Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Rose that Binds ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

Ok, so I'm loading this a day or two early. I'm bored, my computer is working and my one reviewer asked it of me. I highly doubt I'm gonna get any complaints…So, yeah. Next update will be sometime next week. I'd like to thank my one reviewer so far: HeartStar. Thanks, and here's your update. Once again, I combined chapters, this time 2 and 3. It will probably go on like this until after chapter 8, where they start getting longer. Read and enjoy (I hope).

 

Sorry, all, I kinda messed up on the last upload, so I deleted, then uploaded again.

_________________________________________________________________ _____________

 

Chapter 2

 

Flashback

 

A thirty year old Saiyu watched in glee as her grandfather, Youko Kurama, made flowers dance and butterflies flock to the sweet smelling blossoms, only to fly away in a great horde when the flowers disappeared. She clapped her hands.

 

"Again! Again, Grandfather!" She pleaded. Youko was supposed to be teaching her to wield the Grass Sword, but instead he had decided to humor his young granddaughter with a few minor tricks.

 

"I'm afraid that will be all for today, Saiyu. Don't forget you are supposed to be learning to use your earthly powers," the silver kitsune reminded her. He was a beautiful fox with long silver hair, silver fox ears and five silver-toned tails. Of course, that was really no suprise, he was only seven hundred years old, still very young in demon years. He had taken some time off from being the infamous thief to help his late son, Shiyu, raise his first child and teach her to wield her powers to her advantage. She had learned quite fast. She could already master the Rose Whip at the age of nine, a skill that took Youko seven years more than that to learn. She could even call upon plants that were long dead, something Youko could only dream of doing. But he supposed that came with being a Spiritual/Elemental Wolf/Kitsune.

 

"But Grandfather, I already now how to wield the sword. Can you not teach me to do that trick with the flowers and butterflies?" Saiyu begged.

 

"You know how to use the Grass Sword, yes. But you don't know how to use the Redwood Sword."

 

"There is a Redwood Sword?" She asked in awe.

 

Youko nodded. "Yes." He glanced down the hill and saw Saiyu's mother, Kuraiya, waving to him. "But that lesson will have to wait another day. It is time for your mother to teach you to use your spiritual powers."

 

"Yes, alright. But you will teach me to use the Redwood Sword tomorrow, will you not?" She asked, looking up at him with big eyes. She knew he couldn't resist her puppy eyes.

 

He looked down and let out a groan. His granddaughter knew him too well. "Alright, I will teach you tomorrow. As long as you do what your mother says without compaint."

 

It was Saiyu's turn to groan. She contemplated, knowing that Youko would not teach her unless she agreed. "Fine, it is a deal." She held out her tiny hand and he shook it, sealing the bargain. Then she ran down the hill as fast as her short legs would allow.

 

The next day, Saiyu arrived at their usual meeting place a full thirty minutes early. She bounced up and down on her feet impatiently. When is he going to get here? Is he walking as slowly as possible just to make me wait longer? Suddenly, she heard her grandfather's agonized scream. She ran to the clearing where just yesterday they were playing with the butterflies. What she saw froze her in her tracks and caused her breath to catch in her throat, making her lungs burn. Youko Kurama was covered with various wounds, trying to fend off the attacks that were being thrown at him unendingly. She glanced at the demon attacking her beloved grandfather.

 

In other circumstances, she would have found him very attractive. He had long, curly ebony hair, a fine-toned body, and beautiful green eyes. But there was something wrong with them. Looking closer, she saw that they were glinting with evil intent. There was no remorse for the man he was about to kill, leaving a heart broken family behind. In those eyes she saw his desire to kill and kill and kill until there was no one and nothing left.

 

Youko screamed again as five foot long spikes shot through his body, releasing poison on impact.

 

"Grandfather!" Saiyu screamed, rushing to his side.

 

"Saiyu, get out of here. He'll kill you too."

 

The young demoness embraced him, wrapping her small arms around his bloody shoulders. "No, I am staying," she told him, tears streaming down her cheeks.

 

Suddenly, he pushed her behind him protectively. He was flung back into a tree, taking the blow that was meant for her. Looking up at him, she saw that he was pinned to the tree by a double-sided axe made from some strange energy.

 

"No!" she sobbed, falling to her knees. She heard laughter behind her.

 

"Ha, ha, ha. What a glorious site. Such agony and torment. I love it!"

 

She turned around, facing the monster that took her most beloved family member away from her. Looking at him, laughing at her pain, she began to tremble. She clenched her shaking fists, hating this man, the source of her anguish. A strange glow surrounded her young body, growing larger with each tear that fell.

 

"You. Killed. Him," she ground out through clenched teeth. The glow continued to swell, each tear seeming to increase its mass. Then, with a cry from Saiyu, it was released, throwing the strange man back and destroying everything but the tree Youko was pinned to within a ten mile radius. When the smoke and dust cleared, all that could be seen was a young kitsune with blue-gray hair huddled beneath a tree, a tall man with blood-stained silver hair attached to it by an axe through his chest.

 

****

 

Saiyu shook her head. She had thought those memories had been buried deep. They always made her sad, and sadness was a weakness. It would consume you until there was nothing left but a hollow shell.

 

"Are you okay?"

 

She started and looked beside her. There was Youko Keisu, sitting next to her with a worried expression on his face. "Get away from me. Now," she said dangerously. He backed up quickly, sensing the little bit of power she revealed.

 

"Sorry, you just looked like you were about to cry. Wanna talk about it?"

 

She glared at him. This baka is too curious than is good for him. Suddenly they heard a thundering behind them. A huge demon, looking much like a beetle, burst throught the forestry, stopping just short of them.

 

"Who are you and what do you want?" Keisu asked, his posture tense.

 

"I am Shinogomaru. I was sent to kill you and retrieve your Sacred Jewel shard," the beast replied. "My master commanded it."

 

"And who is this master of yours?" Saiyu questioned, even though she had a good idea what the answer was.

 

"You of all people should know the answer to that, Princess. He is the great demon Kishan and he has ordered me to kill the male fox and bring the female along with the shards," Shinogomaru replied in his gravelly voice.

 

"And what need does he have of me?"

 

"Lord Kishan wants you as his mate."

 

Vòila, there ya have it. A little shorter than chapter 1, but hey, it works. Also, if anyone finds Saiyu's manner of speaking strange, it's supposed to be like that. It's how she learned to talk, without contractions. Hope you liked it and see you next week.