Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Destiny is a curious thing ❯ Inner troubles ( Chapter 1 )

HOLA A TODO EL MUNDO!! La chica dragon maestra del hielo está de regreso!! Hurra por mi!! OH SI!! Ok, here's my second fic published in the ner, I hope you'll enjoy it. I don't want to be demanding or anything, but I want at least 10 reviews to update, so, if you like this, you know what to do!!

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Chapter one: Inner troubles

Yusuke collapsed in the wooden floor of a room at Genkai's temple. He an the guys had just come back from a new mission that Koenma gave them, something about killing a rebel youkai that ate human souls, you know, the usual Reikai Tantei stuff. The only problem was that this youkai was a little harder challenge that the ones that they usually faced, in resume, it whipped the floor with the four of them, but finally they cut its head off thanks to a rage attack from Hiei, unfortunately for the monster and luckily for the guys, the fire demon was not in a very good mood…

"Oh my God Kazuma! Are you Ok?" Yukina cried worriedly as she saw Kuwabara's wounds. He was pretty bad to be honest, but to impress Yukina he'll do anything, so he put on a fake cocky smile and chuckled a "Sure I am, beautiful Yukina!", but he was busted when a sharp pain coming from his broken ribs was reflected in his face.

Hiei snorted and rolled his eyes trying to evade any image of his sister and the orange-head clown. It made him sick to see Kuwabara chasing Yukina all day long, but there was nothing he could do about it. He notices some blood dripping from an open wound in his right arms and licked it of. He was in a really bad condition, but he wouldn't complain or say anything about it. He'll just wait in silence until Yukina healed him.

"That's it Kurama, how do you feel now?" The koorime smiled happily at him when she finished wrapping his torso in bandages.

"It feels so much better Yukina, thank you so much". He said with his usual politeness and the blue hair girl nodded thankfully.

"Well, that was hard, I haven't feel so exhausted since Genkai's first trainment…" Yusuke mumbled still laying in the cold floor, arms and legs wide open forming a X shape.

"Hn. What are you talking about? You were pathetic. You should be thankful that I was there to save your worthless souls from hell." Hiei growled making Yusuke furious, but he didn't answered back, he was to exhausted to argue with the red-eye demon.

"What are you talking about shrimp?! You had a very hard time too if you don't remember!!" Hiei glared at Kuwabara and the orange-head stuck his tongue at him. Hiei just arched a brow and looked away, why waste energy at him when he needed it to heal? He'll show Kuwabara some respect later.

"To be honest…" Kurama said in an ice cold tone of voice. "…our performance, and by that I mean the four of us, was quite pitiful if I might say so."

"KURAMA!!" Kuwabara yelled at him not very pleased with Kurama's statement, mostly because in the bottom of his heart he knew Kurama was right. They were lucky they made it through this time, to not say less.

"Kurama's right, we suck." Yusuke sighed. "Worst of all, we've been sucking for a good time now…"

"Speak for yourselves." Hiei said stubbornly, although he knew it was true. It didn't mattered he had chopped the youkai's head off, he has to admit that it hadn't been the brightest of his fights.

"I think you need to talk, so I'll better leave you alone. If you need anything, just call me, Ok?" Yukina said a little uncomfortable with the energy of the room. They were tense, they were having problems, as a team and as individuals. She closed silently the paper door behind her and sighed.

"So?" Genkai was waiting for her outside. Yukina nodded no and Genkai crossed her arms.

"I see." The ex-fighter mumbled taking her hand to he chin. "I have a phone call to make then. If you excuse me Yukina." The young girl moved letting Genkai pass. She then glanced back at the closed rice paper door with a sad expression and continued her way.

* * * * *

In the hallways of Sarayashiki Jr. High…

"Keiko!! WAIT!! Let me explain it!!" Yusuke ran desperately after a raging Keiko. IT had been 6 days of recovery from his last mission, and well, the "Ice bitch" attitude Keiko had when she saw him was the last he expected from his now girlfriend.

"I don't want to hear it Yusuke."

"BUT KEIKO!" He finally caught her arm and made her look at him. "It wasn't my fault!!"

"That's the 6th time you leave me waiting at the movie theater entrance!! Do you have any idea how embarrassing that is?! And its just been a month since you and I started dating!! SIX TIMES IN A MONTH YUSUKE!!"

"WELL, WHAT DID YOU WANTED ME TO DO? KOWNMA NEEDED US!!! I HAD TO-"

"You had to save the world. AGAIN." His sentence was violently cut by Keiko's finger in his lips and her sad eyes. "But when will it end Yusuke? When?"

"I…" Yusuke looked at his feet, incapable to stand Keiko's watery eyes. He knew something was wrong, and a pain in his heart started giving him the idea of where this conversation was going to end. "…I don't know…"

"Exactly Yusuke. Do you know how does it feel like to me? Not knowing if I'll ever see you again? If you'll come back alive? I just…" A single tear ran down her cheek. "I saw your dead body once Yusuke. I was there, by your corpse's side day after day, waiting for you to open your eyes…if something happened to you…I just…I just couldn't stand it…not again…"

"Keiko…"Yusuke said worriedly and touched her shoulder, but she shook it away and crossed her arms, turning her back to him, "You know I can quit."

