Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Diary of a Demon's Slave ❯ Chapter 2

The sound of a whip cracking echoed throughout the dreary halls, one of the demons was trying to beat Gwenevere into submission. The chain tied to a hook on the blood stained walls, she found it impossible to move out of its range. “Stop!” She yelled in tears, her back against the corner, hoping that the demon would find it within himself to leave her be. “Please, stop!”

 

“SILENCE!” Yelled the werewolf looking demon. His yellow stained teeth glistened from the lit scones on the stonewalls. “You will learn to be quiet unless spoken to!” Anytime Gwenevere threatened to open her mouth, he would use the whip against her pallid skin.

 

The feel of the whip lashing at her skin brought Gwenevere to her knees. Her body felt as though it were on fire from all the continuous torment. She crawled her way to the nearest corner to ball up in a fetal position. With her hands guarding her head, she trembled with hope that he wouldn't use the whip on her again.

 

“Stop cowering like a damn mouse!” The demon demanded, walking over to grab Gwenevere by her messy hair again. Regardless of her crying, he dragged the woman from the corner she was scrunched up within. Just as he was about to raise his hand to her again, he stopped upon hearing the door open.

 

The blue skinned lizard demon appeared within the doorway, his thin, spider-like fingers tapped against the woodwork. “Tokukami wants to know how the breaking of this one goes, Nobu.” His serpent tail moved from side to side, as he leaned against the doorway with his arms crossed. “He wanted to try and sell this one sometime soon.”

 

A sarcastic chuckle overtook the wolf demon. “I don't think this one will be ready to sell just yet. She still doesn't know her place.” He watched as Gwenevere slowly rose up off of the ground. Taking his foot, he shoved it harshly onto the back of her head. “Stay down!” Nobu's voice was so loud that it reverberated off of the walls around them.

 

“Take it easy.” The lizard demon suggested, pushing Nobu back away from Gwenevere. “If you kill her, I doubt Tokukami is going to take kindly to it.”

 

“Well, I am done with this human beast, Yuki.” Nobu handed over the chain to Yuki, as he made his way out of the room. He had other humans on his list to set straight, and he wasn't about to waste his time with just the one he had been trying to break for a while.

 

Looking down at the sobbing woman, Yuki raised his brow to show he was unimpressed with the display before him. “Come on, you.” He pulled on the chain to make Gwenevere move from where she was lying.

 

Gwenevere was nearly drug off of the floor when she felt the lizard like demon pulling her from where she was. Struggling to find her feet, she walked with her head lowered back to the cage she was usually put in. All of the humans had been separated and put in different cages as the days passed, instead of them all being caged two by two. With her enclosure coming into view, she felt the demon push her right into the hay bedding once more. It was the same routine, and Gwenevere was almost getting used to it. Bringing her knees up to her chest, she covered her face from everyone nearby.

 

The doors at the front of the room several feet down from Gwenevere's cage flew open. She paid them no heed as she usually heard them open with somebody new coming into the group. “Let me go!” A familiar female voice yelled angrily. “Let me go!”

 

Wondering if Gwenevere was imagining it, she quickly ran to her cage door to look down the row of cages to see her best friend, Jade. She rarely ever got to see her online friend, as they were many hours from one another. “Oh my God…,” Gwenevere mumbled to herself in disbelief. “Jade!” She yelled, pushing her thin arm out from the cage wiring to try and reach her friend.

 

Hearing her name, Jade spun around to spy Gwenevere trapped within the many cages. “Gwen!” Trying her best to break free from her shackles, Jade shook back and forth with her wild, coffee-brown hair and pink bangs flowing from side to side. Growling angrily, Jade's sapphire eyes looked over her shoulder at the demon trying to keep her from escaping. “For the last time, I said let GO!” Ramming her elbow into the demon's chest, she ran quickly for Gwenevere's cage when her window of opportunity to run from the beast opened. Her wrists still bound, she grabbed onto Gwenevere's hand. “I cannot believe they captured you as well!”

 

Seeing the demon's shadow coming over Jade, Gwenevere panicked. “Jade, run!”

