Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Don't Touch Me ❯ Rising from the Ashes ( Chapter 1 )

Averon - I managed to lose Hiei, so here's the next chapter. I don't know when he'll find me……

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Rising from the Ashes

Perhaps I shall……….

But there is another listening to my thoughts!!?

I sense the others mind……..

I wonder why they're listening. Oh well…… If they wish to tell me they shall, but not till then…. Darn….

The ugly ningen is staring at me!...… Why won't he look away?!! I did nothing to him!! If he doesn't turn around……

Three…..

Two…..

ZAP!!!!

He'll wake up in a few hours…… If he wakes at all…..

The princeling looked up from his list and shrugged. The others reactions are quite similar. Interesting……

I'll answer more of your question now, and it will be through my eyes. The only reason the beginning wasn't was because to me it seems a dream…… Unreal and far away……

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"AHHHH!!!!" I yelled as the bell to get up rang. My mother laughed, she always did.

`One of these days I'll find that bell.' I thought darkly as I got out of bed. I hated that stupid thing.

I stretched and walked over to the table as my mother put my breakfast on it. It was excellent. My mother was a great cook. That's probably why she worked in the kitchen….

"Thanks, Mommy!" I said as I kissed her cheek.

"No problem, little one. I love cooking." She smiled at me.

Another bell rang and I jumped. `I will find that thing.' I turned to go to the nursery.

I felt a hand on my shoulder and I turned to face my mom.

"Not today, Honey. It's inspection day." She told me. I cheered and took her hand. She guided me to the inspection hall.

When we got there I wondered why I had cheered. This was boring!! It was different, but a five year old can only stand still so long….

After what felt like hours; in reality, probably 5 minutes, the lord walked in. All the children knew him by sight, we all loved him. He was so nice to us. He gave us candy and toys.

All the slaves bowed to him and he chuckled. "Stand up, I've never told you any of you to bow to me." He gave us candy and toys.

He walked up and down the line a few times then said, "You all look fine! I guess my overseers are alright after all." He smiled a smile that didn't reach his eyes, than walked over to me. "Would you like a special treat?" He asked a little too kindly.

My eyes widened and I nodded eagerly. He smiled that same smile then addressed my mother, "She will be back with you by the last bell. Don't worry."

At that he took my hand and I followed him through the castle. He showed me many things, the gardens, the towers, and the lake on the third floor. Eventually he took me to his private rooms.

"How did you like seeing your entire home? Few get the privilege." He asked me.

"It was so cool!!" I laughed, "I never dreamed all that stuff was there! How come the gardens are so perfect? How is there a lake on the third floor? Wait…" I said, mischievously "why didn't you show me where the bell is? I've always wanted to see it."

He watched me with a slight smile on his face and a strange glint in his eye, but he still laughed at my comment about the bell. I continued to babble, trying to please the lord. I was so naïve…. It's painful to remember…

He walked over to me. "How about another treat?" he asked, with the glint turning into more of a glow.

I cheered. Stupid me.

He picked me up and put me on his bed, then stared at me a moment. Smiling a real smile. All I could do was sit and wonder what he was going to give me.

All of a sudden he kissed me, but not like my mother did. I tried to scream but couldn't, his tongue was in my mouth.

He did things to me I wish to forget.

After he was done he ordered me to get dressed. He watched me as I did and smiled. There wasn't a mark on my body to show what he had done. Apparently I was a healer.

When I was dressed he sent me back to my room. I reached the door as the last bell rang and ran inside. My mother wasn't there yet, so I sat on my bed. My mind was blank. I think I was in shock… all I could do was stare at the wall.

My mother arrived minutes later and asked how my day had been. I stared at her a moment, then started to cry. I told her everything that happened from the second I was out of her sight till now. In detail.

When I finished she looked at me like I was crazy. She tried to logic it away, "If that had happened, you'd be hurt. You're fine Veya. I don't know how you came up with that, but you can stop lying!" She yelled at me. She called me a liar. She needed to understand.

"I'm not lying, Mommy! I'm telling the truth! Why would I lie?!" I was crying my eyes out as I screamed. I needed to make her believe me, or else something bad was going to happen. I could feel it.

"You're lying, Veya! You have to be!! Junaku is a good master! He wouldn't do anything like that!!!" She yelled, again.

"Why would I lie, Mommy! Why-" she slapped me. She slapped my cheek. Hard. My face was red. She refused to believe me. "I hate you." I said quietly, looking straight into her eyes. I meant it, too.

"You can stop telling lies and stop yelling!!" she hadn't heard my last comment.

I took a shuddering breath and spoke quietly, "I haven't lied, mother dear. I've never lied to you. In fact, I've never been more serious in my life. I hate you." I was shaking and my clenched fists were white.

She slapped me again. "Don't say things you don't mean!" she scolded, angrily.

"Oh, but I do mean it!" I snarled. She went to slap me again, but I grabbed her wrist. "Don't touch me!" I screamed at her, making my grip as tight as I could, trying to hurt her like she was hurting me.

My mother looked surprised, or rather shocked. Whether it was because of my grip on her wrist or the look in my eyes, I'll never know… She wrenched her arm away and went to hit me again. I completely lost control. When her hand touched my skin a shock when through her body and her hair stood on end. As she fell to the floor, her skin glowed with the electricity. She would never get back up. The shock had stopped her heart along with destroying various other organs. The first being I ever killed was my own mother.

I glanced at the corpse before running from the room crying. I didn't watch where I was going and kept falling, but eventually my feet carried me to the lake on the third floor where I collapsed in a soggy heap. After awhile, I heard footsteps approaching, but I didn't care. I was a five year old coming to terms with betrayal, what did it matter who was in there with me?

A hand touched my should gently. I flinched and tried to pull away. Then I heard the lord's voice, "Veya, what's wrong?" There was sarcasm dripping from his voice, and he thought I couldn't hear it.

With an effort I stopped crying and looked him in the eyes. Even with a good master, that was something a slave was never supposed to do. I could tell by the smug smile on his face that he knew that my mother was dead, and probably that I had killed her. "Don't call me that! Veya's dead! And don't touch me…" I growled.

"Don't be silly. You're Veya, and you don't look dead to me. Though, I guess if you don't want to be called by that name I'll call you something else. Have anything in mind?" He asked, treating me like a child with a crazy idea.

"Nirvana." I said quietly.

He laughed. The nerve! "Why, Nirvana's heaven. Oh, because that's where you feel like you are?" He was enjoying this far too much.

"No. Nirvana is the place after death, heaven or hell. It doesn't specify which. Where I sent Mommy. Where I'll send you." I snarled. Try as I might, I couldn't keep the hatred out of my voice.

Again he laughed. I suppose he thought I was joking. "No you won't. But I'll call you that, if that's what you really want. Your spirit will be broken soon enough." He ruffled my hair and left. He had just made a dangerous enemy.

"Fool. Veya's dead and I have risen from her ashes to avenge her soul. Junaku will die by my hand, and my hand alone. He will pay for what he's done. I will not be broken." I whispered as I stood up and walked to the edge of the water…

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Averon - MUUUUCH longer chapter. Good. I realize she didn't talk to you at the end, I guess she didn't feel like it. *shrugs*

Hiei - I know the feeling.

Averon - AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! *runs away*

Hiei - Hn. I suppose you should review before she gets back. If you don't, she might write more……