to halt Maboroshi Kage and create a sequel. But trust me, I can keep all of the fanfics going. While most have a problem with more than just a couple, I have trouble if I'm only writing a couple. You see, ideas will swarm my brain until I start writing them, only then can I switch back to writing my other stories. So I need to keep several going at a time. Besides, I have way more that I'm working on then I have posted, but I just couldn't stop myself from posting Frozen Tears, I wanted some fan criticism on it.)