 

The demon coming up from behind Jade, he wrapped his arms around her front to make sure she couldn't move her arms as freely as before. “Easy there, girl,” the demon whispered with a devilish smirk. Even if Jade continued to squirm, he refused to release her until managing to push her within the cage he was ordered to place her within. Shutting the cage door on her face, he laughed at the mad frown the female woman gave him. “I wouldn't recommend trying that again. You just might upset the wrong person.” Smirking to himself, he walked back down the row of pens to head out of the zoo like atmosphere.

 

“How long have they had you here?” Jade asked once the demon disappeared from the room, trying to call over to Gwenevere.

 

“I don't know,” she answered honestly. “Each day just feels so long. It was back in May that they took me.” Gwenevere placed her fingers through her hair, trying her best to remember what all had transpired since that day.

 

“No wonder I haven't heard from you in so long,” Jade remarked almost breathlessly. “It is almost August!”

 

Gwenevere widened her eyes in disbelief. “It…it has been that long?”

 

It was hard to believe that many weeks, let alone, months, had passed. Each day I had been whipped, beaten, and starved to the point I probably lost all that weight they had been griping about when they first brought me down. I was taught how to act whenever I was to have a master—to basically be an obedient dog.

 

Every day I would watch them drag Jade out of her own cage to be put through the same torture as me. She refused to break under them. I admired her strength and courage, which was all something I couldn't find within myself to obtain through the long drawn out days.

 

07/2009

 

Within the forested regions of Makai, just outside of the demon city, the clean wind touched upon the lush greenery, which went on for miles. Suddenly, a cold breeze began to blow, followed by a trail of ice. The ice slowly began to encase everything, as if it were alive. Everything perfectly crystallized in a case of frost, the demon responsible stepped forwards while continuing his ice attacks upon the slippery surface of the ground he created with his powers. Being a shinobi of ice abilities, Touya continued to perfect his talents the best he could should he ever have to use them again. Powering up his ice shards in his right palm, he quickly spun around to blast them at a nearby tree before firing another barrage from his left palm at another tree.

 

Taking in a deep breath and letting it out, he brought his hands back in front of his face to try and recollect power within his palms by concentrating on sending the force there. Upon feeling it at hand, he tried to send the stream throughout his entire body next. Slowly but surely, he could feel it beginning to overtake him. Just as he felt he was at his peek of power, the rustling of the nearby bushes outside of his barrier caught his attention and broke his focus. His eyes flying open, he threw a powerful, icy chill blast in that direction.

 

Whatever was hiding there quickly escaped into the sky making him sigh irritably. “Jin, you bastard,” he called up into the sky. “This is no time for your games!”

 

Hovering upside down in midair, Jin grinned widely with his hands behind his head. “I am sorry. I didn't expect to startle you.”

 

Bringing his power back under control, Touya released the icy barrier he had stretched over a good bit of the forest, prompting everything to go back to normal. “You know, it wouldn't hurt for you as well to work on your own abilities.” Relaxing his muscles and his mind, he made his way back to the house that they shared out in the surrounding forest. It was a one story, old-fashioned Japanese style house they had managed to find and make do with. “Just because we're out of the shinobi sect doesn't mean we can get lazy.”

 

Jin followed Touya within the house, chuckling playfully. “I know that.” Catching the paper just outside of their home, the wind master picked it up to bring inside before closing the front door. Tossing it on the wooden table they usually ate at, he made his way to the kitchen to grab a few things to make lunch knowing Touya was probably hungry, and he was as well. “Besides, I still plan on beating Yusuke whenever he comes back down for another fight!” Here he grinned playfully once more, clanging a few pots and pans together to get everything situated.

 

“Then you better train,” Touya remarked, grabbing himself water to drink before sitting down to look at the demon news. Seeing the ads involving the human slaves, he couldn't help but turn his nose up at the article mentioning it. “Auctioning off humans,” he grumbled between the two of them. “What they are doing is wrong.”

 

Hearing about the humans, Jin turned around to look at the page Touya had tossed to the side. Leaving the ramen he was making to sit, he picked up the article to glance it over to see some of the humans in shackles and nothing but their undergarments to give demons a good idea about what they looked like unclothed as sex sold. “I guess somehow demons caught onto the slave trade we helped bust for Koenma.”