"I know. I know you live for it, that you don't feel useless anymore…but I don't know if I can live like that…"

"Then, how do you want to live?" Yusuke shut his eyes closed, praying he wouldn't hear what he was fearing Keiko will say.

"I love you Yusuke, you know that, and the last thing I want to do is hurt you…" She turned to him and kissed him gently in the cheek in a bittersweet way…Yusuke stood motionless, almost lifeless as Keiko's shadow vanished in the corner. "…but I can't keep hurting myself for something that won't change…"

That was it. He always thought that they will be together forever. That they were meant to be. That after all they've gone through nothing will tear them apart. But that was it, it was over. After everything they had lived, it was over. He wanted to cry, not no tear fell. Instead he just downed his head and smirked. He had died and came back to life, this wasn't so different. He would move on and forget her…

Right?

Right…

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Kuwabara's house…

"9 points of 100…" Shiziru looked through the kitchen's window as she smoked a cigarette. Kuwabara was sitting at the tale, his head down looking with disgust his test.

"What do you have to say?" Kuwabara said nothing."

Yeah, I suppose you'll do that." She sighed letting smoke scape from her lips. "You know that I worry about you Kazuma, I really do. But you know what? It seems like it doesn't matter what I do, you simply don't seem to get it, right?" kuwabara looked at his sister without raising his head, he was too ashamed to look her into the eyes. "I love you Kazuma, believe it or not."She said taking the cigarette back to her mouth." That's why I want you to finish school, to go to college and have a decent life, not like me…" She sighed and glanced at the test. "But you simply don't seem to get it, you don't get it…" She sighed and walked away from the room, leaving Kuwabara alone and ashamed with himself. It hurt him so much to disappoint his sister. Since their father died, Shizuru was the one to take care of him. She quitted school so she could work and maintain him. And how did he paid her? Failing. Over and over again…

Guess it was true what people said about him, He was really stupid after all…

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Meiou High school gardens…

"Uh? Senpai Minamino? May I have a word with you?" A quite pretty girl tugged Kurama's uniform shirt to get his attention. Kurama sighed to his insides. He knew perfectly what she was apt to, and to be honest, e was tired of things like that. "I just…" The girl lowered her head and blushed wildly as she gave a letter to Kurama with her shaky hands. "I just want to give you this!" She said hurriedly and dashed away, leaving Kurama with, yes, another love letter from a girl that he wouldn't even read.

Kurama sighed as he noticed a trash can beside him, glancing quickly at the pink envelope sealed with a heart sticker, wondering if he should…

"DON'T YOU DARE MINAMINO!!" A couple of guys walked to Kurama chuckling some senseless babbling about how lucky he was by having all the girls crazy about him.

Lucky? If they only knew. Having all this women at his feet, and not being able to return the feelings of love to anyone of them. As a youkai, and a Kitsune to be exact, he will live at least another 800 years if ain't killed first. When Suichi Minamino's human body dies, he'll be back to being only Yoko Kurama, but every single happy and painful moment that he lived as a ningen will remain in his heart and mind. So what was the point of falling in love if he will just look at his woman get sick and old for about 50? 60? 80 years? And then watch her die? He had enough with the thought that he'll see his mother and friends die someday and there was nothing he could do about it. Just to think of it was to painful. Now, to imagine watching a human wife and children suffer the same fate? No thanks.

He could always look for a Youkai mate, a real mate, not a lover. He could have thousands of them, it didn't matter her specie. But what Youkai female that respected herself will lay her eyes in a man that became human to save his life? It would be the lowest she could get…

None of this "love" things mattered to him before. Before it was only him, and sex to satisfy his lust, kill or be killed, steal to survive. He had faced the cruelty of Makai in all its forms, but he had met this whole world that "softened him up" and fill his heart with all this new concepts , thing he could never have.

Whatever, he had spent centuries alone, just looking for company to calm his instincts. Guess a couple hundred of years more couldn't hurt him that bad

* * * * *

A cafeteria somewhere in the city…

"There you go". A peppy waitress grinned as she gave Hiei a giant vanilla milkshake. He hated being surrounded by so many people, specially humans, but he had become addict to sweet snow in all its forms. So, he could always hypnotize someone and get it without paying. Lucky for him that stealing in ningenkai was allowed for Youkais without getting their souls damned for the rest of the eternity.

