Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Bloodlust ❯ "I hope you've thought this through." ( Chapter 3 )

Bloodlust
by Moonraker One

Author's Note: The demonification scene is probably not for the kiddies. No sexual activity will occur, but I will admit there is nudity. If you can't stomach it don't read it.

CHAPTER THREE - “I hope you've thought it over.”

The dim, morning light entered Yusuke's eyes, causing him to look up; the brilliant array of colors that only showed themselves during the earliest morning hours reminded him of Keiko's aura. The girl had a unique aura signature, even for a normal human. The afternoon before, she'd told him that she'd wanted to become a demon, although he considered it to be a hasty move, a jump of the gun, and she hadn't seriously considered her own words. He detected a noticeable flare-up of her aura the moment she asked if he could find a way to turn her into a demon. Despite the fact that he couldn't believe her words, she was serious. He felt in her aura that she actually wanted to become demonic. Walking the edges of the park in the wee hours of the morning reminded him of an incident where he discovered a series of demons attempting to kill several human women. He'd been thinking of Keiko then as well, when he found that they were working for his father Raizen, a demon king whom he'd never met. Yusuke swore one day to meet his father, and if possible, punish him for never being there for Atsuko. He never slept; he never got tired.
Why, Keiko? he wondered. Why now do you have to join my world? Demons are not friendly, you should know. He walked past a bush, and instinctively threw his right fist up to grab the neck of a figure he felt, who just barely managed to be caught. Turning his head revealed that it was Hiei. He let go.
“So, you can't sleep either, Urameshi?” the fire demon asked, nonchalantly removing his hand from the handle of his blade.
Yusuke shook the night out of his eyes. “My friend, Keiko's...she told me something a little disturbing. She wants to become one of us.”
Hiei didn't agree. “No, I can't have a normal human woman as part of this group, even if it is your decision. She'd just bog us down.”
“But that's the issue,” Yusuke interrupted. “She wants to become demonic. I mean, full-blooded demon; the whole works.”
“Not a problem; Kurama and I both know the spell involved. And it requires that Rapacious Orb I gave you.”
“No, you don't understand. It's NOT that simple. I mean, I've never seen a person after they've become demonic. She won't be the same. There'll be no way she'll be able to look at the world the same way ever again. Plus, she may not survive the spell.”
“Don't be stupid,” Hiei fired back. “I see that the girl has some spiritual fortitude within her. She'll become a demon without it killing her. She'll be about eight-tenths of Lando's power, I estimate.”
“You're totally missing the ultimate point, Hiei,” he could not believe that the fire demon could think only of the objective aspects of her demonification. Yusuke did not want to see her writhing in pain as he knew she would do, due to the pain he knew the spell would cause. “She's just a mortal girl, how can I subject her to such terror as the pain that one experiences due to demonification? She may permanently be scarred on a psychological level!” Before he could finish the last part of his sentence, he whipped his left hand's fingers into a pistol formation and pointed the index finger at a shadowy target, faster than Hiei could possibly see him move. A moment before he would have fired, he recognized the aura signature as belonging to Kurama. “Oh, geez, it's you. I almost blew a hole through you. Quit sneaking up on me.”
“Sorry about the intrusion,” the red-haired fox demon said. “It's just that I heard you were planning to give your artifact back to Koenma after you were finished with it. I wanted to do the same thing with the mirror of darkness after I used it. That and, if you really want to go through with this, you're going to need three people.”
Hiei finished the explanation. “You can be the activator, the person that has to initiate the change, and provide the demon blood which will serve as the basis for her newfound body.”
“I thought that if we mix samples of our demon bloods together we can provide a much more efficient transformation,” Kurama interrupted. Hiei shot him a glance of, “quit interrupting me,” and continued with his explanation.
“Kurama and myself will be the energy providers providing the soul energy requirement to catalyze the spiritual change. Now, we need to go get Keiko and explain to her what she needs to do in all of this.”
Yusuke was stunned. “Right now?! It's five o'clock in the morning on a saturday! Don't you think she's got her day planned?”
Hiei fired off a grin, and replied, “Well, let's just say she's about to get a schedule change.”