 

“I guess so,” Touya mumbled, as he was contently reading while taking a sip of his water here and there. “Who knows what even happened to all those humans. I know the blond one we rescued years ago smelled like she had demon blood. I think they injected her with something.”

 

Gazing at the many images of the female and male humans he couldn't help but feel a bit bad for them. “They look so sad.” Jin's blue eyes continued to scan the pages, reading what the trade was all about. “I mean, it doesn't look so bad, I guess. They are taking some humans and giving them better homes.”

 

Touya looked slowly up at Jin, wondering if his partner was serious in what he just said. “Jin, I know you have your moments, but let me explain this simply—,” Touya put down his paper he was reading, folding his hands in front of him. “—Those humans are dragged down here from Human World, beaten, and drugged up so they will perform any tricks. Each one is forced to look good for being auctioned or sold. They are not put in any better situation.” The ice master picked back up his paper to continue reading, hoping that got through his partner's head.

 

Jin never held humans in high regard before the Makai Tournament that happened a while ago. It was then he saw the human race as not all bad. “Why don't we just rescue one?”

 

“Jin, that's not how things work—.”

 

“Just one!” Jin interjected quickly. “Just one? I find humans to be rather entertaining after spending time with Yusuke from time to time.” When he saw Touya not budging from the idea, he leaned in a bit with a bit of a cheesy grin. “Please? I have the money!”

 

Grumbling at Jin's persistent behavior, he looked up at him irritably. “You do realize in doing this all you're doing is aiding the slave trade, right?” Truth be known, he had little desire in having a human around their house.

 

A sad frown overtook Jin's smile. Slinking down in his seat, he tried his best to put forth his perspective. “But one life saved is a life saved regardless, right? Better to save one then let that one die with the rest.”

 

Touya sighed, relaxing back in his chair. “You're not going to let me win this, are you?” The ice master knew he was going to be defeated regardless. Jin was always eager to have people see it his way. “I will think on it. Maybe having someone for you to watch over will do you some good. You might get back into training.”

 

Jin smiled at the hope Touya would consider it. Removing himself from the table, he made his way back to the kitchen to pull the pot of ramen off of the stove. “At any rate, I have food ready,” he said with a chuckle.

 

“Just glad it isn't burned this time,” Touya teased, turning the page of the newspaper to skim over the rest of it.

 

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When night overcame the Demon World, most of the humans in the cages got silence, as they were resting off the abuse they often endured to be `trained'. Gwenevere watched closely as the lights went off and no more demons were in the area. Looking up and down the hallway just to make sure, Gwenevere moved her slender arm through the crisscrossing wires, which formed her cage to search desperately for the latch that held her cage door shut. The tips of her fingers just gracing the tip of the latch, she moved closer to the cage to try and get a better grip on her means of escaping.

 

Sliding the latch as she had witnessed it done on other cages, Gwenevere never thought the sound of a creaking door would be so relieving. Pulling her arm back through the fence, she quietly began to sneak out into the open hallway lined with the cages. Hurrying towards the cage Jade was locked within, she grabbed onto the latch to try and open it. The sound of the door about to open woke Jade quickly.

 

“Gwen!” She hissed in a low whisper. “What are you doing! You're going to get us both in trouble!”

 

Opening the door all the way, she waved for Jade to follow her. “Come on! I am getting us out of here!” When her friend refused to move, she reached in and grabbed her wrist to pull her from where she was lying. “Just be quiet and move quickly.”

 

“What about everyone else?” Jade asked, stopping midway to the door. She looked out at all the other exhausted slaves that smelled of their own blood. “We can't just leave them here.”

 

“They will be fine!” Gwenevere insisted, pulling on Jade's arm in hopes of making her friend hurry. “What help can we possibly be anyways? If we escape, maybe we can find someone! Now, come on!”

 

Jade finally moved from where she was standing, hurrying to the door with Gwenevere in the lead. Upon making it to the exiting door, she looked through the small window to check the other side. “Nobody is there that I can see of,” she whispered between the two of them, hastily turning the doorknob. With the door opened, she waved Gwenevere through. “Go! Go!”

