Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Ice Meets Wind ❯ Jin ( Chapter 2 )

Okay, in the last chapter Touya's past was reveled. In this one, Jin's is reveled. Warning: His past is a little weird (Timeline wise). I got the impression that he's centuries old, but this chapter takes place in the modern day. Sorry, but YYH gang is in the future here, in my tale, at least. Jin is about 15, and he's 2 years older than Touya. You do the math. Also, I can't write an Irish accent, but Jin always has had the accent, so imagine him speaking it. Got any questions, ask. May the chappie begin!

Disclaimer: Why do I bother with these things? Me no own.

Chapter 2: Jin

School was in session in Tokyo, so the streets were cleared of all the usual school children. Well, most of the usual school children. A lone red head was walking slowly down the street, muttering to himself. He was obviously walking as slow as possible so he wouldn't get to school too soon.
"Why'd we have to move here? I don't even like it here. Only reason I'm going to school is 'cause mom kicked me out of the house," said the red- head in a thick Irish accent. He finally stopped his slow pace in front of a gray building. "Ugh. Here I am. Still don't wanna be here." Still muttering to himself, he opened the door and walked in.

The class room was noisy with the freshmen students' chatter. They didn't even notice the new kid walk in and start talking with the teacher. They finally did stop when the teacher stood up and shouted for them to be quiet.
"Now, class," said Mr. Himaku. "We have ourselves a new student today. This is Jin Hatsui," he gestured towards the red head standing by him. "Jin has lived his entire life in Ireland, but he and his parents moved to Tokyo because of work. I hope you will make him feel welcome, because this is most likely a very difficult transition."
Jin stood up front for a minute after Mr. Himaku's speech before turning to the teacher and asking, "Where do I sit?"
The class giggled at his accent, causing Jin to blush as red as his hair.
"Now, now, don't make fun of him." Mr. Himaku said to the class. He said to Jin, "There is an open seat by Akira Iguin." He pointed to a bulky boy over by the windows. Jin nodded and went to his seat.
"So, Lucky," said Akira, looking down on Jin, who was rather scrawny. "Ya got any gold hidden in that bag of yours?"
"Huh?" Jin asked, not paying much attention until his bag was taken from him. "Hey! Give that back!" Jin jumped out of his chair and tried to get his bag back. He was shorter than Akira, so, needless to say, all Akira had to do was hold his bag up a little higher so Jin couldn't get it. Akira began to laugh at how pathetic Jin was looking, hopping up and down trying to get his bag. When Jin hit the ground for the fifth time, he crouched down. Concentrating, he gave one last jump. This time, he caught Akira by surprise, for his jump was abnormally high for someone of his stature. Jin seized this chance and grabbed his bag out of his torturer's hands. Leaping over Akira's head, Jin landed on the floor about 10 feet away from Akira. Turning, Jin saw the look on his teacher's and all of his classmates faces. It was one of pure shock, and.
Is that a look of fear on their faces? Jin thought, suddenly scared. No! Not again! I don't want to scare people away from me! Giving a small, stupid grin at his classmates, Jin said rather hurriedly, "Lots of track practice got me good at jumping. Oh! Look at the time! I almost forgot, I have to go home early and help unpack!" with that, he ran out of the room. Jin continued to run until he got home, which was miles away. At some point, he began to cry.

Morgana was sitting in the living room of her new home. Sighing, she relaxed into her favorite chair. Maybe this wasn't such a good idea to move here. she thought sadly. No one would accept her son back in Ireland because of his abnormal speed and agility. All the kids were jealous of him, and some were even scared. It had made Jin increasing more depressed as time went on, so Morgana had convinced Utaku to move here. Now she was having her doubts.
Utaku, Jin's father and Morgana's husband of 17 years, was a full fledged human. Hn. A human. Figures I'd fall for a full fledged human. she thought in an ironic tone. Morgana herself was not fully human. She was a half demon elf from the Demon Realm. She had been raised there, but left for her sanity and safety. When she arrived in the Human World, she met Utaku and eventually married him. Morgana knew that having children would be a bad idea, because they would be a quarter demon elf.
Morgana suddenly sighed. Jin's powers were obvious from the start. They've only been getting stronger, and he has no idea. She was interrupted from her musings by the slamming of the front door.
"Who's there?" she called. Morgana got out of her comfortable chair and went to the door. What she saw shocked her. Jin was curled up against the door, crying. His hair blowing about in a breeze she could not feel.