Keiko Yukimura had a tendency to sleep in on saturdays, so it came as a surprise to her when she rolled over in bed and came in contact with a pair of feet. A series of events occurred all at once; first, her eyes snapped open like shutters in a hurricane, immediately followed by her vocal chords attempting to make her scream, which was abruptly halted by a hand latching over her mouth. Unfortunately, she had no time to see who the mysterious stranger was, so she bit down hard on the hand covering her mouth, which caused the figure to let go and let out a mild groan of pain–obviously this person had a high pain tolerance–right before tumbling off her bed and crashing to the ground. She leaned over her bedside and grabbed a baseball bat she happened to have under her bed in case strangers ever broke in, and leaned over the opposing side of the bed to bash the head of the intruder in, when she noticed that it belonged to a familiar individual. “Yusuke!” she screeched in a whisper. “What the hell are you doing on my floor?”
“Obviously waiting for the BITE MARKS on my hand to heal!” he replied in a similar tone. “Geez! If I wasn't a demon, that really would've hurt!”
“No, what I meant was what're you doing in my room?! How'd you get in without my parents noticing!?”
“I can teleport, remember?” He shook his head. “Regardless of how I got here, I'm here to tell you that I accepted your offer, grudgingly, anyway.” He'd hoped to continue, but she interrupted him.
“So, you're going to turn me into a demon?”
He rolled his eyes. “Actually, me and two friends of mine are going to, as this requires three people. Let me warn you: during the transformation, you're going to be experiencing some of the worst nightmares you've ever had. In fact, to prevent you from causing bodily harm to yourself, we're gonna have to tie you to a rock. This process will probably take all afternoon; you okay with that?”
She nodded; it took him by surprise how brave (or possibly foolish) she was. He knew that she couldn't possibly understand the horrors that awaited her during the transformation process. As such, he mentally constructed a list of things that would be required besides the already needed items, and could think of only two important ones. “Meet me in the park, later on today, with some dark blue candles and some incense. Color of candles is important, so I'm gonna need dark blue.”
As soon as he thought she knew what she had to do, he disappeared into thin air, teleporting out into the forest, where his friends would be waiting to aid him in the ritual that would take place.


Hiei paced back and forth, a grim snarl-like look on his face. He could simply not believe that he'd agreed so readily to do something that may put him on even worse terms with Koenma. Then again, since when did he give a rat's ass about what he felt towards Ko-enema? “Kurama, have you ever done this before?” His youko ally had done such a ritual several times before, and each time the results had been mixed. Sometimes the recipient of the transformation would be the same, others they'd be driven insane. He didn't, however, want Yusuke to know.
“Yeah,” he replied, bringing to mind some of the more colorful results. “I've done this before.” Right before the conversation could continue, the third member of the group appeared; Yusuke had arrived, with the rapacious orb in hand. They had questions, and he had answers, but what they wondered was whether or not those answers were the ones they wanted.
“Did she agree?” Hiei had primarily in mind. “Did she agree, even after you told her the problems she'd face?” A nod signified his answer as being correct. The short fire demon had never heard of a human female who had the guts that this Keiko chick had. To him, it seemed like complete foolishness that she would so willingly surrender her human side to join the ranks of the demons, just for the purpose of understanding them. Such he likened to shooting oneself in the head to see if they were immune or not to bullets.
“So, did you make sure to tell her to bring the candles and incense?” such was Kurama's mentality; he seldom would ask, in such a situation, the questions regarding how the individual would handle it, merely if they had what was necessary. In any case, he knew his part had to be played perfectly as well as Hiei's or else the entire ritual would go horribly wrong and potential lives would be lost.


Keiko sat up in her seat, gathering her courage before she dipped her fork into her plate of eggs and bacon, with her usual side of pancakes on the side. For the longest time that she'd known Urameshi for all his ways, she never understood much of what he told her about the demonic side of life, and as such, she required him to explain almost everything. Now, as she shoveled bits of eggs into her mouth, she sat in eager excitement about the prospect of joining him in the world that she'd only heard about. Sure, she predicted that there would be some trial and tribulation, but no pain that she suffered would be too much in order to finally understand him completely. Her father noticed the familiar anticipation in her eyes as they ate together. He knew from experience that she only had that particular twinkle in her eye when something exciting was about to occur. As such, he wondered what it was.
“Keiko,” he inquired, “are you waiting for something?” She chuckled; there was no way she could explain to him that she was about to undergo a complicated ritual in the forest to become demonic. First of all, he probably wouldn't believe it, but even if he did, he most likely wouldn't take to kindly to the prospect.
“Yeah, I've got a date with Yusuke,” she lied. Now, her father was one of the very few individuals in the entire city that didn't hate the mere mention of Yusuke's name. Such was rare, considering his reputation wasn't exactly unknown. But since he was a friend of hers and he had supported her family in the past, they were on good terms. This certainly helped her lie gain credibility quickly. “He's going to take me to this new movie that came out recently.”
Her father smiled. “I'm glad you two are getting along,” he admitted. He knew the bad rap that Yusuke got from almost every person who knew him, and frankly, he considered it rubbish. He knew good and well exactly what the problem was: the boy was a demon. He'd always seen the boy care for his daughter Keiko and he'd always known the boy to protect her with everything he could anytime she was in trouble, even going so far as to beat up an entire group of people who had cornered her in a dark alley one day. Thus, he could forsee Keiko and Yusuke getting married, possibly sooner than later.
She stood up from her seat and prepared to exit. “I gotta go dad, we're most likely going to be spending the afternoon together.”
He looked at his watch. “Already? It's quite early in the morning! I wouldn't even be up if you hadn't gotten me up!”
She chuckled. “Yeah, I know dad.” she gave him a small peck on the cheek. “Love you, I'll be back later.”
“Have fun!” he yelled, waving as she left. It always amazed him how the boy who was a demon had such a kind heart. He had always read that demons were heartless and destructive, yet the boy was only mean to those who wronged him. Yes, if there was anyone he could trust to keep his daughter safe, it was Yusuke Urameshi.