 

Going through the doorway, she paused just outside to look down the long corridor filled with a few windows and doors to different rooms. All the lights were off, except for the very last one window on the right. “Someone is in here,” she whispered between them. “But that door might be our way of escaping.” Taking in a shaky breath, she held onto Jade's hands. “We have to run…as fast as we can.”

 

Nodding, Jade held onto Gwenevere's sweating palms tightly. “I am ready,” she whispered breathlessly. “On the count of three, we run. One…two…three!”

 

Hearing that word, Gwenevere quickly took off down the hall with Jade behind her. Breathing heavily, she felt like the door was getting further and further out of reach regardless how fast she ran. Reaching her hand out when she felt she was getting close enough, the doors behind them opened up to have two demons surface to grab Jade quickly. “Jade!” Gwenevere yelled when she heard Jade scream at being restrained.

 

“Go! GO!” Jade just yelled over Nobu trying to keep her still.

 

Seeing Yuki heading towards her, Gwenevere panicked as she rushed towards the last door in the hallway. Having the demon grab her just as her hand had touched the doorknob, she struggled and fought against the lizard demon. “Hold still!” The demon growled, trying his best to restrain the hostile human. When Gwenevere and Jade both refused to remain calm, he yelled loudly. “HARU!”

 

The last door, which had a light shining through the window, opened to reveal a normal looking demon with elf ears. His wild, long black hair almost covered his eyes when he gazed over at the situation. He wore a white coat that looked like a doctor's coat, which had his nametag on it. Diving back into his office, he resurfaced with a syringe. “Hold her still!” Haru demanded, grabbing onto Gwenevere's legs to make sure that she didn't kick him. When he managed to get the feisty woman to remain still, he managed to get the needle within her upper left arm.

 

Gwenevere hated needles. The feel of the prick made her scream like it was torture. “Stop! Stop!” She begged over and over. Suddenly, it felt like exhaustion overtook her. Without any strength to fight back, Gwenevere collapsed within Yuki's arms.

 

“How did these two get out!” Tokukami yelled angrily down the hall, prompting everyone to turn around to see the owner.

 

“Sorry, sir,” Yuki apologized on everyone's behalf. “We just caught them running down the hallway to the door. We were lucky we caught them before they managed to escape.”

 

“That's enough out of you!” The goblin like demon demanded with a wave of his finger. He made his way over towards Jade to move some of her pink side bangs out of her face to get a better look at her. “Cage them back up,” he said, moving his fingers ideally about her strands of hair, as the woman was out cold as well from the same injection. “If these two escape again, let me know. Someone film them too. We don't need them escaping into that Spirit Detective's hands.” With a snap of his fingers, he made his way back to his own room.

 

For the coming nights, Jade and I still worked on trying to escape. Each time, we almost got closer but to no avail. Eventually, they changed the locks on our cages, so we could no longer release the latch. A padlock was now keeping me from escaping to my friend. To know my best friend was being put through unspeakable tortures like I was made me sick and enraged inside. Whenever they would try to feed me, I was always too angry to accept.

 

09/2009

 

Tokukami stopped in front of Gwenevere's cage with a disapproving scowl. “This one won't eat?” He knelt down in front of Gwenevere's cage with an annoyed sigh.

 

“Not one bite,” Haru responded. “Her food has been just sitting in her cage rotting.” Here he pointed at the padlock. “Open it. I want to take a look at her.”

 

“Just make sure she doesn't try to escape again.” Pulling out the key, Tokukami began to work on releasing the lock. “If she does, it is on your head.” With the padlock's lock released, he slowly moved the chain to open the door for the doctor.

 

Haru scoffed a bit at what little Tokukami knew about humans. “She is too weak to escape.” Moving the door aside, Haru ducked under the entryway to move slowly towards Gwenevere, who was hunched up into the corner of the cage looking like a mess. “She hasn't eaten anything decent in a week. I doubt she is truly running on anything.” When he got close enough, he watched as Gwenevere crawled to the other side of the cage to avoid him. “Come here, you stubborn beast.” Grabbing the chain linking to her neck shackle, he tugged on it to get Gwenevere to stop moving from him.