Jin had run out of the building and down the streets of downtown Tokyo. His house was outside the city, and he usually had to take the bus to get to and from home. Today, though, he passed up the bus and continued to run. Jin attracted some strange looks as he sped through the streets. His red hair and his abnormal speed was more than enough to draw curious glances. Ignoring them, he ran on, never stopping.
It took Jin almost an hour and a half to get to his new home. When he spotted the cottage by the cliffs, he sped up even more. Jin raced through the woods that surrounded his home and leaped onto his drive way. He kept running until he reached his door. Jin slowed down just enough to fling the door open and then pull it shut behind him. Exhausted, and thoroughly depressed because of the incident at school, Jin collapsed against the door frame and cried. There was still wind in his hair, seeming to be trying to comfort him. Wind? Comfort me? I'm so losing it. He continued to cry even when his mother came up and held him close to her.
"Shh, Jin," she said, her alto voice holding the same accent as her son's, "What happened?"
"It happened again," Jin managed to say through sobs. "I don't know how, but I jumped over some kid's head. He had grabbed my bag, and I wanted it back. He kept holding it high above me, and I got fed up, so I just." his voice trailed off in a fresh wave of tears. Morgana held Jin closer to her.
"It's all right, everything will be just fine." she whispered to Jin. "I'm sure once they see how fun you are to be around, they'll accept you."
"I wish," he muttered into his mother's shirt. "Mom, why am I like this? I don't want to be different."
The utter despair in his voice wrenched Morgana's heart. She had never told her son or husband about her ancestry, but she couldn't keep it from them forever. Especially at the cost of Jin's happiness. "Now Jin, I want you to listen to me." but before she could continue, they both heard Utaku's car in the driveway. "Let's move away from the door so our asses don't get hit by it." Finally getting a laugh out of Jin, they both moved away from the door and sat on the stairs.
Utaku was an all Japanese man with black hair and dark brown eyes. Jin looked nothing like him, because Jin took after his mother. Utaku saw them on the stairs when he opened the door.
"Hello, everyone!" he said cheerily. Then he checked his watch, "Hey, Jin. Aren't you still supposed to be in school?" he asked severely.
"Jin had some problems in school, so he came home early," Morgana said simply, trying to keep Jin out of his father's wrath.
"What?!" he practically screamed, "Did you get in a fight?" Jin shook his head no, and then Utaku understood. "I told you to keep your abilities in check! Maybe if you actually listened to me, you'd never have problems like this!"
Utaku would have continued to rant, if Morgana hadn't cut in. "I have something to tell the both of you. Let's go to the kitchen table, and I'll tell you everything."