He left the cafeteria and walked like a normal boy around the city. He didn't even mind the disgusting smell to smoke and human sweat mixed, he was to busy thinking about vanilla cones, but mostly he was remembering his last fight. Who would ever imagine that HE above every single youkai will end up being a Reikai Tantei? Quite a cruel joke from destiny, but after all, life is a cruel joke, and he was the living proof of it. Rejected from birth, destined to death, saved by a weak heart that launched him to a even more cruel destiny. He was a man destined to loneliness and sadness marked with the cruelty of life and incapable of being loved due he risks the lifes of everyone that cares for him. His mother, his sister… come on!! He even got trough all the living hell of having the Jagan Eye implanted so he could find her and ended practically bumping to her without using the damn thing when he thought it was useless!! Sometimes he wondered what would had happened if he had died as a child, maybe everyone will be happier, including him…

As Hiei wondered in his own mind labyrinth of his most dark, depressing and suicidal thoughts, three youkis woke him up from his black reverie. He could also a human presence, but where did they came from?

His eyes were fixated in a couple of shadows vanishing in an alley. He could sense those spiritual energies and 4 different scents. He smirked, Just what he needed to cheer up, a good fight.

Using his speed he vanished from between the crowd leaving his milkshake forgotten, he could always have another one….

He watched silently from the roof of an abandoned building next to the forest his preys. Three men wearing brown cloaks and black shades had cuffed a human girl that sobbed desperately. The 3 men were from different heights: one was about Kurama's, another about Yusuke's nad the last one was even shorter than him (A/NÑ Is that even human possible O_o?), and they were definetly youkais, he could sense it. They spiritual energies were not that big, nothing he couldn't handle, I'll just take him a couple of seconds.

The poor girl was about Yusuke's age and height. She wore some clothes similar to what Keiko calls "uniform", she had long brown hair tied up in a high braid that reached to her middle back and her bangs mildly covered her big green eyes that were almost red for all her crying.

"Don't, please don't…" She whimpered sadly.

"Oh, SHUT UP!!" The tallest man said with a really husky voice.

"Stupid girl, I can't stand her whining!! When will those dudes show up?!!" The middle height guy said with a higher voice in a mocking tone. The girl cried again, but the two men just laughed cinically. The shortest one just stared at the sky.

A noise came from the bushed and two monsters emerged from the tress. They were enormous, huge!! Like 10" or so. Their skin was a slime gray shade and giant fangs came from their lower lips. Three horns in the top of their heads were hidden in a mass of messy white hair and their pointy ears outstand in their faces.

"It was about time". The tallest cloaked man crossed his arms and the shortest one walked to the monsters, extending his hand as if waiting to be given something from them.

"So, this is the girl?" One of the monsters asked.

"Yep. A virgin, just like you asked. Her name's Sakura. Say Hi Sakura!!" The girl burst into tears and fell into her knees. "She's a little shy, but I know she'll be…apt to please your needs."

"Yeah, yeah, where's our money?" The middle guy snorted and the other monster gave a suitcase to the shortest that hadn't say a word yet.

"There you go…."

"In that case." The tallest man pushed the human girl to the monsters, but they didn't noticed the smirk on her lips. One monster grabbed her by an arm pulling her up to them.

"KYAAAAA!!"

All of a sudden that monster was slashed right by his middle surprising everyone and scaring the hell out of them.

"WHAT THE-!!" The tall cloaked man frowned as Hiei landed and shook purple blood from his katana. He glanced at the dead body and smirked evilly.

"Better think twice what you are doing or you will end up like him."

"SHIT!!! IS A REIKAI TANTEI!!" The living monster cried horrified, pushed "Sakura" away and flee.

"WAIT!" "Sakura" growled as she landed with her face flat against the dirt, cursing to her insides.

"DAMNIT! WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!!" The tallest man growled to Hiei, but for his surprise, his voice was a "hers". "SETSUNA!! HOKUTO!! FOLLOW HIM!! DON'T LET HIM ESCAPE!!" The other two nodded and ran after him, but they were stopped by Hiei's katana.

"I don't quite think so."

"AKURYOU TAISAN!!"

Hiei got immobilized by a magic talisman. "Sakura" was standing in behind him in a defending pose with several talismans in her hands.

"WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? GO GET HIM HANASAKI!! I CAN HANDLE THIS DUDE!"

"GOTCHA SORA!" The middle guy, who's voice has also changed into a feminine one floated in the air and flew into the forest, followed by the tallest and the shortest that ran after her.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME!!" Hiei roared trying to get free of the talismans charm.

"Relax babyface, you'll be Ok in a couple of hours." She winked an eye to Him, making his blood boil.

"YOU FRAUDULENT WITCH!" Hiei growled showing his fangs. His youki started growing and his skin was becoming green. Hundreds of little eyes were beginning to born from his flesh, and she just giggled amused.

"WOAH! Pretty cool!!" She grinned, only succeeding in making him more furious. "But honestly, I must say green isn't your color." She leaned down mockingly and taking advantage of Hiei's disability, she placed another talisman right in his forehead, making his youki shrink in the most violent way. He was totally paralyzed and had lost the almost none mobility that had. Now he was having troubles even to talk.

"YOU…CAN'T…STOP ME…WITH THIS!!""

"Oh yes, I can." She stuck her tongue to him and took her hand to the back of her head. "See ya' cutie!" She shook the dust of her hands and walked as nothing had happened to the woods, leaving Hiei glaring daggers at her and still struggling to get his freedom back.

End of chapter one.