 

Gwenevere didn't have it within her to fight, as Haru predicted. She threatened to open her mouth to say something, but the fear of being hit prompted her to quickly bite her lip.

 

Haru looked all over Gwenevere's body to try and find a reason why she would stop eating. His fingers worked away at her stomach to see if there might possibly be anything there that would cause her to stop eating. “There is no excuse that I can see that she would suddenly stop eating. She seems perfectly fine to me.” Resting his arm on his thigh, he shook his head to show he was confused. “Why won't you eat, human?”

 

Even if she was being spoken to, she was hesitant about opening her mouth. Without speaking, Gwenevere looked over at Jade's cage. She was confused as to how these creatures could possibly be doing such a thing to her and those around her.

 

Tokukami followed Gwenevere's gaze to see her staring at Jade's location. “Hmm, for the past few times they have tried to escape, she always did take that one with her.” He nodded over his shoulder at where Jade was located. “Obviously the two know one another.”

 

“Well then, if they knew one another, it would be wise to cage them together.” Haru slowly rose to his feet, brushing the straw off of his body. “If you cage people like that apart, they will do whatever it takes to get back with each other. And I doubt you want to lose what investments you put into either one of them.” Removing himself from Gwenevere's cage with his belongings, he walked over towards Jade's cage to find her lying over to rest. “I can help you move this one without her trying anything cute.” Opening the padlock with Tokukami's key, Haru stepped inside quietly so as not to disturb the resting human. Placing his hand onto the side of her head to keep her settled, he quickly injected her neck with a medicine that made it impossible for her to move much of her muscles.

 

Jade merely squirmed for a moment only to have it kick in quickly to relax her body. With her unable to find the energy to attack, she was easily picked up from where she was caged and moved.

 

Haru opened the cage door belonging to Gwenevere to move Jade inside. “If this is what you've been after, here.” He placed Jade's body down on the hay in the center of the cage. “You got what you wanted, so I would advise not trying to run away again.” With him outside of the cage, he wiped his hands of the human smell he could scent on them. “By the way, with it being so cold, I would advise to bundle that one up.” He nodded towards Gwenevere. “She is really chilly from what I could tell, and without much weight on her body, more clothing layers is advised.”

 

Gwenevere watched as Jade was given back to her. Crawling forwards carefully, she pulled the unconscious woman towards her to the back of the cage. When the doctor left her enclosure, she growled within the back of her throat. “You won't keep us here forever,” she finally spoke up.

 

Tokukami stopped in his footsteps with a bit of a scoff at her words. “Good luck, my dear. If you get bought and sold, you'll be saying goodbye to this life, sure, but hello to another one that might be either good or bad for you.” Locking her door once more, he made it back out the room with the doctor behind him.

 

I was trying to keep Jade feeling assured that everything would be okay though I leaned on her a lot more considering her strength. We saw people come and go that had been trained with us, and some of the masters were none too friendly to begin with just as we were taught to believe. I prayed to myself that Jade and I would find a way out of there together as I promised her every night I would, until he came…

 

10/2009

 

Jin walked ahead of Touya as the two followed behind the demon that had all the information on each human he ordered to be trafficked down to Makai to be willing slaves for demons who needed one. Touya couldn't help but shake his head at what he saw since he didn't like the fate that befell these humans, though Jin's intentions to have one were as pure as a newborn child—being the child like demon he was.

 

“Okay,” the green skinned and black haired demon remarked, getting out his clipboard. “We have slaves of all ages, size, gender, and origin. So which one do you want dealing with age—ten to fifteen, fifteen to twenty, twenty to thirty and so on. The limit in the age group is fifty. So, which age group?”

 

Jin looked at each human female and male before snapping back at the man's question. “Umm, it won't matter to me so long as they are not too young or too old.”