"Well, what is it you wish to tell us about?" Utaku asked. That man is incredibly impatient, even by demon standards. thought Morgana. The whole family was now sitting at the kitchen table, Utaku looking bored and outraged, Jin looking slightly confused.
"Ok, I wanted to tell you that I think I know why Jin has been having these problems. And I should have told you it a while ago," Jin's eyes widened at that statement.
"W-what? You know?!" he asked excitedly. "Then maybe it can be-" his father cut him off.
"Morgana, how dare you keep secrets from me? How many other things have you kept from the two of us?" When he said 'two of us', he really meant himself only, not Jin.
"Honestly, be patient. I have kept many secrets from the both of you for your own good. Just, please let me say one before I start another, alright?" Jin nodded, and Utaku gave a snort and looked away. "Ok, as you both know, I met Utaku in Ireland. I said I had lived there my whole life, and he bought it because he was there on business. In truth, I had only just arrived. My original home was far away from Ireland, far away from this world, as a matter of fact. I am a half-elf from the Makai; the Demon World."
"Wait," Jin said slowly. "You're a demon? Then what am I, half demon?"
"That is correct," Morgana smiled at her son. "Your much smarted than a vast majority of them. Be proud."
"WHAT?!" Utaku knocked over his chair in a fit of rage. "I married a demon?!"
"Well, a demon in human form. I left the Makai to save my sanity. Things were just too chaotic there. Any way, back to my theory about Jin," she patiently waited for Utaku to sit down before she continued. "Jin, as he has already figured out, is half demon. One quarter elf, and one quarter, um, something else. I never knew my father, so I only know one half of my ancestry. Anyway, demon elves are known for their abilities to control the elements. I think Jin takes on more of the elf side, and that his specialty element is the wind.
"Having the wind as an element gives Jin a huge advantage over others. One specialty would be that he can run faster, due to the fact the wind does not resist him. It actually pushes him along. Another ability the wind bestows is the ability to jump abnormally high. In fact, true masters can even fly."
"Cool!!" Jin shouted, His face now shining with excitement at the possibilities. Morgana laughed at her son's antics. Nothing can keep his spirits down for too long. Utaku, however, was not amused.
"You lied to me, to us!!" he shouted. The laughter of Morgana died and Jin immediately sat down. "So you're a demon. No surprise, considering how you manipulated all of us!!"
"Now, Utaku, really, it was for your own good."
"I don't care! I had the right to know!" Utaku slammed his hands down on the table. Jin had never seen his dad so angry, and it was scaring him. "Now you tell me our son, no, your son, is half demon, and the reason he's been like this is due to his powers maturing!"
"Dad, calm down," Jin said in a small voice. Utaku turned to Jin, causing his son to cower lower into his chair.
"Demon, you are not my son! If I had a son, he would at least be normal! Not some monster like you," Then Utaku did the unthinkable. He slapped Jin, hard. So hard, in fact, Jin fell to the floor. Morgana, now in a complete stage of shock, knelt down on the floor to check on her son.
"Utaku, you're going too far!" Then she whispered to Jin, "It's no longer safe here as long as he is around. Please, leave here for your own safety. Right now, I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to kill you. Go, run!"
"Love you, mom."
"Love you too, Jin, now go!"
Jin didn't waste another minute. Heeding his mothers' advice, he bolted for the door.
"Demon! I'm not done with you yet!" Utaku ran out of the room and into another one, intent on getting something.
Jin ignored him, and he ran out into the woods by his home. When he was about fifty feet in, he heard a gunshot. Stopping dead in his tracks, he turned and looked at the open door to the kitchen.
Jin saw his father with his rifle pointing down at the floor, right where Jin had left his mother. "Mom," he whispered as his dad came to the door. His own father fired several shots that just missed Jin's head. Now in a sheer panic, Jin turned and ran as far as he possibly could. Several gunshots zinged by him as he continued to run full out. Jin looked back to see Utaku several yards behind him. In that short of a time, however, Jin reached the cliffs at the end of the woods.
Skidding to a halt, he carefully looked over the edge. About 300 feet up, maybe more, he thought. BANG! Another gunshot ricocheted off the rocks by Jin's feet. Looking back one more time, he saw that Utaku had now right behind him, the rifle aimed at Jin's chest.
"Now die," Utaku said, his voice full of rage and hate. Without thinking, Jin jumped over the edge of the cliff.

Jin never hit the water or rocks that were below the cliff. Instead, Jin landed in a snow covered valley. Gingerly, he got up, rubbing his head.
"Ow," he looked around him. "Where the hell am I?"
Suddenly, Jin felt a large surge of energy rise up within him. It was painful, as though his body was meting and then rebuilding itself. He cried out in both alarm and in pain.
Jin first felt his body lengthen in a sudden, white hot stretch. It felt as though he was being pulled like taffy. He could feel his bones stretch, weaken, and then re-strengthen, as though nothing had happened. His clothes were too small in some places, and ripped. Some bits of cloth did stay, mainly around his torso and hips. Next he felt something push out of the skin on his head. It felt pointy, and seemed to be made of bone itself. He also felt his ears lengthen and his hearing got sharper. Jin could now here ever crack of twig, and every step in the muffling snow. Jin could feel his hair lengthen and begin to tickle the nape his neck and the sides of his face.
The entire transformation could not have taken more than one minute, maybe two, but for Jin it lasted and eternity. When it was all said and done, Jin was no longer the puny little boy who he had woken up as. He had gotten taller, stronger, and, he felt, more powerful than ever before. Jin starred wide eyed at his now muscular arms, felt his ears, and discovered what the piece of bone on his head was. A horn.
Wha-? before he could think another thought, a complete and total exhaustion swept over him. Swaying on his feet, Jin sat slowly down on the freezing cold ground. Shaking from the exhaustion and cold, he felt the darkness closing in. After only a brief battle, he gave in to it. He was too cold and tired to care. Jin collapsed on the ground and did not move, even after the blizzard hit the area.

Well, there it is! Jin's tale. Now, who will help our poor little wind master out of his predicament? Heh! I'm not telling! Yes, I know Jin's dad was a little, um, psychotic, maybe? However, I did some research (yes, I research murders and human psyche in my spare time. Got a problem? I love death and the human mind) and I found out that on occasion, a person will snap if they feel betrayed or used. It can result in murders and suicides. Jin's dad was normal, but the shock of having a wife who was a demon and a son who was half demon was too much for him, so, snap. Read and Review, love to hear from ya. Oh yeah, the author's note applies to every chapter in this story. At least until I have some spare time.