The excitement in her mind hit a fever pitch when she arrived on the scene in the middle of the park with a small bag of the required dark blue candles and incense. He snatched the bag from her grasp, and checked it; good, she had achieved the correct items. Her heart skipped a beat when he took her hand in his, and began to explain the final details. “Now Keiko, before we do this, I absolutely have to be sure that you want to do this,” he stated in no uncertain terms. “You MUST be positive of this. You cannot change your mind once the ritual has begun, or it could kill you. You have to want this. And once it has been complete, it is fully irreversible. ARE YOU SURE?”
She nodded silently.
He wiped a bit of sweat off his brow. “Okay then, it's time to make a demon out of you. Just make sure you realize one thing.”
She looked at him with a confused look. “What one thing is that?”
“No matter what you hear me say, no matter what I do to you, it's only a dream. If you forget that, you'll go into complete psychosis and one of us will have to put you out of your misery.” He saw her clear her throat and look down. “You can back out NOW, you can't back out later. Do you still want to do this?”
She fought the prospect of his words for a moment, then nodded.
He mouthed a silent “wow,” and coughed. “Damn, you are far braver than I am, Keiko. If I was human, I'd have backed out a while ago.” With one quick motion, he gripped her hand tighter and teleported them both to the middle of the forest. She stood back in awe at the scenery; the trees were huge, and a good sized circular area had been cleared out by the other three members of the group for the ritual. There was a large stone in the middle that had been carved into a bed by Kurama's rose whip, complete with metal rings with chains attached. She almost cringed at the sight; they were very thick chains, looking more like they were to tie down a truck bed than a human being. Lando, standing behind Hiei, noticed this and laughed.
“This person is brave,” he acknowledged. The other two agreed with him. “Hello, my name is Lando and I'm one of Yusuke's allies, along with Hiei and Kurama here.” She waved at them and said hello.
Hiei looked her up and down for a once-over, obviously not impressed with what he saw. “She's just an ordinary human female,” he scoffed. “What about her interests you?”
“Let's not argue, let's just get this underway,” Kurama said, attempting to cool down the situation caused by Hiei's statement.
“Yes, let's,” Yusuke growled.
For the ritual to begin, she first had to strip down to only her bra and panties, a prospect that made her nervous. However, once she saw that none of them (except possibly Yusuke) displayed any...ill intent towards her, she agreed to do so, even if it made her nervous. Once she was virtually naked, she sat upwards on the rock, immediately shivering at the how cold it was, but after awhile she finally stretched out horizontally on the smooth surface. Kurama and Lando attached the chains' ends to her wrists to prevent any struggling (which was inevitable due to the pain this ritual caused), causing her to become unhinged slightly as they took her forearms firmly in their grasp and, stretching them as far as would still be painless, chained them to the rock's surface. They did the same to her legs, ensuring that no harm was done. Yusuke picked up the rapacious orb, approaching Hiei and Kurama with it.
“So, Kurama, what's this theory of yours that if we combine blood samples from us three, it'll improve the odds?” Yusuke's question almost insulted Kurama, for his theories were seldom wrong. Nonetheless, the fox demon could perfectly understand his ally's hesitation.
“By gaining blood samples from all three of us, it'll better allow her spirit to take our demon energy,” he patiently explained to Yusuke. “Also, it'll provide for more variation in the type of demon she becomes, which will make her less of a target for demons that prey on fellow members of their kind.” Having explained the final part of the requirements, Hiei took a knife from inside his shirt and tore a nasty gash in his left hand pouring about a cupful of blood onto the surface of the orb, moments later his hand would heal completely as though nothing happened. The blood mysteriously stayed in a pool atop the orb, waiting for Kurama's sample. The fox demon took Hiei's knife and cut a silghtly smaller gash in his right hand, letting a similar amount of blood fall on top of the fire demon's sample before it healed. Finally, it was Yusuke's turn to provide a sample, and he did; except when he did, the blood absorbed into the spherical orb itself, and the orb began to glow red.
“Party time,” Lando joked, taking his place at the edge of the clearing, ensuring that no being would interfere with the unholy ritual of demonification. Hiei and Kurama took their positions on opposing sides of Keiko, clasping both their hands around each of hers. Kurama looked to Yusuke.