 

“Alright then.” Pulling the pen from its cap with his teeth, Tokukami marked down the age group he felt would be perfect since the demon was being vague. Taking the cap from his teeth and placing it on the end of the pen he was using, he continued walking down the aisle until stopping in the middle area where the twenty some things where. “If there is one thing I have learned from this type of business, it's that rebellious humans will attempt to escape more than once and or attack and bite. But when it comes to the depressed, abused humans, they may not fight or run much but they will try to kill themselves so I would hide the pointy objects from them. You said you came here looking for one to just be a pet, right?”

 

“That's right,” Jin answered eyeing the many cages about him that had one human in them per cage for some reason.

 

“Then I would say the depressed ones would be best for you since they will be grateful for your affection from the beatings they used to receive from their parents,” Tokukami explained before writing down a bit more on his sheet he had before him. At the mere mention of the beatings, he couldn't help but grin a bit himself seeing as he knew what they did to the humans. He never would indulge that information to the two ninjas he was showing around, as they appeared to be part of the lighter circle of demons.

 

Touya's eyes continued to wander with Jin's even though he despised this type of illegal dealing, and he couldn't believe Jin was offering to help them thrive in business even if his friend's intentions were anything short of cruel. Looking at the separated slaves, his narrow eyes eventually landed on Jade and Gwenevere who were locked within the same pen unlike those around them. “Why are these two locked up together?” Touya asked, pointing to them.

 

Hearing the three talking nearby and now discussing the two human's predicament, Jade and Gwenevere both looked up at the towering demons that soon came over to their pen with the ring leader of this human salve business. Gwenevere kept Jade's head within her lap, running her fingers through her coffee colored hair strands before looking up a moment at the demons she feared would chose one of them now.

 

“These two?” Tokukami questioned, coming over to the pen with the two shoppers. “We put them in the same cage because they know one another, and if we separated them, it causes problems with us. The one lying down is Jade and the one sitting upright is Gwenevere.”

 

Jin looked over at the two and noticed that the one sitting up had many articles of clothing on, making her seem large in size. The one lying down was wearing just a sweatshirt and torn jeans that were dirty from the long haul of the training she possibly endured. “Is the one named Gwenevere fat? She looks somewhat—large.”

 

Looking up from his clipboard for a moment since he was hunting for their information, the green skinned demon shook his head. “No, no. Don't let that look on her fool you. She is wearing three layers of clothing because of the winter season, and it makes her look overweight. Ha—here we are!” He replied, referring to the papers on the two in that cage.

 

Opening up the cage door a moment, Tokukami grabbed onto their wrists to pull them up so the two demons could look at the two humans. Jade and Gwenevere were roughly pushed out of the cage door to stand side by side a moment before being humiliatingly undressed before the strangers around them by the demons that guarded their cage.

 

“See?” Tokukami replied showing off Gwenevere's normal frame. “I will read off a bit of their information and see what you like. Okay, this is Gwenevere Johnson. Age is twenty-one and she was born February twenty-second and weighs a 115 pounds. She is 5'5 in height, and comes from South Carolina in the United States. She is right handed, a virgin with a hymen, a 34B in bust, and is also half blind in her right eye so watch out when you come at her from that side. Like a clueless beast, she spooks easily if she doesn't see you coming.” To demonstrate it, Tokukami walked over to the woman's right side a moment to try and reach for her from that side, forcing the woman to turn her whole head to watch him and jerk slightly since she couldn't see him from the right side. “She is white as you can see, green eyes, and brown hair. She was abused growing up verbally and physically in her younger years and has gone through depression trips, meaning she stops eating from time to time depending. Her favorite food is Italian and she loves salmon and steaks and anything dealing with chocolate.”

 

I felt like I was on a twisted dating show of some kind now that I heard all of the information said aloud that they gathered when interrogating us. I kept my head down though not wishing to keep it up, though the demons that watched Jade's and my cage forced it up so that I could be seen from head to toe. They wanted to make sure that we were seen at our `finest' stature.

 

10/2009

 

Walking over to the human opposite to Gwen, Tokukami placed his hand upon Jade's shoulder now. “This is Jade Truman from Tennessee in the United States. Age is twenty-three and she was born March fourth and her sexual preference is straight. She stands at 5'7 in height and weighs 125 pounds. Jade is right handed, a virgin with a hymen as well, a 38B in bust, and she also has scars on her front.”

