Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ A family I never knew ❯ A true fairytale ( Chapter 2 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Just outside a quiet village with huts and dirt roads, with people who wore kimonos, and wielded archaic weapons two people sat and watched the stars. One was a pale skinned raven-haired beauty while the other was a red haired bushy tailed fox demon. The former held the later in her arms placing ardent kisses affectionately on top of the little one's head.

"It's such a beautiful night, ne?" the girl asked, her voice soft.

The kitsune nodded automatically as he looked up, his head tilting slightly as he scrutinized the twinkling gems as they rested so innocently upon the black velvet night sky. He guessed it was okay but the little illusionist preferred the day when the sun would shine.

"Yeah," he mumbled as he snuggled deeply into her arms.

A sudden wave of comfort flooded over him as he felt her long milky arms tighten lovingly around his small body. Content to stay in her arms as long as she would allow him, the kit returned his attention back to the sky. And there they sat, each taking comfort from the other's presence even as their eyes feasted upon the dark glory of the heavens. Suddenly falling stars began to streak the sky. The kit watched in awe as they fell and the young woman watched his face in amusement as he saw the falling lights for the first time.

“Hmm, father sky is crying tonight” she whispered.

Although the woman child didn't intend for her words to be heard the youkai in her arms heard her loud and clear.

“Who is father sky momma?” he asked innocently

Sapphire eyes softened and closed in both fond and painful memories.

A five-year-old Kagome sat in her mother's lap staring into her bottomless brown eyes.

“Momma where is daddy”?

Tears streaked down the woman's face. She was sworn to secrecy never to tell the child of her true parents.

“(I want her to be normal)” “(Promise me she will be normal Hikime)”.

“(What future she has is her own Keiko, but I promise not to ever speak your names before her)”

“He is sleeping in the sky Kagome”

The child cocked her head to the side looking up at the only woman she ever knew to be her mother quizzically. Those intelligent indigo eyes bore into her very soul, so much like her birth mother.

“Why”?

Hikime wiped the tears from her face and smiled down at the child. Hikime had always been friends with the Urameshis and knew of Yuusuke's secret as the ancestral son of Raizen. She was a priestess of the Higurashi clan after all. She remembered how Yuusuke said it was a tradition for a father to give a name that would reflect on the father's hope for the child. Raizen's name meant defeat all. Raizen then in turn after three months of training with him stopped calling Yuusuke child and named him Reizen, which meant command all.

“(What will you name your child Yuu-san)”?

The longhaired man smiled, “(We have to have a child first Hikime-san but if we ever have a child I'll call he or she Kaezen)”

Hikime focused on the child before her. She pressed a kiss into the crown of the midnight curtain that was so much like her father's. Never would she speak the name of this child's parents to her but that didn't stop her from telling stories about them. She gathered the child in her arms and began to make up a fable for the child, filled with demon kings and other magical creatures all the while telling the child about her parents.

Kagome opened her eyes.

`Its my turn to tell the story'

“Once upon a time long ago there was a demon king, he was ruthless and considered a god among his kind but then Raizen fell in love with a mortal woman”

The familiar words to the story her mother told her long ago when she asked about her daddy rolled of her tongue easily. She knew that it was something that Hikime only said to make her feel better but Kagome could never call Hikime's ex-husband Saito her father. So the raven haired beauty clung to the story hoping one day that she might meet her true father and ask the singular question that burned in her soul since she was old enough to understand.

`Why'?

Shippou looked anxious for her to continue and so she did.

“But like most loves between the mortal and the immortal it ended painfully, Raizen's beloved died giving him a son he named Reizen and Raizen disappeared soon after”

The kitsune gasped, “Why didn't he take Reizen with him”?

Kagome shrugged.

“The child was almost exactly like his mother and Raizen was pained because of it. Being a hanyou Reizen wasn't treated well by the villagers of his homeland few treated him with respect and all treated him with contempt”

“Like Inuyasha” she nodded at the clever child's deduction.

“Reizen grew up hated by most as each day he grew stronger and more notorious for his skill in the craft of war by this time he had only a handful of friends one being the secret love of his life”

Shippou wrinkled his nose cutely and his `mother' smiled down at him.

“Who were the others?” he asked

“One was a human who possessed a weapon called the spirit sword a weapon made purely out of his own energy, another was a forbidden child of the Koorime, with them was a old but powerful miko who raised Reizen and trained him, and last but certainly not least was a silver kitsune thief”

That had caught the kit's attention. He nearly bounced up and down with energy asking about the silver kitsune. Kagome chuckled at his enthusiasm and spoke of what she knew of the silver kitsune. And on went her story until Shippou fell asleep in her arms. She smiled down sadly at her `child' before looking up at the heavens. The stars no longer fell but the stars still twinkled merrily in the night.

“(And so when the battle was won and it came time for Reizen and his beloved to part ways, they still wanted to watch over their' little daughter)”

A five-year-old Kagome clapped her hands together and smiled toothily at her mother.

“(Me)”!

“(Yes my little Kaezen you, so Reizen's spirit became the night sky and so every time you see a star fall from the sky you know it is your daddy shedding tears until we meet again)”

“Goodnight daddy” she whispered

Kagome closed her eyesand so sleep claimed her