“Yusuke, Hiei and myself will begin pumping our energy into Keiko. When I say to, and not a moment sooner or later, put your left hand on her stomach, and hold the orb high above your head with your right. If we do this correctly, her soul will travel through your body and into the orb in your opposing hand.”
“What'll happen then?”
Kurama looked in pity at the girl tied to the rock. He shook his head; this one was brave or foolish, he knew not which. “She'll be forced into six and a half hours of hell.” Hiei nodded, indicating he was ready. “Hiei, let us begin...now.” With the saying of the word “now” the two demons instantly began to push their own youki into Keiko through her hands. Kurama had far more experience at this ritual than Hiei, so the fire demon allowed him, grudgingly, to command the entire process. Had they been on equal terms, of course, the fire demon would be the one giving orders. Keiko began to squirm, slightly at first but violently after a few minutes, and Kurama could sense that their energy (which was poisonous to pure-blooded humans) was gathering, forcing her soul to the walls of her abdomen. He knew Yusuke had to touch her stomach at the moment it touched the skin wall, or else she would die from incompatibility issues with the mixing of human and demon energy. It shot upwards toward the gut cavity's wall with each passing second. At the moment before it hit, the fox demon screamed, “YUSUKE! NOW!”
He slapped his left hand on her stomach. All at once an enormous jolt of power shot through every inch of his frame at once, faster than light it rocketed through his right arm and smashed into the inside of the orb, threatening to launch it from his hand, but his grip held. The moment it landed inside the orb, his body, as those of Kurama and Hiei, were frozen in the positions they were in, making them unable to move. Yusuke could move but he dared not; it was too important he stay still. Both demons on her sides began to tire; her body was draining energy from them regardless of their attempts to control the flow. Painful seconds ticked by like hours with a reddish-orange dome covering the quartet. Only Lando was unaffected, as he had to keep watch. The glow of the rapacious orb's light grew at an alarming pace, causing Hiei to begin to get nervous.
“Everyone! Close your eyes or be blinded! The orb's gonna flash soon!”
In fact, the flash came sooner than they thought. Kurama and Yusuke barely had time to get their eyes shut before the single brightest light they'd ever seen shot in all directions from the orb. It was so luminous, in fact, that Yusuke could see everything that was going on despite his eyes shut tight. The energy within Keiko, a simply staggering amount of power drawn from the three demons, began to form into a pulsating mass of power within her. Kurama knew what was about to occur, so he warned the others as fast as he could.
“Brace yourself!”
“Why?” Hiei asked.
“When her soul shoots back into her body, we'll all be thrown in different directions!”
Each of the three got themselves ready to be launched as best they could. Unfortunately, the soul waited just long enough to reenter her body that it threw off their timing. Thus, they were completely unprepared for when Yusuke felt a massive jolt blast through him again, and reenter Keiko's body. Her soul landed with a sickening thud inside her abdomen cavity, like an bomb blast throwing the three demons in opposing directions, shaking Keiko so badly she almost dislocated both her arms. Yusuke seemed glad that his hardest part was over, yet now he had to endure watching her writhe in pain as her soul and the demon blood and energy reacted with each other. Screeches of pain she let out at every twist and rattle.
“Guys, I don't know if I can just sit back and watch,” Yusuke admitted.
“You HAVE to, Urameshi,” Hiei replied. “You know if you come too close to her you'll throw off the rhythm of the transformation.”
“Besides,” Kurama added. “She should be fine. Her body wasn't damaged in the catalyzing process, and that's a very good sign. It hurts to watch a loved one suffer, but just remember that she's a tough one. I can tell.”
Yusuke shook his head. “I know WE'RE over the worst part. But she hasn't even hit that mark yet.” Suddenly he remembered. “Um, so I light the candles and incense and spread 'em in a circle around her. What are the for, exactly?”
“Cover up the smell,” Kurama answered. “Demonification rituals stink–literally. Flesh-eating and cannibalistic demons flock to the stench.”
Yusuke raised an eyebrow. “Yeah, but...what's the importance of dark blue candles?!”
Kurama's face turned into a childish grin. “I just LOVE the smell of blueberry-scented candles!”
Hiei smacked his fellow demon's hand. “Will you focus?!”
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