 

Jade was trying to conceal the scars she had on her body, not wishing to show them off until Tokukami ordered the demon close to her to pry her hands off of her figure and to force her to stand upright. She hated those scars and the longest one down the center that ran from just below her breasts down to her stomach area.

 

“It looks like something tore right into her,” Touya remarked, pressing his index finger gently against the scar in the center forcing Jade to flinch from his abnormally cold touch. “Did a demon get to her?”

 

“No, very bad car accident in 2002,” the demon clarified from the papers before him. “She went through anorexia and nearly died from it for three years. She was claimed such in the year 2000. She is a bit better with eating so don't worry about that. But be careful, because she has problems around her stomach area and her flanks give her issues because of her surgeries she suffered. She is white with brown hair and fuchsia strands near her face with sapphire colored eyes. She is a vegetarian so that is saying about what you should feed her though she loves a good bit of fish here and there. Anyways, you can read over all the other detailed info on them both if you want to.”

 

Touya looked to Jin since it was his decision on who to pick. He was obviously going to take one or the other since both fascinated him but he knew, with how expensive they were he could only take one. Grabbing gently onto Gwenevere's chin, he lifted her face up to look into her eyes and even open her mouth to look at her teeth. “What about their periods? When do they bleed?” The wind demon asked, noticing that Gwen's teeth were not perfectly straight but not horribly out of shape.

 

“Gwenevere bleeds towards the end of the month and quite heavily, and Jade bleeds lightly and sporadically thanks to her anorexia she suffered so, she's unpredictable,” Tokukami replied flipping through the papers on his clipboard still. “We're trying to stabilize it best we can with medicine.”

 

When the demon finished eyeing the two over, he stepped back a moment to look at them side by side. “I'll take this one,” Jin answered, placing his hand firmly on Gwenevere's shoulder.

 

I felt my heart sink—I couldn't leave Jade alone, because I loved her and had been with her for what felt like years. But, now that I look at it, I guess I didn't want to go, because I felt she depended on me as I did her to remain sane and happy. Without her, I was nothing, and I didn't want someone like her to suffer down her in Hell with a master that could possibly kill her.

 

10/2009

 

The demon closes to Gwen grabbed onto her arm to pull the overwhelmed woman away from her counterpart causing the girl to struggle suddenly, begging not to be chosen. “No,” she begged aloud nearing tears. “Don't take me! Don't let me go!” She kicked and struggled against the demon that held her by her arms to keep her from attacking anybody. “No! JADE!”

 

Jin wanted to assure her that it would be okay and that she would have a nice place to stay away from where she was, but didn't have the chance as the startled human was drug further away to the operating room.

“Oookay,” Tokukami said, finishing off whatever it was he was writing on. “We are just going to take her in the back and operate on her. Give her a demon's heart so she cannot be identified as human or be taken away from you. While in the process of such, which will take a day or so, you will get her belongings we took from Human World, and you can sort through those as you see fit.” Tearing off the paper he had obviously been doodling on for awhile, Tokukami handed it over to Jin along with his clipboard and pen. “Just sign there and we will give you her information and belongings.”

 

Jin took the clipboard and pen before switching his sight over at Jade who was none too happy of watching her friend being torn from her. Creasing his brow in worry at what would become of her without Gwenevere by her side Jin tried to assure himself it would be alright in the end as he put down his name on the dotted line.

 

Taking back the clipboard and signature on Gwenevere's papers, Tokukami approved it before whispering to a nearby helper demon to get the woman's belongings that they had held in another room. “Alright, she is all yours. You just have to pay 50,000 dollars for her, and we're all set. I am also going to give you a neck shackle for her so you can engrave her name on it and wrist and ankle shackles that are chained together so she cannot run away if she tries. As I said earlier, it's rare for someone like her to attempt to but she may with Jade here and in which case, you might want to chain her down if necessary. It's encouraged with someone like her.”

 

Touya looked up at Jin before rubbing his back to get his partner's attention. “Are you sure you want to do this?”

 

Looking at his friend through his shaggy, wild, red hair, Jin nodded while waiting for the items they would need. “She will have a happy home, so at least that if anything—right?”